Icom IC-9700 Review, Demo And Walkthrough 

That was in my bedroom, green screen background effect.. No store LOL

Just wanted to let you know: this unit does NOT do SHF. 1.2-1.3 Ghz is the 23cm band and is in the middle of the UHF band. 13cm (2.3-2.45 GHz) is still in UHF. The SHF band is 3 -30 GHz. Amateur portions of SHF include: 9cm (3.3 - 3.5 GHz), 5cm (5.65 - 5.925 Ghz), and 3cm (10.0 - 10.5 GHz). The IC-9700 is strictly VHF/UHF. Currently there are no SHF capable amateur transceivers on the market. The only way to acquire SHF capability for amateur use is through transverters. Most of which you have to build yourself.

You got it Kent, Cant believe all the negativity. Don't worry the MD-9700 will be out soon and nothing will work but hell It will be worth buying, and all the masochists will love it because its Chinese

I do my weekly DSTAR net every Saturday 9pm EDT on REF078A if you want to join in.

220 band is trash. No one uses it. At least 23cm is used for EME.

NO KIDDING!!

if you think about it its not,,, it has 2m 7cms and 23 cms,

I guess. I'd love to get it for the satellite work and the moonbounce. Sounds like a good radio for all of those things. 73 de KE0STO.

I mean the IC-7300 started out at that price now look at it now. Have patience. It will come down.

It dosen't on 2m as of the 1.21 firmware update. Only real downside to the rig for me.

None, but you could use Icom's RS-BA1 v2 software to display the scope.

yes but where do you stop with that one..

@@brian.7966 it stops at 1.2 gig. 1296. As I said, to be a true VHF/UHF/SHF it would cover 6 meters as well. Easy enough to fix with an elecraft transverter but it should already have it in my opinion. You may correct @Two hHands and a Radio that it is a marketing gimmick to get you to buy the 7300 and therefore you have a matching set. The 7300 enjoys very good reviews but it's not enough radio for me. My next radio will be the Icom 7851 because I want only the absolute best. For the average home station and users budget come which actually matches my budget LOL, they would make a matching set. IC 9700 and IC 7300 side-by-side. They should make a nice pretty looking thing that goes between the two radios that allows you to switch One microphone between the two radios. You can make your own I'm just saying that they could give you a larger speaker that is similar in design to the two radios and have a microphone switch on it. They probably charge $500 for the speaker though.

tryton1000 great question!!!

You can, but you will only have 2m operation. You could use the antenna for both bands by just running the radio's 2m and 70cm ports into a switch and then out to your antenna. That way all you'd have to do is flip the switch to go between the 2 bands. Small compromise to make as compaired to running another coax and installing another antenna if you dont want to...

NO such thing as a dumb question.. Get a Diplexer, tri-band. I think Diamond makes one.. One side plugs into all 3 jacks, with the appropriate frequencies , and it has 1 combined output... so that is what I am shopping for now. The same antenna with the same diplexer.

Thanks my friend I haven't met yet. Just looked at the Diamond web site. They have a triplexer that will work just fine. Have a great weekend. JJK

We've used ours with EasyPAL high res SSTV and an FM repeater. DSTAR is a good question, I'd say if possible the results wouldn't be nearly as good due to the compression being optimised for voice.

I've been wanting to try it but haven't yet. Should be no problem since SSTV is just voice band frequencies.

@@RateMyRadio Jarrod, No 128K Maybe slow bitmap photos via D-Rats Peter

VHF goes from 30 MHz to 300 MHz (10 m to 1 m wavelengths). UHF goes from 300 MHZ to 3000 MHz (3 GHz). (1 m to 10 cm wavelengths). SHF goes from 3 GHz to 30 GHz (10 cm to 1 cm wavelengths). 2 m is in the VHF band; 70 cm and 23 cm are both in the UHF band. The box is correctly labeled.

@@johnhawkinson7655 My mistake, your so right. I was confused about what we in Sweden call microwaves and draw the paralell to SHF. I know that apperantly 70cm is microwaves officially but in Sweden we tend to start the microwaves at 1Ghz so... Thanx for clearing it up.

SHF is 3 to 30 GHZ. EHF is 30 to 300. GHz.

My 2 meter Yagi is only 15 feet on a push up pole and I can work up the east coast of the US on SSB in the spring time during openings. And you can do EME at ground level

51`00 does

KD2QMZ great question. You will see soon coming up I have a use for it

Thanks. 73

Life is all about what you want, not what you need. Been that way for a long time now....

Menu > Set > Display > Display Unit >

Do like me & purchase a 910H.I am looking forward to it's arrival early next week.

No. The Noise Reduction does however. 73 Jarrad VK3BL from Rate My Radio :)

As of yet, I dont belive so. That would be pretty epic if a firmware update would allow that. My Yaesu 8900 in my truck does xband repeat and I love the feature.

Our 40amp supply runs it no worries; I suspect it tops out at 20amps, so a 30 amp power supply should be the recommended best practice minimum.

30A should be more than enough.

I saw this as well, it basically means you have an additional purchase of either a diplexer, or triplexer for eash multi band antenna,

I have this radio and a diamond dual band vhf/uhf vertical base antenna, I just bought a duplexer and in less than 5 min, work both bands, no problem.

So far that seems to be correct; it is for adjusting your radio only rather than continually disciplining the TXCO. 73, Jarrad VK3BL

Also - queue the arguments and complaints as to why there is an N connector on the back for 70cm....smh.