E1677: NEW! ICOM IC-7300 MKII HF Radio - First Look!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's all funny games in the chat before you alive.
Good evening guys ATMA Texas, when you get started here
just one day christ Okay, guys, it is about that time,

(02:38):
and we're gonna go right here, transition right there. Good evening,
Happy Tuesday. I hope that none of you are confused.
It is not Sunday, and it is not seven pm.
Not where I'm at anyway, It's eight pm in Texas.
Good evening. We're gonna talk tonight about the brand new

(02:59):
icon Ice see seventy three hundred mark two that I
just opened boxed yesterday and uh been kind of toying
with it a little bit, but I haven't taken it
out to pod yet, which is gonna be my real test.
I do want to give a special shout out and
a huge thank you to the nice folks over at
him Radio Clubhouse. They're usually live right now. You guys

(03:19):
don't know what Ham Radio Clubhouse is, please go subscribe
to their channel. I'm gonna have them on my Sunday
night live stream here in about a week and a half.
We're gonna do a giveaway of a brand new a
Chef radio, not the seventy three hundred mark two, but
still a really good chef radio and they're trying to
they've got they said they had some money to spend
before the end of the year, so we're gonna do
a giveaway and we're gonna try to get those guys

(03:40):
over three thousand subscribers once and for all. So please
go subscribe to Him Radio Clubhouse and okay, I'll turn
it up a little bit, Dave, thank you for that.
Say Windows, this Windows kind of Windows messes with me.
I'm like hating on Mac and then Windows says, ah,
we're gonna we're gonna show you. Yeah, now see that

(04:05):
should be right. Okay, uh, that's a little bit, but
I turned myself up in obs. It should be good.
But yeah, definitely go check out Him Radio Clubhouse. Thanks
to them for letting me have the last half hour
or the last hour of their show tonight. All right,
let's let's start the madness here. Good evening, Mike and Josh,
how are you guys doing?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Very good? Very good? How are you good?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
So each one of you guys got a seventy three
two and that's what we're going to talk about tonight.
He did, right, Oh boy, Okay, So yeah, we talked
to all right, I talked so a huge shout out
to Gigaparts who sent all these radios to us. Absolutely,
this was Robbie's idea. He texted. He called me like

(04:50):
like two weeks ago and he's like, and they were
supposed to get the radios in and then they were
delayed and they were delayed again, and blah blah blah blah.
You know, typical. This happens every time a new radio
comes out from anybody. It doesn't matter, and that would
not be an issue with the mac tim I hate you,
go away. I'm gonna ban you form my channel. So
uh yeah, but he called me, He's like, hey, I

(05:12):
would like to send one to the three of you
guys and have you guys go on a live stream
and just talk about it together. And I'm like, that's
a great idea. So uh so you guys, Uh, thank
thank Robbie for that.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Thank you, Robby, thank you.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
It's it's just one of it. We're sharing it, we're live. Yeah, yeah,
it's all of ours.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
We just keep it at my house. That's it, right.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, Mike has it and Josh and I are green
screening it right now. That's right, it's all ai. Uh,
Carlos says he's loving his Mark two. When are you
gonna drop it out a plane?

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's what I want to know. That's the real test. Yeah, yeah,
gotta gotta see you drop it out of a plane.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
But yeah, loves it.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Right the middle screen here is is is my radio
right in front of there's my hand right there. Uh
so first.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
My head is cut off.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's crazy, it's not it's not in my screen.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
You're good on the YouTube, Josh.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, yeah, you're good on your second.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh weird. Okay, now we're good. Got a refresh.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Okay. Yeah, So have either of you taken this to
the field yet?

Speaker 4 (06:15):
I have not yest sort of okay.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
So today my yeah, my patrons and channel members already
have the video. I took it out today. So I've
done four videos on this so far, only one of
which is published, but I've done I'm doing a lot
of comparisons, so I want to see current draw on

(06:44):
receive and on transmit. Today I did. I went, I
took it out to the park and just did like
I took both the seventy three hundred and the Mark
two out to the Park and just kind of ab
compared the audio quality just listening to different stations and

(07:04):
you know, just like self generating noise, how they compare
how they sound with like no filters on, with notch,
with pre amps on, with noise reduction. I did a
lot of tests like that. I mean, they're not very
scientific because I did them, but just I mean, it
was just me out with how I shoot every single

(07:26):
one of my videos. All of the radio's audio is
just from the lab mic that I use. I never yeah,
I never pull audio like I never plug anything directly
into the radio to record the audio that way. So
I just published that and then I did something else.
I have three videos that are not published yet one
another one will come out tomorrow whatever I choose. So,

(07:50):
but yeah, it's they're they're there. They are different, but
they're very much the same. I mean, it's a mark too,
it's a it's a you know right.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, So okay, so what's the what's the biggest difference
you've noticed?

