Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 12/09/05 08:29 pm Fred McKenzie tossed the following ingredients into
the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

I would like your opinion on your purchase?
Positives and Negatives... Don't hold back.

I'm not positive here but I don't think the 7000 is actually been fcc
aproved yet.


Butch & Laborkei-

The FCC approved it on about November 15th. A week or so ago they
started
to trickle into the Ham stores. I got mine Wednesday at Amateur
Electronic Supply.

If you are familiar with the IC-706, then you will feel at home with the
IC-7000. It is sort of the same radio, but with more features.

One minor disappointment was that in order for the radio to be approved
for importation into the U.S., Icom had to disable the feature where it
can show standard television channels on its front LCD display. (In the
U.S., it is illegal to have a radio in view of a driver that can display
television.) The version that can, is apparently only available in
Japan. It will be interesting to see if the radio can be easily modified
to re-enable it.


Check the messages on the IC-7000 Yahoo! group. People claim to have
discovered and implemented the mods. for TV and for MARS. There are
photos as well. Each mod. consists of removing one small surface-mount
diode.

I don't have one of these rigs, but maybe some day...

One day down the old log I will get me a 706 or 7000, used of course, us
old retired don't buy new anymore, might not live to make it all the way
through the manual.

KF5DE