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[IC-7000] DSP Features
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Dr. Howard S. White
Price - I was at HRO today.. they told me that with the recent $200 price increase, the IC-706 has gone from fastest selling to the slowest selling radio in the store.. there are too many other competitive radios at the $700 -800 price point that the $950 price point makes the 706 unsaleable
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__________________________________________________________ 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" Website: www.ky6la.com ----- Original Message -----
From: scotthon1 To: ic7000@... Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:47 AM Subject: [IC-7000] DSP Features When guessing (fantasizing) about new features in the IC-7000, the best place to look is likely the IC-756ProIII and IC-7800 manuals. The IC-7000 inherits the DSP engine from these units (two of these chips). Many of the features are clearly from these big brothers: bandpass filtering, twin manual notch filters plus autonotch, digital voice recorder/voice keyer, TX/RX audio equalization, PSK/RTTY decode, CW autotune, etc.) I had the opportunity to play with the CW mode on the IC-7800 when it first arrived. I was listening to a crowded and noisy 20m band. I manually tuned a CW signal, then hit autotune on the rig. It placed the signal right in the middle of the filter passband. That let me drop an obscenely narrow filter (50hz) on the signal at the IF stage. It plucked the signal out of the noise and made it sound like a code practice tape. Even I could copy it :-) It appears the speculation about price and features demonstrates the need for the IC-706MKIIG to stay exactly where it is and continue to complete against that mobile unit from the other radio manufacturer. Regardless of all the great features coming in the new rig, the IC-706MKIIG will still retain one advantage - price. Scott N7SS Community email addresses: Post message: IC7000@... Subscribe: IC7000-subscribe@... Unsubscribe: IC7000-unsubscribe@... List owner: IC7000-owner@... ** "Name-calling, vulgarity, personal insults and/or verbal abuse will not be tolerated in this group at anytime. Any member posting such material in future will be placed on moderated status, and is subject to deletion and banning." ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ic7000-unsubscribe@... c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |
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William O'Hara
Price - I was at HRO today.. they told me that with the recent $200 priceincrease, the IC-706 has gone from fastest selling to the slowest selling radio in the store..there are too many other competitive radios at the $700 -800 price point that the $950 price pointmakes the 706 The yen has not gone up so much to justify 2% or 3% increase in most radios with the huge increase in the 706. I don't get it. Volume must had been better on the 706 and thus manufacturing fixed costs should be lower. I don't get it. Bill |
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Dr. Howard S. White
The yen is at 1.08 which is definitely up from a couple of years ago
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Clearly they are trying to position the IC-7000 at a higher price point.. and need a higher price point for the 706 to establish value... __________________________________________________________ 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" Website: www.ky6la.com ----- Original Message -----
From: William O'Hara To: ic7000@... Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [IC-7000] DSP Features > Price - I was at HRO today.. they told me that with the recent $200 price increase, the IC-706 > has gone from fastest selling to the slowest selling radio in the store.. there are too many other >competitive radios at the $700 -800 price point that the $950 price point makes the 706 The yen has not gone up so much to justify 2% or 3% increase in most radios with the huge increase in the 706. I don't get it. Volume must had been better on the 706 and thus manufacturing fixed costs should be lower. I don't get it. Bill Community email addresses: Post message: IC7000@... Subscribe: IC7000-subscribe@... Unsubscribe: IC7000-unsubscribe@... List owner: IC7000-owner@... ** "Name-calling, vulgarity, personal insults and/or verbal abuse will not be tolerated in this group at anytime. Any member posting such material in future will be placed on moderated status, and is subject to deletion and banning." ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ic7000-unsubscribe@... c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |
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William O'Hara
You can't use it as a yardstick when other radios
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with smaller production runs are only up 2% or 3%. There is a disparity, which is evidence of marketing shift versus inflation due currency fluctuations. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Howard S. White" <drpaper@...> To: <ic7000@...> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [IC-7000] DSP Features The yen is at 1.08 which is definitely up from a couple of years agoand need a higher price point for the 706 to establish value... price increase, the IC-706store.. there are too many otherpoint makes the 706---- Yahoo! Groups LinksService.
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