IC-7610 Waterfall and WSJT Config 

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Impossible question I'm afraid. The underlying architecture of the 890 is different to the 7610 which is why It's effectively no 3 in the Sherwood list (www.sherweng.com/table.html); only the £14K IC-7851 and 3 versions of the K3 plus a no longer available Flex 6700 plus the RX only Icom 9700 are above it in receiver performance. On the IC-7610, because of the architecture, the roofing filters are effectively at least as wide as the band itself so you see a lot of RF overload conditions on the receiver which you need to back of the RF gain control to counter. Not an issue by any means, but certainly an operating consideration. I used both in recent RTTY contests and they are both fantastic radios - the 7610 has a second receiver of course. I like very much the flexibility in the 7610 over the waterfall configuration (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2vCaB1LJJ90.html) and also the ability to set up bandlets on the UK 5MHz allocation is superb (g0mgx.blogspot.com/2018/08/60m-or-5mhz-and-all-that-jazz.html) and here I compared (very poor video) the two waterfalls side by side (g0mgx.blogspot.com/2018/11/ts-890-and-ic-7610-panadapter-and.html) Some more comparisons between the two here g0mgx.blogspot.com/2018/11/wae-rtty-time.html. I have also owned a TS-990 and found it superb; now Kenwood have added CW decode and some other features from the 890 to the firmware it looks like a very competitive radio. The RX performance isn’t up there with the 890, but would you or I notice any difference in our circumstances? Certainly with my compromise antennas I doubt it very much. Its twin RX makes it a real competitor. The 990 is also 200W out with a second RX; the 890 100W out with one RX. The IC-7610 is a dual RX full SDR radio with an I/Q output - neither of the Kenwood's have this. There is no easy answer. Whichever one you get, they are all fantastic radios.

@@MarkG0MGX Another thank you for the videos, I think the Kenwood is looking more favourable for me as it has the additional encode/decode CW with a USB keyboard, where as the IC-7610 only does psk & fsk encode/decode, I researched by looking at each of the radios user manuals. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes, the WSJT software will always select FIL2 (a quirk with the CAT command set) so set that to be as wide as a house, then use either FIL1 or FIL3 for your day-to-day SSB work and the FIL2 will always be selected when you use WSJT.

I have both

@@MarkG0MGX Lucky you! Don't they duplicate each other? Does the 7610 do something differently? Or do you use it for another purpose? Thanks for the uploads.