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Uh, you know, I mean obviously the CWD.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Coder's Josh hadap a minute ago.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, I'm my noise floor is so bad at home,
it's it's hard for me to. It's hard for me
to do radio stuff at home because it's just horrible,
so I have to wait to go out into the field.
But I have done some CWD coding here at home

(08:33):
and it looks to be fairly decent. It does follow
it like auto adjusts to the speed of the person sending,
so unlike unlike other radios in my experience where you
kind of have to set your own keying speed. Two yeah,

(08:55):
like the G ninety, I think is that way. It's
just automatically knows how fast they're going, so it so
it kind of works that way. So I think I
come did a good job at that. I still need
to experiment more with that. But one thing for me,
just as someone let's get let's get over to this

(09:17):
one as someone who uses their seven oh five earths
excuse me, seventy three hundred a lot, and I go
between power SWR, ALC. I switched between the meters a lot,
and typically with the icons you'd have to just touch,
you got to touch right here and cycle through. Well,

(09:38):
now you just touch it and it brings up that menu.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
That freaked me out when I did that for the
first time, I thought I was flipping it over to
a different band or whatever. And I was so used
to just flipping right on the screen and being very
touchy with it, and it was like, yeah, straight to
s w R.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Great, that's exactly what I wanted or whatever that was.
That was really helpful. Does the seven O five not
act this way? Doesn't it when you click on? When
you click on the screen of seven five, doesn't it
open a menu?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Now this is the only one that does that. So
now we can switch. We don't have to cycle through.
We can just go SWR ALC you know multifunction. There's
all your meter.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
You used to have to go to menu and then
change it to meter mode. Yeah, which it still works
that way too. All the traditional settings work.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Just more of a convenience. I like that, But I
mean freaking USBC for the win.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
I gotta say, I just was copying the ABRL bulletin.
That's very good code. So it was, you know, spot on.
But I was chased in the parks on the air
activation today, made a contact with them very easily. It
did a great job. You now, not one hundred percent
copy because a human is doing the keying. That's more
on that side than it is on the receiver side,

(10:55):
and it did it pretty low down into the you know,
much lower signal strength. It copied it really well. This
is copying right now and you can see it's it's middling,
but we'll keep an eye on it. I do have
high RFI on seven mega hurts, so that's that's part
of the reason. But you can see there on that
little that green line.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
For the waveform.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
You can see where it comes up, you know when
when you're getting the dits and DAWs. It's it's pretty
cool to watch it.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
See if I can hear this guy? Probably not.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, the screen is very crisp. I saw somebody say
that in the chick is a.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Different screen yean the other ones? Yeah, yeah, I agree
with that. That's it's more contrast my screen, does it?
My screen looks more blue on camera here in this
setup that I'm using, but the blacks are more black,
the whites are more white. It's more contrast. I was

(11:48):
outside today but it was cloudy, so I couldn't really
I can't really tell you if it's better or worse outside,
but it's pretty awesome for those that are asking. The
o v F flight is still there. Yeah, let me
let me just say something about that really quick. Let's
just put everything to zero. That is my noise floor

(12:12):
at home.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
That is a crazy that's you need that kid.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's I have.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Probably more than that.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
You don't know how many chokes I have going into
this radio. It doesn't your intent. The antent is picking
it up. But I'm surrounded by power lines that are
putting off a lot of r F. I'm surrounded by
neighbors who have Christmas decorations, and and like I see
it turn on and off sometimes throughout the day. So
less than anyone is like, oh, the ov F flight
is still there. Well, yeah, that's that's my noise floor.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
So that that's like you're on the surface of the sun.
It's like we're getting a doctor Tammoth the stove of
sun report looking at your waterfall.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's but on the other on the other hand, let's
let's look at this and turn this into a positive.
That's my noise floor at home. Okay, see the ov
F flight going off, and you still can turn FT eight.
Yeah I do. Yeah, there's FT eight. Always these always
FT eight. So we can turn the reference level down
on the scope, which it goes to minus twenty. Let's

(13:12):
just put it to like minus fifteen. I mean this,
I have to do this my seventy six ten too,
and then we can turn the RF game down a
bit and clean up that waterfall. And we can still
see the signals there, so you can clean it up,
but you can't. You can't fix power line r FI
when your power lines are right next to your antenna.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Pretty now, I noticed too, since you brought up noise
and we're talking about that, the noise reduction function seems
to work better than the seventy three hundred.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
First, yes, it is slightly improved.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yes it was not distorted is the wrong word. But
you know how you turn on noise reduced and it
sounds kind of watery, like somebody's underwater a little bit.
This was very clear, and there was two stations going
back and for well, it's actually a Numero stations that
were trying to get this Santa Train special Events station.
I got it, but I was using the noise reducer
while it was on it. It was sounding really good,

(14:09):
better than the seventy three hundred. And that's kind of
how I'm looking at this too.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
For everybody in the chat.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
I know people are saying, what's your biggest disappointment and
all that I'm looking at like the seventy three hundred,
which is a benchmark radio from my point of view.
They took all of that and then like what have
they added to it? And it's it's an impressive amount
of features that they've added. I've been impressed so far.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's a it's maybe I should drop this video tomorrow.
I don't know what vide I'll drop tomorrow. But the
when when you're comparing, when you have both of them
next to one another, I mean physically they're they're identical
in terms of aesthetics. The receiver is a little bit quieter,

(14:51):
just the if you're if you don't even have an
antenna plugged into them and you crank the volumes of
both of them. The Mark two is a little bit
quieter in terms of like self generated noise. It's a
little bit different like pitch of static as well, which

(15:12):
for me is nice. It's a it's a little bit lower,
a little bit warmer. I mean, we're talking about static.
But and I don't have the I opened this Sunday
at like six thirty at night, so I don't have
a lot of hands on time with it. None of
us do, especially you, Josh.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
You just got it yesterday, didn't you yesterday afternoon? Yeah,
when I laid hands on it.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, But it's it's a they sound different. There is
a noticeable difference in the overall audio quality of them.
But we got to keep in mind. I mean, the
seventy three hundred is I don't know if it's like
the best selling ham radio of all time, but there's

(15:55):
like one hundred thousand of them out there. I don't
know when a thousand, seventy seventy three hundreds out there.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
It's also about ten years old, yeah, close to it. Yeah,
with the yeah, and with the with the way technology
moves these days, that's a that's an old freaking rip.
Think about a smartphone from ten years ago, how well
it would work today?

