Introducing the IC-705 VHF, UHF, HF, D-Star all-mode 10W QRP portable SD...

New Icom IC-705 HF/VHF/UHF portable transceiver

I wondered if ICOM would enter the QRP market with an SDR radio and it looks like they have.

The IC-705 looks to have it all.  This looks like a fun radio!

HF + 50MHz + 144MHz + 430MHz

SSB | CW | RTTY | AM | FM | DV

10W output power

Large color screen

SDR architecture

Internal battery

GPS & Bluetooth

D-STAR

Can be charged via USB

Information sourced from Gigaparts 

See also: - QRP Blog and QRZ Now

Release Date unknown. 

IC-9700 Manuals (English)

The manuals for the long awaited IC-9700 are now available in English here

Australian pricing and release date for the IC-9700!

Strictlty Ham have released the price and expected arrival date of the long-awaited Icom IC-9700.

QUOTE:-

The price for the new IC-9700 in Australia will be $2495.00. Availability will be around the end of April 2019.

RF Solutions now have it listed at $2475.00 with the same expected delivery time frame.

This is much cheaper than I expected and very tempting.....

IC-9700 and an exercise in Jinglish

There is some great information in the following link.  Just be aware that it's in Jinglish.  It just adds to the fun of discovery.

Japanese presentation on the ICOM 9700 found at HamLife.jp

Make sure to click on the link to the second page (as there's some good information there).

Let Google translate! You will enjoy it!

IC-9700 Release Date and Pricing

Two websites are reporting that Icom's IC-9700 is to be released in February 2019.  Both these sites are in Europe and show the price as €1,995.00 at the HamShop in the Netherlands and £1795.95 from Icom UK  respectively.  This placed it at an estimated price of $3100 ( more accurately $3200) Australian.

The Icom IC-9700 is the long awaited successor of the IC-910.  Currently on VK Classified, secondhand IC-910's are selling for between $1800 and $2200 (depending on the condition and options installed).

The IC-9100 which is a HF, 6m, 2m and 70cm Base Transceiver (with optional 23cm and D-STAR) is selling for around $4000 from Australian retailers.

MMDVM Jumbo Spot

Picked up a Jumbo Spot the other day, and now have it working, although there are a lot of additional things it can do, which I haven't explored as yet. All for another day.  Not sure why it's call 'Jumbo'?  It's very small!

On Fusion I'm generally connected into AU YSF001
On D-Star, try REF023-C or XLX389-D
On DMR BrandMeister Room 505005, 5056 or 5058 (via YSF2DMR bridge)

The MMDVM Spot has the ability to operate in one of four modes D-STAR, DMR, C4FM/Fusion and P25. (It may actually be more!)  And there are some reflectors/Rooms that can cross link these modes. For example VK4TUX has a system that links Room AU YSF001 (Fusion) to XLX389-D (D-Star),  along with DMR and (I think) P25. This makes it possible for Fusion, D-Star, DMR and P25 cross mode QSOs.

It's all very Cool!

Icom IC-9700 Pre-Release Information

Icom has now provided prerelease information on the IC-9700. Click here.

Still no hint on the price!

HF Mobile

I finally got around to mounting the IC-7100 head unit in the car. A cheap camera ball-mount head unit, did the trick.