IC-7610 SDR Announced at Tokyo Ham Fair 2016

Larry - WA7LZO

Link to announcement, with photo of IC-7610 SDR:

http://www.icomuk.co.uk/News_Article/3508/19067/

Dave - W6OVP

Any new SDR shown by Kenwood or Yaesu?

Simon Lewis

Nah they are left behind ...the 7610 is...uninspiring... dual watch lol.... a 7300 in a bigger box n bigger screen ... shiny but hardly innovative 

KY6LA_Howard

No details yet.. so we can't be sure 7610 is an SDR

IW7DMH, Enzo

I wouldn't say so. It fits perfectly the basical needs to work a split. It has 100 watt, internal tuner, touch screen and external monitor. If it will cost 3000$ it will be far cheaper than 6300 plus a Maestro.

Simon Lewis

4800$

Simon Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58FI2WzRB-M


Looks like a 7300

seems cost is $4800

Simon Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNn2gGGpxE4

Steve Jones gw0gei

the spec says it uses the same sdr rx tech as the smaller 7300so I assume its sdr and has a lan socket on the rear panel. once bitten by ic7400 twice why - I wouldnt touch one until there were a lot in the field and over 12 months in use.  Time for yaesu to catch up and replaced the ftdx5000 with something sdr based?

Steve Jones gw0gei

why = shy

Walt - KZ1F

Ah, let the hand wringing begin.

SteveJ

It is an sdr

SteveJ

Estimated cost $3000.

SteveJ

$3000

mikeatthebeach .

NO WNB !!! 

Bill -VA3WTB

As you all know, Flex was taken to task by a few folks for not having Pre distortion. Why is there nothing said about the Icoms not having it?

DrTeeth

No regrets with my 7300. I had considered holding fire until the official release of this rig, but no point based on inside info.

I would be very, very surprised if Yaesu and Kenwood are doing nothing SDR-wise. I reckon that they are just holding back on some final design decisions so they can learn from everybody else's mistakes or to trump them in the tech specs dept.

DrTeeth

>>NO WNB !!!
Probably does not need one ;-).

mikeatthebeach .

This will impact K3S/P3 sales !

mikeatthebeach .

I do, live next to RFI city - Fast Impulse Noise S9 +10 most bands
The WNB is a life saver !

mikeatthebeach .

Bet the IC-7610 has he same 1 Preselect Filter for Two Bands as the IC-7300 to save cost.
The OVF problem to adjacent bands problem will still be there in the typical ICOM style.

W7NGA

NO computer required!

Bill Roberts

Scattered thoughts:

Yaesu and Kenwood may have decided to target chronologically/intellectually "old" hams who insist on buying large, heavy, expensive analog  radios. 

A few things we Flex users might learn from Icom are (1) How to eliminate latency in an SDR.  My 7300 seems to have little/none compared to my 6300+I7 computer.  (2) How to make an SDR that is more RF-proof.  My 7300 survives very well in less-than-ideal environments where there is lots of stray RF while my 6300 does not.

Technology and performance aside, I'll stick with Flex Radio Systems because of their second to none customer/technical support.  Icom would probably never allocate the resources and talent to match what Flex does to make their customers successful and happy.

mikeatthebeach .

The Flex6500/6700 is Front End RF bullet proof since it has the Individual Band PreSelectors compared to the 6300 and the ICOM 7610/ICOM 7300

Ken - NM9P

Icom achieves lower latency at the expense of filter shape. But don't assume this is a permanent comparison. Anything software defined can be changed dramatically and relatively quickly with new programming.

Remember, the first ARRL review dinged the 6000's CW note and side bands. A new software release and the CW note was perfect.

DrTeeth

Chaps, this place has become like some of the supercar forums that exist.  On these they insist on poo-pooing the opposition as their car can only go 159mph instead of the 161mph of the forum's favourite. Such comparisons are meaningless, unless one has an ideally located QTH, a quiet QTH and perfectly located and tuned antennas. Who does?

W9OY

My car goes 155 mph and then the computer shuts it off

73  W9OY

DrTeeth

Same here :-(((.

Gerald-K5SDR

A word of caution to all.  Please keep this thread factual and refrain from goading anyone about what might or might not be and comparing mine against yours.  We will shut the tread down if it moves outside the Community guidelines.

Here are a few the facts as they appear:

1. ICOM has not said the 7610 is or is not a direct sampling radio.  That was not true when they announced the 7300 where they made a huge deal of that fact - calling it "revolutionary."
2. ICOM does not call the 7300 a SDR in any literature I have ever seen.  The 7300 is an IC-7100 (per the the 7300 service manual) with a DDC direct sampling front end driving the 7100 DSP chip at the 24 kHz IF.  You won't find them saying it is a SDR in their literature, web page, or manual that I can find.  There is a big difference between sDR and SDR IMHO.
3. If you watch the video, you can see that spectrum/waterfall performance looks almost identical in performance to the IC-7851.
4. If you look at the video of the back of the radio you can see that many of the holes in the back panel are empty with no connectors installed.  Appearance would say that the CPU and display are operational in static demo mode.  There are clearly boards missing and virtually no specifications other than dual watch, HF-6m, and an external HDMI display output.
5. All else is speculation until they say more.  
   

Competition is not a bad thing.  Let's see what this thing is when it becomes real or they give some real specifications.

73,
Gerald

Walt - KZ1F

My British Leyland TR-7 was run up to 135 MPH on Dulles Access RD in '78. Plenty of gas pedal left but 135mph a mere few inches off the road drove my adrenaline OVL so even though I could have punched it,I graciously declined to press my luck. It was legacy analog, no computer to freeze up. And, as it happens, I lived to tell y'all about it. ...OR, I didn't and everything since that night has been a consequence of being on the other side.

Sergey R5AU

No way to compare 7600 with any combination Flex6X00+Maestro, 7610 just successor of 7600 Flex Go a Head!