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An International manufacturer of radio equipment, Based in Japan. Their products include equipment for radio amateurs, pilots, maritime applications, land mobile professional applications and scanning enthusiasts.

An International manufacturer of radio equipment, Based in Japan. Their products include equipment for radio amateurs, pilots, maritime applications, land mobile professional applications and scanning enthusiasts.

Icom America

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What is a 'Call' Channel?

While programming my Icom radio it has MR (memory)channels, VFO (Variable Freq) channels and Call Channels. What are call channels as comparred to memory or vfo channels? What is their use?
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What kind of power plug does the ICOM IC-7300 need?

I am considering buying the IC-7300. What kind of connector will I need to connect it to an external power supply? Or, does it come with a connector that I can splice on to a power cable coming from the DC power supply? For instance, will I need…
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Identify Icom portable radio

I'm trying to identify this Icom portable radio. Unfortunately, the picture is in a quite a bad shape. Does someone know the model number? Thank you!
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Recording from ICOM R8500 to pc

Newbie ham radio guy here. I just got my hands on an Icom R8500, and I'd like to record some signals on my pc. What's the proper way to do this, to minimize the added noise? Should I just use a 3.5mm cable to connect the REC out of the receiver to…
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Purpose of "Low 1" and "Low 2" on Icom F50?

The display for the Icom F50 has a "LOW" indicator. The Instruction Manual says this is the "OUTPUT POWER INDICATOR [which] Appears when Low 2 or Low 1 is selected." There is no other explanation though on what "Low 2" or "Low 1" is or does. What…
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What is wrong with how I'm passing MODE to rigctl for an ICOM IC-705?

I'm using rigctl 4.5.5. on a pi zero and I can't figure out what is wrong with the way I'm passing the MODE value to my Icom IC-705. Here it is not working. ❯ echo $RIGMODEL - $RIGPORT - $FREQ - $MODE 3085 - /dev/ttyACM0 - 144390000 - FM 12000 ❯…
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