ICOM vs Yaesu, I have 7300 and a 891, I use both and both work. 891 is a hell of a lot of radio for the money. It essentially does what the 7300 does, for myself anyway, not a big scope user here I use the organic scopes on side of my head. Slightly different RX of course... ICOM bleed sounds worse by 30pct... but it is also more "hi fi" if such term can be used.. the lowest signals fight less against the low internal noise of the ICOM.
ICOM clarity of rx sound is a blessing on a very quiet band, the weak S0-S2 signal rx comes through very clear and defined. However it is a curse when another station rocks up 3-6kHz away (which is very very often) as that bleed is also very clear and sharp sounding, so clear it obscures weak signals in a bad way. Sharp edge filters unusable here, piercing horrid whistling sound is not acceptable to me.
However I still read the the signals through the 891 higher perceived noise no problem.
If I had to live with only the 891 I would still be quite happy, so far.
Reliability is yet to be experienced both radios less than 1 year old. I like that Yaeasu puts 200 Watts of transistor capability there for the 100W output.. whereas ICOM put their underrated cost cutting finals in - 140W of transistor capability for 100W.
Something is set up either wrongly or by design on the ICOM 7300 audio stages to TX stages. You cannot apply even 5pct of the processing ICOM's very own manual suggests without ALC being in the unacceptable zone pretty much permanently.
(20dB compression is fantasy land without ALC end stop)
With the stock mic I am on 12pct mic gain, RF 100pct and Comp 2 and I still get 50pct peaks on the ALC.
If you use ICOM 7300 do you ignore your ALC and end stop it ? Is that the solution to get more compressed TX audio ?
I like both, neither perfect, but do remember the price difference is big.