Have you used the icon software?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: IC7000
> 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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