Icomm HF Radio

Hi John,

I have one in the Patrol at the moment. It is actually connected to a Barrett 910 Auto Tune antenna through an interface box (can also be connected to a Codan 9350).
The reason for this is that I found the Moonraker (AT230 I Think) was just too tall to put on the 4by. All these auto tuners are big but this one just wouldn't fit anywhere.

Aside from that, the radio itself is a mighty fine rig. I have an amateur radio licence & it is a perfect combination radio.

The radio has some fantastic features as found on the Codan NGT & some not found on any other radio that I know of.
It is also missing a couple of minor features found on the Barrett 950 as well.
I have had Barrett 550, Barrett 950, Codan 9323 & the ICOM F7000 over the years. They all have their good & bad points. I personally prefer the 950 & the F7000 over the others, just my opinion though.

Mine will be for sale very shortly if you are interested.

Cheers,

David

Interesting radio. Is it Type Approved for VKS / Flying Doctor? Not that I mind either way but I know there are some on here who see the use of Amateur sets on those frequencies as a hanging offence :)

Mike Harding

PS. I note versions of this rig sold overseas have increased output power - 125W.

I have an IC-F7000 and found it to be an excellent radio. I have been a long time Icom fan and have many Icom radios, several now installed in my new (11/04) Hilux. I mainly use it on the amateur bands but I am a member of VKS737.
The only thing that I don't like about the Icom, and it's common across many Icom radios, is the need to go into a 'set' menu to change simple things.
For instance, there are three scan groups, but you need to go into the initial setup menu to change them. This means switching the radio off, holding down the OK button while switching on, navigating around through the menus to find the scan group setting, then another switch off and on finishes off the change..
Far too messy for most people. Would have been much better to have a short press of the scan key to stop/start scan and a long press to allow you to select the scan group.
I use an Icom AT-120 tuner with my set and a long 9' whip antenna, although I have heard that you can use an older 8558 codan antenna in place of the moonraker one.
Other things I don't like is the flimsy mini-din plug for the control head and the weird never-seen-one-before connector for the antenna control. Otherwise I am very impressed with the build quality.
Regards,
Michael.
P.S. You can see some pictures of my radio installation here :-
http://www.users.on.net/~michaelcarey/pics/hilux_install/
I should update them soon as things have progressed a little bit now....