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Video/review of the revolutionary Icom-7300 Software defined Export CB

Ranch55 said:
1) ... The Icom 7300 is not an export CB radio ........
2) ... The fan is always running when the radio is in transmit, always ......
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Correct but it is very quiet and its off immediately on transmit end. The fan never kicks in otherwise Icom did a great job selecting components and thermal engineering. This thing just loafs at full output power. The receive uses less than 900mA of power. You can run this radio all day long at 84 degree ambient temperature environment and the unit will run cool and comfortable and fans never need to kick in to remove excess heat just on receive.

The unit is so tiny. I did this quick video and you can see how small it is compared to the rest of this setup. (temp station using portable antenna)




Amazing PBT filter performance, it will knock out nasty QRM allowing recovery of audio. That radio station is a good test of receiver performance, its a low power station in south America in the noiser section of HF. I am able to receive it with the Sirio 5000 antenna even with a strong signal almost on top of it. IC-7300 beats out the WJ-8711 for tough signal recovery.

 
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543_Dallas said:
The people playing music and jamming, people that think they own a frequency and the guy that keys up randomly to say "you like sucking co**" all come to mind.



I dont get that either. I think the mentality that everything has to be peaked and tuned or modified keeps most cbers from buying good equipment. They've been told for years that cb shop magic makes them talk further and they want to believe it. The modern hf rigs do a pretty good job on AM where many of the older ones had such narrow bandwidth that a cheap cb sounded better. I can't think of any good reason to buy an export radio for a base in 2018.

I have a good friend thats a about 30 years older than me. Hes been on 11 meters most of his life and wanted to build the best cb station he could for his retirement years. I gave him some suggestions for radios and amplifiers but he said they were too expensive. Over the next year he spent even more money buying old junk equipment that looked cool.
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I have seen plenty of that myself. When you add up the total for all the stuff it really adds up. 300 here 200 there 500 here etc.. ads up quick and like you say, lots of quantity but poor quality. The prices of Export radios have been going up lately even decent SSB CBs are up in the 200 dollar range. (ie President McKinley but a big fan of that model and highly recommend it)

There was a time when HF Rigs sucked on AM, but the new stuff out there is excellent for AM and gives you clean tight modulation that would provide great exciter service for an amp.

I see decent Exports going for 300-400bucks average, FT-450D you can get now for 679 bucks and you some power and an antenna tuner built in to help when you cant get that perfect match:) cant beat that. It seems like Ham gear is being underpriced and exports overpriced a weird situation.

Back then Amateur radio equipment cost was so high and I remember several models did not even do AM at all.
 
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Thats a dirty trick.

AM has advanced quite a bit with sdr technology and Class D and E transmitters. Ive yet to see a ssb transmitter small and light enough to carry with one hand that makes legal limit with little heat and runs off a 120 volt circuit. +90% efficient rf amplifier and pwm modulators are in. :whistle:
 

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