{"id":44406,"date":"2020-07-19T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44406"},"modified":"2020-07-19T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:03:08","slug":"new-icom-ic-705-videos-and-few-answers-to-your-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/new-icom-ic-705-videos-and-few-answers-to-your-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Icom IC-705 videos and few answers to your questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Icom-IC-705.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39392\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Icom-IC-705.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Icom-IC-705.jpg 597w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Icom-IC-705-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been getting a number of inquiries from readers lately about the new, yet-to-be-released, <strong>Icom IC-705<\/strong> QRP portable transceiver. Here are a few quick answers to frequent reader questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Will you review the IC-705?&#8221;<\/strong> Yes, I certainly will. If the loaner unit from Icom has a long lead time, I&#8217;ll plan to purchase one from the first production run and may sell it after the review. (Only since I already have *way* too many QRP transceivers!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;When will the IC-705 start shipping to customers?&#8221;<\/strong> That&#8217;s a tough one to answer and, of course, I have no affiliation with the manufacturer so really can&#8217;t comment. As we&#8217;ve mentioned before, IC-705 production like other products this year has been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on supply chains. I do know that Icom hopes to start shipping the IC-705 within the next few months. Availability may vary based on where you live since Icom has regional market headquarters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Does the IC-705 have an internal ATU?&#8221;<\/strong> No, it does not. However, Icom recently announced that they will produce an antenna tuner for the IC-705 with the model number <strong>AH-705<\/strong>. There are no details available at time of posting, but we must assume this is an external ATU.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Will it ship with a battery pack, or do we have to buy it separately?<\/strong>&#8221; The IC-705 will include a\u00a0 BP-272 Battery pack, HM-243 Speaker-microphone and OPC-2421 DC power cable.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>With a color touch screen display, won&#8217;t the IC-705 current drain be too much for operating on a battery?<\/strong>&#8221; Since I&#8217;m primarily a field operator, this was one of my first questions as well. Turns out, Icom has employ some agressive techniques to make that display as efficient as possible. Check out the promising numbers from their recently-published <a href=\"https:\/\/icomamerica.com\/en\/products\/amateur\/handheld\/705\/specifications.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">specifications page:<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IC-705-specs-current-drain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44407\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IC-705-specs-current-drain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IC-705-specs-current-drain.jpg 528w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IC-705-specs-current-drain-300x42.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Will the IC-705 double as a portable shortwave radio broadcast receiver?<\/strong>&#8221; The short answer is yes, but we have yet to actually put this general coverage transceiver to the test. What we do know is that the AM bandwidth can be widened to 6 kHz according to the specifications sheet. We also know that its receiver range is 0.030\u2013199.999 and 400.000\u2013470.000. The IC-705 will cover the entire AM broadcast (mediumwave) band and the entire HF\/shortwave spectrum with no gaps. How sensitive the IC-705 will be outside the ham radio bands remains to be seen.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Will the IC-705 include the 4 meter band?<\/strong>&#8221; I&#8217;ve gotten this question from a number of our UK readers. <strong>The answer is no<\/strong>. There were conflicting reports early on, but Icom UK posted <a href=\"https:\/\/icomuk.co.uk\/News_Article\/2\/2239\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this message<\/a> on May 29, 2020 noting: &#8220;<em>We regret to inform you that contrary to our earlier messages, the 70MHz (4 Metre) band will not be included in our much anticipated IC-705 QRP SDR transceiver.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Icom IC-705 Videos<\/h1>\n<p>A number of YouTube channels have been posting videos of pre-production IC-705 units in operation. Many thanks to a number of <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributors who&#8217;ve shared links to these.<\/p>\n<h3>Bob McCreadie (G0FGX) of TX Films via Icom UK<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L_7uAa-9blE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Ham Radio Concepts<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/33xO9_5pgLE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Amateur Logic: IC-705 Minimum Current Tweaks<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QOjRyVGnS8U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Do you enjoy the SWLing Post?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Please consider supporting us via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=7466002&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fswling.com%2Fblog%2F&amp;utm_medium=widget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u%3D7466002%26redirect_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fswling.com%252Fblog%252F%26utm_medium%3Dwidget&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534765144986000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEe7C7aRTKqwuFkU5YIo8XEqPqthw\"><span class=\"il\">Patreon<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=TGGFP2XVZDPP2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd%3D_s-xclick%26hosted_button_id%3DTGGFP2XVZDPP2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534765144986000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH45maBgVLGpqLmQQvviVKBNMEGUw\"><span class=\"il\">Coffee<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Fund<\/span><\/a>! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Your support makes articles like this one possible. 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If the loaner unit from Icom has a long lead time, I&#8217;ll plan to purchase one from [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,836,3,43],"tags":[7978,2884,7977,8675,8672,8674,8673,7981],"class_list":["post-44406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-new-products","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ic-705","tag-icom","tag-icom-ic-705","tag-icom-ic-705-4-meters","tag-icom-ic-705-atu","tag-icom-ic-705-availability","tag-icom-ic-705-current-drain","tag-icom-ic-705-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bye","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43349,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/icom-ic-705-international-availability\/","url_meta":{"origin":44406,"position":0},"title":"Icom IC-705 International Availability","author":"Thomas","date":"May 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"(Icom Press Release) Icom Inc. will begin to ship the IC-705, a new all mode portable transceiver covering HF, VHF and UHF, for the Japan domestic market from the middle of June 2020. 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Here's the announcement from Icom Japan: https:\/\/www.icom.co.jp\/news\/4720\/ The following is a machine translation of the announcement: \"Thank you very much for your patronage of ICOM products. 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I got home pretty late yesterday afternoon so haven't had a lot of time to put the IC-705 on the air. I did tune to the Voice of Greece and REE last night\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Icom-IC-705-Transceiver-Unboxing-1-300x258.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Icom-IC-705-Transceiver-Unboxing-1-300x258.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Icom-IC-705-Transceiver-Unboxing-1-300x258.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Icom-IC-705-Transceiver-Unboxing-1-300x258.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Icom-IC-705-Transceiver-Unboxing-1-300x258.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":39390,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/could-the-icom-ic-705-be-a-shortwave-listeners-holy-grail-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":44406,"position":3},"title":"Could the Icom IC-705 be a shortwave listener&#8217;s Holy Grail receiver?","author":"Thomas","date":"September 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I just published an announcement about the new Icom IC-705 portable transceiver, but omitted an important question for SWLing Post readers: How well could the IC-705 serve shortwave listeners and DXers? 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