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
So, and there's seventy three hundred is still a rock
solid radio, the original one. Yeah so yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I mean the seventy three hundred is out of all
of the radios that I own, the radio that I
use the most because I don't operate from home very much,
and when I do, it's usually on FT eight. So
if I'm blowing up your ham alert on FT eight.
It's probably because I'm sitting at home and playing radio
because like sideband, you guys saw my noise floor. Like sideband,

(16:41):
for me, is is a challenge a lot of times
because I'm looking at an S nine or some noise floor.
Like right now, we're well, I got the RF gain down.
I'm still in S six and my RF gain is
at like ten o'clock, you know.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
So I can hear that guy on CW, but he's
not he's not showing him my scope at all, but
I hear him my ear here is I'm looking for
a bit cleaner. He's gone right now, but signal to
pull in here.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
See if we can find something a little bit better
to see the d code. But like I said, pot
A station was able to copy, no problem. Probably one
out of every ten characters wasn't exactly on. But then
the ABRL bulletin was just rock solid. At fourteen is
a four seven five fourteen point zero four seven five.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
There's a guy at seven o five to five.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
I see one on pretty good here fifty three, but
he's going slow code.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Where's the menu for D code?

Speaker 3 (17:33):
I'll turn that on, turn it into CW mode. Hit menu,
and then it's the top center button.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
There's a there's a Mega hurt span of my noise floor.
Good lord, So like it kind.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Of gets clear a little bit in the middle, but
above and below he's just and again that's I got
our f game down, like and the ref is down.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
So it's insane.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, it's there's, there's everything. There's there's just wide open
one Mega hurts wide. That's that's just what I get
to deal with.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
So if somebody has their radio going, I'm on seven
dot zero five four Mega hurts. If you want to
do a test with your call sign, I'm sure Jason
can tune over there too.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
And yeah, yeah, I can hear that. We'll have two
radios doing code.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
And we'll compare how good the signal is.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'm sure my vertical and Tron ninety nine CB intenda
will received just as well as Josser's step by step.
I'm sure that's practically, yeah, practically the same with guys
are asking about my two point oh hat. This is
a brand new hat. Shane uh laser print these for me.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh he was just saying that on the live stream.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, so I got I got five of them. I'm
keeping one. I'm gonna sew for they're expensive. They're a
high dollar. Because Shane's just getting started, he didn't get
the discount yet. But I'm working on that. So uh
more to come on that later. We're not we're not
really talking about that tonight. But yeah, seven O, yeah,
I got a guy on seven oh five five that's
coming in pretty good. Mm hmm uh kent qs and

(19:07):
then a bunch and then he speaking kling on after that.
I don't know, but let's see, I'll tune down here
to seven.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
So the uh the other major features I think we
touched on receiver CWD code. Obviously, the receivers like you know, again,
as Jason pointed out, ten year old radio, they got
to go through and you know, clean some things up,
new technology, so why not capture that. But on the
backside of this thing, that's where a lot of the
stuff is going on. That's yeah, you get USB C,

(19:37):
you're getting HDMI, you're getting a local area network port
for like remoting into it, and an external receive only
antenna which those are all those you can you can
have ones in and out. It's it's an in out
receive so you can only have one receive antenna working

(19:57):
at a time, so it's not like the seventy SI
where you would have diversity receive or the ability to
kind of fade phase things in and out. This is
just straight up for people like Mike, when you have
a really high noise floor, he could put like a
loop on the ground antenna or a beverage on the ground,
and then he could run that into the back of
the seventy three hundred mark two and then that could

(20:18):
be his receiving antenna and he'd still have the vertical
or whatever for transmit.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
You want to know the ironic thing though, you're doing
that right now. No, the only place I can put
a loop on the ground because I have like sixty
feet behind the house. But it's it's not deep at all.
It's directly underneath the power lines. Oh no, yeah, yeah,

(20:43):
that's the only place. So like, I'm screwed. That's that's
why I do so much more. I Mean, I like portable,
but that's why I like. For me, I can't just
throw a new radio on the bench and hook up
the antenna and be like here you go, because it's
just my noise flare is so bad. But good testament
to Icon Radio because you can clear it, clean up
a lot of that crap because again, look at look

(21:04):
at I'll clean my waterfall looks now.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
So I'm gonna take We're gonna go. We're going to
Galveston the day after Christmas. We're gonna spend a week
and a half down there through New Year's. Hopefully I'll
do a Happy.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
New Year's New Year's the activation there like we usually do.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, we can do that. I'll be there through
the third.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
We should take our gigaparts loaned seventy three hundred mark
two's on the beach and get them full of salt air.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
I mean, I was gonna I was gonna literally do
that and say, Robbie, I don't know what happened to it, buddy,
I'll give you for it, you know. Yeah, I told
him I was taking mind Poda. I'm I'm absolutely taking
mind Poda that week.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Because yeah, I'm actually going up to.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Lake Arrowhead here in the near future. So that's in
the snow I might get and that's a good altitude.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
I'll drag this.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Along and carible antenna, maybe a d X commander and
get going on that.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
I bet that would be killer.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
There is this kent Ka he said, there's no reason
the original seventy three hundred shouldn't get a firmware update
to decode CW. But I'm sure Icon will never do it.
Don't be too sure, right, because they did not have
the land option or the USBC or HDMI or even
video output until I think they had to upgrade the

