Thanks for the support Joanne and Jerry....
My house made the national news tonite... at least the outlets of my new
drain pipes where I am pumping torrents of water from the mountain did.. and
so did the huge 100'+ cranes holding up the houses below me....Since the
cranes are already here, I wonder if I could talk them into letting me
borrow the cranes for a few minutes and turn them 180 degrees to install my
MonstIR...Now that the torrential rains seem to be subsiding, I am sure
those houses won't move that much further down the mountain while we install
antennas.....
My XYL says I have a one track mind.. while the whole mountain around us
seems to be sliding down into the sea, all I can think about is how to get
the MonstIR on top of my 85' tower...and the one positive note is now that
those two houses are further down the mountain my propagation to the
SouthWest is much less obstructed....
As I said previously I put an IC-7000? on order at HRO today just for the
fun of it... and partially to stoke the 'guy thing' envy of those who
consider themselve to be "gentlemen"..
Don't know what it is going to cost, don't know what it is, but it should be
fun to have the first one.. what ever it is....
While some of the technical speculation on this reflector makes sense and
may even be read by Icom, a lot of the speculation on the price point is
inane to say the least...
I guess the part I find the most difficult is the continual questions about
the unit when all the information that anyone has is the brief 1 page
description in the French Magazine.. that's all the information there is
right now.. PERIOD
So why bother asking questions about the unit.. when nobody knows anymore
than you do?
Reminds me a lot about Wall Street, where everyone asks everyone else about
the latest rumor... when in fact no one you ask knows anything...and those
who actually might know something are never going to tell you...
__________________________________________________________
Howard S. White Ph.D. P. Eng., VE3GFW/K6 ex-AE6SM KY6LA
"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"
Formerly "Awfully Extremely Six Sado Masochist"
"Krazy Yankee Six Loves America"
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Keller - K3BZ" <k3bz@...>
To: <ic7000@...>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ic7000] How much is the IC-7000 going to cost me?
Any ham that would build a tower... for a HUGE new SteppIR MONSTIR yagi
beam...way up on top of a
hill...while homes all around are sliding down with mudflows... in the
middle of non-stop
record-breaking torrential rainstorms...can't be ALL bad 8^)
GO - HOWARD!!
I'm kinda enjoying all this hoopla about the (so far) phantom IC-7000!!
with all the very best, 73.... Jerry K3BZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "jdow" <jdow@...>
To: <ic7000@...>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ic7000] How much is the IC-7000 going to cost me?
I know Howard from nattering with him in email on the side. "I'd be
willing to introduce him to my mother," so to speak. He seems like a
gentleman. The "feeding frenzy" seems to strike him differently than
me. I find it mostly amusing. I must say ICOM has built up some very
nice customer loyalty. For all that I may cavil about the faults in
my ProII I am quite pleased with it. (I just wish it was incrementally
better in a few places that should not have cost anything to implement.
One gripe probably cost the money of writing some dozen EXTRA lines of
code in the DSP ROM. {^_-} The RF engineer in me is very fussy about
this sort of thing.)
{^_^} Anyway, W6MKU is not offended. And I hope others are not. I
do suspect that getting a life is a good idea, though. Holding
your breath until this 7000 puppy is available could be fatal.
{^_-}
----- Original Message -----
From: "MKM" <mab2000@...>
To: <ic7000@...>
Sent: 2005 February, 26, Saturday 18:48
Subject: Re: [ic7000] How much is the IC-7000 going to cost me?
This group is all Gentlemen here.
Your remarks are out of line. You should be banned. Moderator, please
take notice and warn this guy or erase him from here.
On Feb 26, 2005, at 4:39 AM, Dr. Howard S. White wrote:
Joanne:
All these people must be smoking something.. the product does not
exist yet...except for a brief mention in a French magazine...of some
alleged specs...and yet people are already pricing it, complaining the
price will be too high or too low, speculating on the filter
configurations, etc. etc. etc..
Get a Life Folks.. IT DOES NOT EXIST YET..Stop speculating... you are
only wasting bandwidth...
Wait until it is offically announced in Japan (likely)... or Dayton
(less likely)
I am still betting it wll have a number other that IC-7000
FYI - Like I did for the Pro3 and the SteppIR MonstIR, I am going to
HRO tomorrow and put in an order for one
.. just so I can say I got the first one....(it's a guy thing again)
.... whatever it turns out to be!
__________________________________________________________
Howard S. White Ph.D. P. Eng., VE3GFW/K6 ex-AE6SM KY6LA
"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"
Formerly "Awfully Extremely Six Sado Masochist"
"Krazy Yankee Six Loves America"
----- Original Message -----
From: jdow
To: ic7000@...
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [ic7000] How much is the IC-7000 going to cost me?
From: "Ya`akov N. Miles" <ve7alq@...>
>
> How much is the Icom IC-7000 going to cost me? I presume it will
not
> be the same price or lower than what I am paying for my new
> IC-706mkiiG.
Infinite dollars today.
> Does anyone know more about the filter options. Your English
upload
> says that optional filters are neither available or required.
Just
> how many software filters can be configured at once on the
IC-7000?
> Can I have a 250 Hz CW and a 500 Hz CW filter programmed at once?
DSP filters not crystal filters. With dual passband tuning you can
get just about any passband and center frequency in 50Hz and 100Hz
steps respectively as long as it remains below the basic bandwidth
setting for the filter, which is also variable in principle.
> Does the IC-7000 transmitter conk out around 12 volts like the
> IC-706mkiiG, or is it friendlier towards 12 volt batteries?
It does not run on batteries at this time. But that is because it
does not run at all at this time. Apparently it is still in design
not production.
{^_-} W6MKU
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