Icom IC-7000 vs Icom IC-9100 for VHF Simplex FM Receive

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   jaholmes01 says:

   June 1, 2013 at 6:20 AM

   Surprised? Why? That a $3k base rig outperforms a mobile is only to be expected. The IC-7000, like the 706 series before it, is designed to do exactly one thing well: Be small. 🙂 73 DE N7OE

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   Conor Turton says:

   June 1, 2013 at 5:49 AM

   In the manual for the Icom 7000 it states to turn on the Pre-AMP to get an accurate S meter reading. An Icom 7000 with the pre-amp off gives a similar reading to the 9100 with the attenuator on.

   You’ll notice that from a RX audio point of view they sound pretty similar in regards to the lack of background hiss you’d get with one being weaker than the other.

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   N2RRAny says:

   June 1, 2013 at 5:01 AM

   I conquor with Conor! You also actually can hear the audio is almost as good as on the IC-9100 even with the IC-7000 showing no S-meter reading which indicates therehas to be something wrong with the s-meter reading. No doubt been doing week signal long enough to notice that a station with no s-meter reading shouldn’t sound as good as that station did. LOL! The IC-7K has been known to having s-meter issues ,but put that pre-amp on and signal would compared to the 9100. Try that next vid! 73!

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   Jim Bates says:

   June 1, 2013 at 4:12 AM

   Ok, surprised was a bad choice of word 🙂 Pleasantly happy would be a better description.  The noise level was pretty low during that evening as well. Not much static…

   73 de KJ4WLH

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   carmelo cassar says:

   June 1, 2013 at 3:31 AM

   THE IC 7000 PRE AMP WAS OFF MATE , AM I WRIGHT?

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   Jim Bates says:

   June 1, 2013 at 3:02 AM

   You are correct, the 7000 pre-amp was not enabled.

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   todt061458 says:

   June 1, 2013 at 2:28 AM

   Make another video with the pre amp on. That than would be a fair comparson. Sorry for any bad spelling. Thanks . Tod kc9rka. 73’s

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   sugminbajstolle says:

   June 1, 2013 at 2:08 AM

   And it is supposed to be on when using Vhf and Uhf… RTFM 🙂

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   Jim Bates says:

   June 1, 2013 at 1:46 AM

   I’ve RTFM’d; I’ve missed the “supposed to be on when using VHF/UHF” – perhaps someone could give me the page in the manual where that is the case… The closest reference I could find is in the spec sheet at the end of the manual (page 148) – where the specs say “with the pre-amp on”…

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    NightSailor says:

    June 1, 2013 at 1:02 AM

    Another video with the pre-amp on. Want to see the S-meter reading. S-5 on the 9100 and nothing on the 7000.

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