(22:26):
whole chain for that. I don't know that there's a
processing body in this radio that can actually do the decoding.
If you're talking about the original to seventy three hundred,
I think there's significantly more under the hood if you
will to be able to make that work. I don't
think it's as simple as just oh, firmware and it's
all fixed. I don't think so. I think that's a
poor assumption to make.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
I would agree with that assessment. I think that you're
probably looking at a much different hardware circuit board, CPU
processing unit and all the kind of good stuff under
the hood. Since it does have all the stuff on
the back that the original model didn't have. Well, yeah, good.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Josh, you've got the overhead cams. What's say we just
take it apart on the live stream.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
I don't know that.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
I think Radio Robbie before. Well, yeah, of course if
it's my warranty now I'm going to have to pay
for it, if if I if I. Yeah, I don't
know what happened, Robbie. I actually this is actually Mike's
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Right, Yeah, you guys just switch serial numbers. Yeah, he's
got the one that got opened up. Gigapart Huntsville is
in the chat right now, and he starts laughing when
I started saying about sand in there.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
So well, you let me know if you want to
crack the box on this thing. Guys, right, I just.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Did crack it open. It's just probably's got money, he
can afford it.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
That's that's my guess.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
As well.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
There has to be more compute, some kind of a
new fpg A type of thing that they're.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Running to allow for the actual decode. So yeah, and
it should be some great man puta in the chat
earlier that the original seventy three hundred came out in
twenty sixteen. That sounds about right. I didn't fact check that.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, it can great. When I got licensed, I remember that.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, it was the first year that Hamvention was in Xenia.
I remember that because I was helping Richard at the
main trading booth that they had. They were outside, and
I remember him telling me that ICOM said, don't discount
this radio brand new, and that year everyone sold out
at the fourteenth fourteen ninety nine. Is the price of

(24:29):
this radio today, brand new? The original seventy three hundred
was also fourteen ninety nine, and you know, everybody discounts
everything at ham Vention, but but I come said, please
don't discount this radio, and all the vendors were out
of him by the end of the weekend. They were
a very popular radio and have been every No, it
didn't need to.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well this radio, the OGRE hundred. I mean, I'm kind
of late to the game being licensed in twenty sixteen,
but kind of changed. Yeah, radios as we know, like
this is absolutely ye Was the ninety one before or
after this?

Speaker 1 (25:06):
I want to that's a good question. I want to
say it was before was it? But then ninety one
Remember is has vhf UHF all mode, and the receiver
on a HF radio that has vhf UHF is usually
not as good as a HF only radio.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
I was looking at the Sherwood report, the nine ninety
one is way.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, well and the new and Yazu traditionally Yazu has
excellent receivers in all their newer radios, but that FX
won the receiver and it's not nearly as good as
the FTDX stand the FT seven ten, yeah, because it
because it's more of a shock in the box radio presumably.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
But you gotta say the Sherwood reports with a grain
of salt though, because that's what a what a what
a highly sensitive instrument in a controlled environment, in a
controlled environment, that's not what your ears are hearing.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Right, So still a good indicator. It's a good starting
point though, So it's data, but it's it's yeah, it's
I have it. I have a really good.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Okay, So Ham stops saying nine ninety one was before? Yeah, okay,
oh yeah it was.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
I was thinking it was before, but I can't remember
it is.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, but look what Icom did with the seventy three hundred.
Like I remember watching when when Ray was on Smoking
Sowder with I was new Ham and I'm like, okay,
do I get the nine ninety one or do I
get the seventy three hundred? And I I do what
everybody does. You watch every video you can on him,

(26:34):
and because everyone's got a little bit different take right.
But then Ray was on there and he was showing
the menus and he's like, so right now, we're in sideband,
So if you just hit the menu button, you get
things that are pertinent to sideband. But if we're in CW,
if I can hit c W, then you get things
that are pertinent to CW. Right, So it makes sense.

(26:57):
It's just it's a very intuitive menu system. And I
I own more yeaces than I do Icons, but I
prefer operating with Icon radios. I like them both I do,
but I come just they they get it. They know
how to make a good user interface, and they know

(27:19):
how to make a great radio. And it's just, uh,
you know, we've got if you have a seventy six
ten or a seventy three hundred or seven oh five
or even their HTS.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
He's got the whole line up. Hey, you gotta you gotta,
you know, celebrate.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
What I thought Ray was going to be here tonight.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Oh you're trying to show off, Okay, just.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
You know, you gotta you gotta present the things you're
you're gonna feel very at home with an icon and
even if you're even if you're new to radio, you're
gonna feel comfortable. I think you would anyway using these radios.
They're very they're very very easy, very intuitive to use,
especially on the fly when you got to when you're out,
when you're operating, especially like during a PODA activation. I

