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A big announcement or a fizzle….
24 August 2024 | by
The news is out the new Icom IC 7760 is out with a bit of a lunch bag letdown feeling among hams. As Rob Sherwood put in on the 7610 groups io site:
"Unless I am missing something, why would I "upgrade" from a 7610 to a 7760? With minimal details at this point, why would the lab numbers be noticeably better?"
Some of the highlights are:
A separate control head from the RF deck. This is nice to see and you can move the rig around the house but the specs say it requires a gigabit Ethernet connection to function.
200 watts power output.
15 separated bandpass filters. (7610 has 13)
The addition of a 2.4-inch sub-display for filter display or band stacking and so on.
A preset FT8 menu for the Digi fans.
4 antenna inputs. (7610 has 2)
Other than a few other minor stuff it basically is a 7610 but for double the price. But if an extra 100 watts, 2 extra bandpass filters, 2 extra antenna ports and an easy FT8 setup rev's your engine then the extra money is well spent I guess.
Here is the link from Icom with all the details and you can judge for yourself.
Icom IC 7760
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You think ICON would talk to contestors and ask them what they really, really need in a 2020’s SDR receiver and transmitter. And one-gigabyte internet speed costs a pretty penny. Even my Shaw download turtle speed of 100 megabytes (2.4 and 5 GHZ) is more than adequate for two internet based TV modems (and both record to the Cloud almost 8 hours of TV shows a day to my Shaw Cloud account and I watch whenever I have time), 8 wifi laptops, 1 desktop and smartphone.
So why on earth would the 7760 need 1 gigabyte speed to do anything and why a cable in this day of Wi-Fi? I haven’t used an ethernet cabled system in nearly 10 years. This is going to be the “Edsel” of Amateur Radio, IHMO. But perhaps it was to push us to buy the 7610 and it’s some kind of marketing ploy? Because it’s convinced me to get the 7610 because I was really hoping ICON would come out with something that was a 7610 on steroids for the same or just a bit more $$$, not something that even Rob Sherwood would scratch his head over. That’s not a good thing.
Reading through some of the comments, I think the requirement for gigabyte Ethernet has been misunderstood. It’s talking about a wired Ethernet between the RF cabinet and the control head, which can be provided by most commercial modems/routers and switches. It does not require the user to purchase a gigabyte internet service. Also, Most WiFi routers do not provide a gigabyte Wi-Fi capability.
way overpriced they need to get back to basics todays economy doesnt justify that expense wChina will come out with better options and price