{"id":28813,"date":"2017-10-19T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=28813"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:30:05","slug":"download-the-arrl-review-of-the-icom-ic-r8600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/download-the-arrl-review-of-the-icom-ic-r8600\/","title":{"rendered":"Download the ARRL review of the Icom IC-R8600"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO), who notes that the recent ARRL review of the Icom IC-R8600 is available as a free download via Icom America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Click here to download (PDF).<\/a><\/p>\n

Note that Dave continuously updates his own review of the IC-R8600<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the tip, Dave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO), who notes that the recent ARRL review of the Icom IC-R8600 is available as a free download via Icom America. Click here to download (PDF). Note that Dave continuously updates his own review of the IC-R8600 as well. Thanks for the tip, Dave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,129,5803,43,154],"tags":[2011,2584,5374,5378,6439],"class_list":["post-28813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-reviews","category-scanners","category-shortwave-radio","category-shortwave-radio-reviews","tag-arrl","tag-dave-zantow-n9ewo","tag-ic-r8600","tag-icom-ic-r8600","tag-icom-ic-r8600-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7uJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27647,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/dave-reviews-the-icom-ic-r8600\/","url_meta":{"origin":28813,"position":0},"title":"Dave reviews the Icom IC-R8600","author":"Thomas","date":"August 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO) who writes: Just FYI. My Icom IC-R8600 \u201cWide Band\u201d Receiver Review is now available. Mind you this is subject to more updates than usual at least for awhile. 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Here is the best video yet showing the Icom IC-R8600\u2019s Sync Detector in use. Sounds like Icom \u201cfinally\u201d got the Sync Detector performance right with the R8600. 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