(28:07):
don't generally run with like the notch filter on. Well,
you want a notch filter, you just do that, right, done?
You know, it's simple.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Well, you can also hit the button.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
You can do that too, but shut up or do
that and you can change it and you can long
press it and you can adjust the narrow and auto
or wide and rather whatever. Shut up.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
So the so a couple of the guys in the
clubhouse or in the chat asking if you can customize
this quick button here, and I haven't tried that. But
there's only two options.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, there's only two things in there, which is kind
of weird.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Isn't usually a mode based though when you're it it is,
But like I was in sideband yesterday and there were
still only two options in there.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah. So on sideband you've got meter select and record
start on cw ME select record starts.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
So I haven't tried to customize that. That's a good question.
I'm gonna have to look that up. If you guys
haven't tried it, then yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
I don't think you can. I think that's just all
you get. Now.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Something I'll switch over so you guys can see this
a little bit better, but something that I think is
a big, a big deal. Okay, if you haven't, if
you haven't really done this right, I don't have it
connected to land right now. But if you hit the
menu button and then hit set and then that network
option is a new option. When it's connected to your
local network, it will pull an IP address and you

(29:30):
can use that IP address with like there's a number
of SDR control applications for iOS. I think there's one
for Android too, But you can fully remote this like
it's it's now remotable, Like if you've had a VPN
at home, you can set that up if you go
down to the bottom here under remote settings, you can
actually set a second user as well, and they can

(29:51):
be either an administrator user or just a you know,
regular user. And so that gives you like all kinds
of really cool functionality again, for what is in that
first time HF base station entry level point is right,
pretty awesome that they brought that higher level feature down
to the to the entry level space, which I like, Yeah,

(30:12):
you can do a lot with that.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's pretty cool. It's kind of like the so the
original seventy three hundred would sort of kind of do that,
but you had to have it connected to a computer, right,
and then the seventy six ten and seventy seven sixty
have it built in. And so say they've brought that
thirty five hundred dollars level feature down into the fifteen
hundred dollars radio, which is fantastic. Yeah, fantastic. So I'll

(30:35):
look forward to trying that. So I've had that icon
remote software for a long time. I've just never I've
never toyed with it because I don't have the seventy
three hundred here in the shack and I don't have
another radio either.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
So another thing about it is you just use it
when you're like in and around the house on your
little device.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Just yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
You can just get to it, do what you're gonna do.
Run FT eight the way it was meant to be done.
While you're doing something else, right, Yes, for sure.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Another cool thing about this that does not exist, to
my knowledge in any other radio is we have two comports.
So notice I'm using FT eight right now and we're
switching bands all that stuff, right, But I also have

(31:25):
my logging software open, and if we tune the VFO,
my logging software is following and I can frequencies here. Yeah,
flex does if you want to spend eighty million dollars, well,
that's great, but I'm I have I've never been able
to do this. I would always have to go into

(31:46):
settings here and turn off use CAT when I wanted
to do FT eight. But now I have FT eight
open with CAT control and my logging software with CAT
control at the same time over USBC, and I'm using
a digirig USBC to USBC cable.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Is it opened for you to interfacing ports or you just.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
That's a great question. I'm glad you've asked that. Yeah,
so if we go, if we hit menu underneath the screen,
the menu button, let me get rid of myself here,
and then we hit set and we go connectors and
then we go down to page two. See that USB
function by default that's on Riddy decode that's right. Change

(32:38):
that to CIV and now you have two comp two
complete independent comports. Well, I viewer A viewer commented on
that on my video that I posted yesterday, and I'm like, what,
my seventy six ten doesn't do that?

Speaker 1 (33:00):
I think there's I want to say the seven o
five does that. I could be wrong. One of my
one of my radios does that. It might be a Yazoo.
I might have a Yazu that does that, but I
was thinking the seven o five did that.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
But I was going to be really upset if my
seventy seven sixty didn't do that. But I can confirm that, yes,
that it also does that that I certainly certainly should
do that seventy seven sixty.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
But yeah, good, huh well okay, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Mean that's that's which is unfortunate because I'm going to
put my seventy six ten pack here. I can't, dude.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, that's I mean, that's a lot of thing. That's
a that's something that a lot of people have wanted,
myself included, like why can't we have multiple comports? Why
can't we share across devices? Because I don't have WSJTX
connected to my logging software. I can, but the instructions
for the logging software are terrible, so you'll you'll never
know how to I will never know to do that

(34:00):
because I'm not a computer guy. But to just be able.
It took a little figuring out. I mean it took
me like five minutes to figure it out in all honesty,
just poking around because the guy was whoever in my
comment was like it has two comports, and I'm like, huh,
so I figured it out, and yeah, it works. It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Now, were you guys HDMI capturing? Yes, I am, You're okay.
I didn't even think to try that. I'm so used
to not having an hdu my port on my freaking radio.
Oh no in the back yeah yeah yeah play so
you so you're going out of the radio into your
capture card, yeah, straight out? Yeah yeah yeah no, that's
a great idea.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
In my seventy six ten, I have that stupid dv
I right to u HDMI cable and then into the
capture card where this is just you can finally just
and I don't even think I'm using a good HDMI cable.
I just grabbed whatever was in my closet and there
you go.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's good. So that's one of those things that the
ham radio manufacturers in general, you know, like USBC, they've
been really slow to adopt that for whatever reason, whether
it's licensing. Somebody said licensing one time, and I heard
a couple of them say, no, it's not licensing. So
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
But you do need to turn the external display on
good to know. So by by default it's turned off,
you get nothing. I just pluged in and oh I
did so, yeah, I had to turn mine on, which
is not a big deal. You just go into the
display on Windows Josh, eternal display.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
It might be that might be a plug and play thing.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
No, no, that's a radio thing. I mean out of
the box. My external display was turned off. And then
you have three different resolutions. Seven twenty is the highest,
so six forty by forty ten, twenty four by seven
sixty eight, and twelve eighty by seven twenty, so which
and then it'll also yeah, it's fine, that's fine. You
also have audio out over you HDMI, which I don't

