Thanks. Glad I'm not the only one who took a look at that manual and got a headache. It's 2018 and Icom's engineers still can't make a straightforward front panel programming experience. I haven't even installed this radio in my truck yet, the purchase-regret is currently so high. Waiting for the USB cable to arrive from Amazon. If that doesn't work, DX Engineering is getting this one back.
Nice video! Very good. I really appreciate you making this as I just installed one of these in my car and have yet to program my repeaters in it. Also looks like one of the few if not the only video on the subject. Thanks again!!
Hi Omar, Everytime I make a memory change or I use your tutorial. Very helpful. This radio is NOT user friendly. I still have some older Icom radios that are much easier to program. This one takes a genius and I guess I'm not. Thanks!
Thank you! I have a friend that just bought this radio. He was getting very frustrated. So I will send him this link. He does not have a computer to download Chirp.
Hi - is there a way to toggle between the memory name and the frequency. I know how to show either / or via the menu....but every other radio I have I can press a single key, or hold a key, if I wish to toggle between the two
I was wondering if anyone could help. I followed all the steps detailed in this video, but when I press 'Yes' for Overwrite, the radio gives two fast beeps, almost as if it were an error message, and no name is programmed into the radio. Is the radio just broken, or is there something I can do?
@@DrewToner I actually figured it out! You have to go into memory settings, and look for the display option I think it was, you have to move it to name, all them showed up! It was a preference that automatically says you want it to show fq instead of its name.
Thank you the menu tree was kicking me... Seeing you do it, it now makes sense. The manual has no context or explanation of these functions or settings. It is not intuitive for me.
I try to find the same screen as you have shown on the RU-vid instructions. How do I get there first? It shows SIMPLEX and MR 002. This isn't my familiar environment yet so I am just a fool wandering around in my radio.
Mine stays On and I’ve never tried turning it Off and I don’t know that you could? In some radios it’s in the menu and others have a switch on the side of the microphone.
Hey for what it's worth - the BlueMax49ers FTDI USB cable for Icom radios works perfectly. I found it on Amazon for $25. Too bad I can't say the same for the 2730 itself - man what a terrible radio. Back to DXE it goes (got a defect, I assume.. they cannot possibly all be this bad.)
I have set up memory exactly as what you showed. thanks. I have entered channel name. however, the display shows frequency instead of name. how to make it display name? Thanks.
@@johnthehammer7702 Do you happen to know how I can scan a bank? I've programmed a number of local repeaters in my Icom, however I would like to scan the memory channels and haven't figured it out yet