Icom IC-9700 Overview: The Basics 

I certainly plan on making more videos on it, simply because there's just so much to cover. For as expensive as it is, it's quite good value!

Well, I would not recommend the 9700 for anything that doesn't need SSB or CW. If you do VHF/UHF weak signal DXing or work linear satellites, get a 9700; if you only do FM, get a Yaesu FT-2980.

@@hs-tc thank you.

It does. There is a button to the bottom-left of the dial that, when pressed, reads the frequency and mode off.

Unfortunately, yes. I've tried to get 9600 packet decoding (or digital voice signals) to work, but, the only way to do it is to set the USB IF/AF output to IF, then use a program like HDSDR to "tune" the IF, then put the AF output of that into the decoder program. For satellite decoding, I'd just use a normal receive-only SDR, maybe an RSPdx.

@@hs-tc Thanks!

I pulled a random song off of a tape I had kicking around when I recorded the intro; I'm pretty sure it's Blunt Force Trauma by Gemini. Ahh, here it is: soundcloud.com/geminicluster/blunt-force-trauma-ft-knock?in=geminicluster/sets/teenage-alchemy

@@hs-tc Thanks... I will check them out. It sounded like an interesting song. Also... this is a good video on the 9700. I learned a few things.

@@hs-tc Good song. I like it.

It can, but, it's only good on the ham bands. The receiver has filters on it that filters out anything outside of the ham bands.