(35:52):
know why you'd use that because I actually plugged the
HDMI into my second monitor here and it feeds all
the audio to the monitor, so it kills the speaker
on the radio and you only get audio out on
the monitor, which, well, why you want that.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
But if you're a YouTuber, I'm just gonna say you
got it. Yeah, you can do audio capture. And you
can actually do like Callum does when he gets on
the air and he's piping all of his received audio
over the air. You can. You can set up an
OBS for your HDMI audio capture to come out through
OBS instead of your monitor.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
It does not send your mic audio though.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
No, but you've got a mic right here.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, there's you could use this microphone.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
You could set it up. You could set it up
in OBS to do that. I suspect I suspect.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
You probably that. I discovered it kind of as I
was doing the video on it that I released yesterday,
and I said in the video like I didn't set
up a microphone and OBS to do that, So it
might it might.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Let's see you said set display.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yep, and then go down, keep going external display.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Mine's going on? Mine on? Huh. I wonder why yours
was off? That's weird.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
I don't know. Maybe it wasn't. I don't know. I
don't remember.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Oh yeah, I'm getting full audio out here. Yeah, yeah,
are you?

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna see if the seventy seven
sixty better do this?

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Can you pump that audio into the stream.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Though only if I turn on because I got to
push that into zoom. But for my string absolutely, yeah, yeah,
you poping into OBS easily. Just do a different audio
capture source.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
I've already got it. Yeah, and I'm controlling it on
the radio work. Yeah that was cool. Hey, hey that's
pretty cool. Yeah, that is great.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Be great to So you just made it. You just
made a new microphone and put an OBS and you
got it.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Uh, it should come up because you already have the
input for it on HDMI because it's a video capture device.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
So you're just pulling the audio off that video capture device.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Basically, you realize you're talking to me about this.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
I'm sorry, I follow you.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
I apologize. Oh yeah, that's that's that's we're not doing
that on livestream. Well, I'll take your.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Work for it something to uh, something to tinker with.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, but just the USBC alone for me is worth it.
I took you today, I looked it. I hooked it
up to my MacBook Air with the digit rig cable
the USBC t USBC. Those digitig cables are awesome and
they're like twelve box. They're stupid cheap. It's got fair
rights on both sides. It's shielded. I didn't get any
RFI into the computer. I don't have to put any

(38:52):
extra to rights on it. I just plugged the USBC
in and it worked and it was great.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
You just used the digitrig cable, correct, which is you
don't need the dig you rig because it's got its
own built in the ground.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Okay, so did you rig? Did you rig makes shielded
USB C to USB C cables also? Yes, Yes, they're fantastic.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Yeah, they are great. I'm just making sure I understood
what you said, correct.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah, and they're twelve bucks on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
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we should also mention whoever you, whoever you like, out
of all of us if you purchase things from gigaparts,
because they are the ones who sent us these radios
on loan. Use code K and M r D or Josh.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
K C five hw B, which I've already put that
to the top of the chat.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
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Speaker 1 (39:50):
Double points, double gigabucks.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
There you go on all purchases, not just Icon, that's right, anything.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yes, indeed, so.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
You're You're antenna looks about as dead as mine there, Jason.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yeah, well I've got there's something down here.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
The bands are not not in the greatest shape.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
No, they're not great. Somebody was I was on a
live stream a couple of weeks ago and somebody told
me that ten meters was open and generally.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
It was okay, Well, this was a couple of weeks ago.
Generally speaking, ten meters is usually open this time of year.
There's been more than one year where I've gone live
Christmas morning and done some ten meter ft eight just
for the heck of it, for like an hour Christmas morning.
I was like, oh, ten meters should be open, it's
that time of year again. But I have I turned
it on yesterday I couldn't get jack.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
So really I heard a little bit today when I
was out.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
I did not ft ft eight fta do I'm talking about?

Speaker 2 (40:46):
But yeah, oh, I don't know. I still have yet
to make a contact with this radio.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
I made an I made a sideband contact yet my
first up when I plugged this radio up, I plugged
it into my vertical ten meter antenna and I'm tuning
up and down, and there was a guy call and
CQ on twenty eight four twenty. I don't know what
he was smoking. He's on twenty eight four twenty, but
he side stapped that for a second and U. But
he was out there and I could hear him, and
I could hear a couple of the stations he was

(41:12):
talking to. Okay, he was probably like a five to five,
but I went back to him and he immediately picked
me up gave me a five to seven. And that's
that short video that I put on YouTube this morning.
But yeah, it was, uh, it was very easy to
make a contact on ten meters yesterday. But that was
the only station I heard between twenty eight three and
twenty eight five. So I tuned up and down the

(41:32):
band two or three times.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
So I didn't even get out of twenty with this thing.
There was all kinds of stations I was working when
I go, oh, you only right on the box and
just started making contacts immediately with Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
So yeah, there was there was some stuff. I will
tell you that I will say that my ten meter
vertical intenna, which is the only one I have up
right now, it will not tune that intenna for twenty meters.
Oh and the flex I have back here with its
own internal ATU will tune my vertical intenna for ten fifteen.

