A South African is the first to post a review of the new Icom IC-R9500 on
eHam.
see
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6577

--
John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
RX Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods
Drake SW8 & ERGO software
Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Redsun RP2100
BW XCR 30, Sangean 803A.
GE circa 50's radiogram
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop, PAORDT Roelof mini-whip
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:45:18 +0200, "John Plimmer"
wrote in
:


A South African is the first to post a review of the new Icom IC-R9500 on
eHam.
see
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6577


That's an impressive receiver.

What sort of antenna does one employ for reception of 3.3 GHz? Is a
wave guide required or is there sufficiently low-loss coaxial cable
made for that frequency?

Is there an American made equivalent?

http://www.icomamerica.com/products/...00/default.asp
Professional communications receiver
with 0.005 to 3335MHz coverage
and high performance spectrum scope

On Mar 15, 10:36 pm, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:45:18 +0200, "John Plimmer"
wrote in
:



A South African is the first to post a review of the new Icom IC-R9500 on
eHam.
see
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6577

That's an impressive receiver.

What sort of antenna does one employ for reception of 3.3 GHz? Is a
wave guide required or is there sufficiently low-loss coaxial cable
made for that frequency?

Is there an American made equivalent?

http://www.icomamerica.com/products/...00/default.asp
Professional communications receiver
with 0.005 to 3335MHz coverage
and high performance spectrum scope

Sounds like they finally got the S-AM right - for an additional
$10,000 or so. Sheesh.

Bruce Jensen