Gerry,

I'm going to start with the Ham Radio Deluxe but I'll post to the list my 
experience as I get into it.

Phil.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Leary" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: IC7000


> Phil, I am right there with you.  The thing that makes it harder is in 
> some
> situations you can do the same thing several ways with the 7000.  Which
> software do you use with it?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 11:06 AM
> Subject: IC7000
>
>
>> Trevor,
>>
>> If I was a lot younger, I'd have an easier time of remembering how to
>> change
>> features, and the like, on the radio.  For now, I have purchased a 
>> netbook
>> in order to load Ham Radio Deluxe, and if necessary, the Icom 7000
>> software
>> in order to get at the features to make changes that I keep forgetting
>> now,
>> haha.  The audio settings on the 7000 is difficult to set due to the type
>> of
>> microphone that comes with the radio.  I sent my hand microphone to a guy
>> in
>> Arkansas who modifies the microphone for about 40 dollars.  This greatly
>> improves the microphone but you have to turn the audio way back to keep
>> from
>> over modulating.  I am mostly a CW operator and it by far has the best
>> receiver in it for CW that I have ever own.  The only real problem with
>> the
>> radio is not having enough documentation that is readable.  I have the
>> manual but it doesn't read well after being stripped of the graphics.  It
>> doesn't read well with the graphics either, haha.  I keep notes on 
>> various
>> sections because, unless you use a particular part of the radio often, it
>> is, as I said, at my advanced age of 59, easy to forget.  My youngest 
>> son,
>> not a ham, comes over and looks up whatever part of the manual I am 
>> having
>> trouble with and walks me through the menu settings required for whatever
>> feature I am attempting to change.  Then I write down step by step notes
>> to
>> remind myself if I forget.
>>
>> Phil.
>> K0NX
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Trevor Dawson" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 10:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: SWR readings on the IC7000
>>
>>
>>> Hi Phil,
>>> Thanks for that information, I have only had the IC7000 a little over a
>>> Month and I'm still finding ways to get out of trouble.  Only this
>>> morning
>>> I
>>> have ordered a Talking Watt meter looking forward to getting that.
>>> I like the radio but it is very easy to press the wrong button when in
>>> menus
>>> so any good hints of your experience with it would be good. In time I
>>> will
>>> solve some of the issues I am sure.
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Trevor VK6YJ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  _____
>>>
>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
>>> Sent: Sunday, 3 April 2011 11:31 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: SWR readings on the IC7000
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Trevor,
>>>
>>> I have a talking watt meter which reads the SWR  but after 2.5 years of
>>> running the Icom 7000, I don't believe it can be set to read the SWR.
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Trevor Dawson" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 8:33 PM
>>> Subject: SWR readings on the IC7000
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello All,
>>>> Can the SWR bee read out on the IC7000? Other speech outputs are being
>>>> read.
>>>> I have a sighted person look at the manual but even he gets lost in
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any advice.
>>>>
>>>> Trevor.  VK6YJ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>  _____
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