(42:03):
Well it is a ten meter, but it'll tune for fifteen, twenty,
and even forty, although the output on forty is pretty low.
But the internal tuner on the seventy three hundred mark
two will not tune this intenna behind me for anything
but but ten meters. So just I mean, yeah, internal
tuners are are limited anyway, and that's okay. It's not
a it's not a multi band INTENDA anyway, so it's

(42:25):
not really supposed to be made for that. So yeah,
three to one is generally the Yeah, general can make that.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
The base station radios will say, I'm I would I
would hope that the fence maybe has.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
A little bit more. Yeah, can we can we tune
one hundred and sixty meters on an eighty meter and fed.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
No here, we should be able to no, get right,
it goes beep.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah, it's like no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, it's
the same it's the same tuner.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Did you try holding it down? Yeah, yeah, he did,
that's on.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Oh okay, I didn't hear the click, so you're at thirty
eight oh six, come on.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Yeah. But like look as I go north in the band,
I start getting all this noise. It's just everywhere is noise.
Found it at Casa Day Murder. The click on the
multi knob a little bit more significant as well, just
another little detail. I use the multi knob as my VFO.

(43:27):
It's got some resistance to it. I just use I
use this more than my VFO because I can, just
because you just go on one killer herds steps. Yeah,
that's how I do the VFO on my on both
the seven oh five and the seventy three, more than
I do actually using the VFO. But I've been I mean,
everything else is the same. It's just sounds a little

(43:53):
bit better. It's got new updated features. I mean, how
many people have we heard asking about HDM.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Conversation every time a new radio comes out? Does it
have HDMI? Are they still doing DVI?

Speaker 1 (44:06):
I what are they doing?

Speaker 2 (44:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
It sounds like again, I probably have the least amount
of time between us three and with it, and I
have made CW contacts with it. Sounded real good and
single side band sounds real good, better than the original
seventy three hundred. My seventy three hundred is literally like
in a go box. So I have to release it
from its clutches to be able to do an AB comparison.

(44:30):
But I'm thinking about it for this weekend to go
do something fun with it.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
But yeah, there you go. He's got that waterfall going
to with the lava action BRB.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
That's right. Oh, he's gone.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yeah, there's somebody there. No, that's not okay, it's pretty
opened up there. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
If I can't, i'd have to read connoiter my my
audio here to Can you feed the audio in?

Speaker 2 (45:03):
I can? I can do it if you give me
a second.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Sure, yeah, go ahead. I don't have a I don't
have an HD mid on my on the radio at all.
Right now, Oh, I see, okay, let me where's my
VB audio cable? There? It is.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
All right, and let's see.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
You may lose me.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
I don't actually know what's gonna happen here. No, I
mean my audio might fall out, so let me.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Oh, okay, okay, I heard somebody talking down there. I

(45:57):
heard static for a second, Josh, I can't hear you
talking though.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Yeah, so, uh what you can output it, but I
have to rejoin a bunch of audio. I was not
purchased to do that for this, but yes, you should
be able to do that.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
You should be able to do that. Yeah, that's gonna
be a cool experiment. I think. Are these working icons
as when we're going to see a contact being made?
Watch the vertical video I put on the channel this morning.
I made a contact on ten meters yesterday.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
But the short answer is yes.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Short answer yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, these are These are
the real the real ones. These are the real thing,
the real thing. Well didn't I uh well you're while
you're playing here, I'll flip mine around then I'll show
the uh yeah back okay, yeah, work all right, good,
Yeah I was going to do that. But if you're

(46:55):
going to do it then yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
See. Now I want to figure out how to get
the audio into this.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
I know I'm gonna have to tinker with that sum later.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
That's way above my head.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
Uh oh usp audio device hang on, uh obs sees it.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Should it's there. You should be able to feed it
off the HDMI mic.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Yeah, yeah, I've got it. I mean it's here. Let's
where's Uh can I do inception? There? We are? Hang on,
let's get rid of that. Uh no, oh that's different.
Never mind? Yeah what am I doing here?

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Eight?

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Oh? I only have it on that.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Yeah that's about right. Fifteen hundred dollars. Yeah, correct.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
So the back here has got everything you'd expect. But
right there, all huddled up next to each other is
your land port, your HDMI, and your USBC. And then
above that that's the new input output RX antenna receive space.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
They want proof evidence that this is working. You must
make contact with with someone.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Oh is the fan different in the back? The fan
is different in the back, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (48:40):
I've just it's been so long since I looked at
my seventy three hundred Mike. Can you can you confirm
or deny? This is a bigger fan?

Speaker 6 (48:48):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (48:49):
I'm pretty sure they're the same really okay size? Yeah,
because I've had them next, I've had them right next
to each other. I'm pretty sure it's same size fans.
It looks like it's different, but I'll take your word
for it. This is only coming through as mono. But

(49:10):
it's not. I'm not feeding it through the stream the
audio or am I can you hear that?

