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Re: Japanese CW transceiver and what is ICOM X60?


 

Hi Thomas

With all your wishes it sounds like one of the newer Yaesu rigs is what you're looking for when it comes to CW. I used to have a FTDX101D. Great rig and all the CW-settings were in a seperate menu. while all the other modes were crammed in one page. I think this is a hint what group of users the designers made it for :-) I hated the clicking of the relays even with semi break-in, but also realised I didn't really use the bandscopes, so I bought (downgraded?) an Elecraft K3s which is also a fantastic CW-rig, but uses pin-diodes, so it's quiet. Side-effect is also that it is less power hungry 1A rec /22A TX, versus? 4A rec /24A TX.

The X60 is suggested to be a follow-up of the IC7851, which here in EU is close to €10000, so that would not make it a budget-rig. But if ICOM is smart, they do the same thing as Yaesu did with the FTDX101 line, develop less-specced spin-offs as Yaesu did with the FTDX10 and FT710.

73, Martin PE1EEC/PE6X

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