Speaker 1 (49:25):
No? I had my volume turned up over here, but no,
I don't hear you. There's a guy on three six
seven six that I was hearing pretty good. Mm hmm,
there he is. Let's see.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Yeah, it's coming into OBS, but I can't figure out
how to how to get it into the stream.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
For a number of folks say in AB comparison, I
think you might have to go to Mike's video. He's
got an AB compare video out.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
I literally just filmed it today.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Okay, yeah, I'll probably have something out next week because
I got to go shoot it. I have to free
my seventy three hundred. Well maybe I'll just take the
go box out and just put it next to each other.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
What is it like fix fixed in the box?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Yeah, it's literally like mounted firm mounted with a oh,
because you.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Got it in that it's a it's on a rack.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
It's on a rack, and then it's bolted onto the racks.
I have pull the rack out and unbolted. I mean
that's how you want it. That's the point Yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Where my seventy three hundred is. It's a it's in
a rolling six U go case.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
That's same as me. Yeah, mine lives in the Gigabarts
Explorer bag.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Thank you for the super chats from Tory, Silverland Brooks
and Jody. Thank you for the super chats guys.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Gigaparts also mentioned because this is a new Icon product,
you actually get double points with one of our codes.
But you also get double points for just buying a
new Icon product to actually get quadruple point quadruple points.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
What if you like points?

Speaker 1 (51:23):
HRC wants to see an actual contact.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
You're leaving money on the table if you don't buy
one of these folks, right are what do you think?

Speaker 5 (51:33):
Right?

Speaker 2 (51:35):
All right, well let me see if I can do something.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Yeah, see if you can. Yeah, I already did a contact.
It's already on the channel. I'll put it on the
channel this morning. Ten meters, that's the only ten I
have a prent now, I'm I'm I'm really looking forward
to doing some PODA with this thing. Honestly, what happened.
I took down my diepole and I just have a
ten meter vertical up right now. I've got to I

(51:59):
want to put my head spam up. What I need
to do? Don't you have a vhq X, Yes, I do.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
If I could put one of those up, I would.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Well, if we weren't looking at moving soon, I would
have put one up ready.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
But okay, would you would you figure out? No, I'm
just getting the radio back.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
I had it.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Uh, I was shown the back of it. But now
people are like, make a contact with it.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
What can I do here?

Speaker 3 (52:34):
Well, we've got it in my Yeah, I can hear
it here. But I'm assuming that's not very good for
you guys, So.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Let me figure out what to do about this. Yeah,
it's got the three and a half millimeter phone out
and I have quarter inch. I could easily pump it
into my radio, but I don't think I have a
quarter inch to eighth inch adapter.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Mm hm.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
And I can't get the HDM. I. I don't think
that's a radio problem. I think that's okay. And I'm
already lack of technological intuition problem.

Speaker 5 (53:14):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Okay, am I duping right now? Maybe I can still Okay,
can hear me?

Speaker 1 (53:20):
I hear you? I hear your voice, josh I don't
try this. Still hear me, I hear you and the
radio now, okay, we got it?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
All right, you got it? All right?

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Let me do it?

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Is that over HDM I ord you just plug in
the phone.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Yeah, well, if you give me enough time to around
on my stream, I'll get it right.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
Oh boy, all.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Right, well there we go. At least we know it works.
Does work, just not for me? Story of my life.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Now.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
The problem is like, did you just do that an
obs or you got some other stuff.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Not hearing your radio now, Josh, not hearing the radio
at all? I heard? Yeah, yeah, that's the that's the
all right. I'm not Oh. I was hearing it for
a minute and then you muted it or something.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Was the volume down on the radio? Now? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (54:26):
I turned it again?

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Part of the problem is I can't hear it because
I'm not what's wow? You hear that?

Speaker 2 (54:38):
One might want to change? Want to q s y there?

Speaker 1 (54:41):
All right, little little R seventy two hundred. I wasn't
paying attention there. That was not attention, folks. I'm sorry.
That was.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
That was It was like the I just saw I
just saw a signal that I.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Was the comedy factor was worth my god, I'm sorry.
Did anyone Did everyone hear that on the live stream?

Speaker 2 (55:08):
It was?

Speaker 1 (55:08):
I think it was. It was kind of quiet here,
but yeah, I'm pretty sure it was I made I
made it out. Sounds like Carlos is on the radio.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Yeah, I don't see nothing on that frequency. You want
to listen to some Asian am Absolutely. What's the easiest
way to do this?

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Because I can't hear the radio now because it does
shut off.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
So that's one thing.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
When you do go to HDM I, it doesn't output
the audio out the speaker.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
So maybe that's a setting. Turn on monitor and output
in o BS, and then you should be able to
hear it through your own head.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
I did, but to pipe the audio. If this was
just on my stream, I'd be able to do it,
no problem. But because I'm piping it into zoom into zoom, yeah, okay,
exactly so, but at least I can hear the radio.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Did you just do audio input capture?

Speaker 3 (56:19):
No, I changed the I changed the audio output in
OBS the monitor to push it into zoom.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
No. No, but just to hear the radio because I can
get OBS to see it. Yeah, Like I've got a
meter there for the market.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Now I'm I'm a step beyond where you're at, Mike,
and I'm piping the audio out of OBS and into
Zoom using something called VB audio cable. So that Oh yeah,
that's the only way to throw it into Zoom. If
I was going to do this, but there should be
two outputs.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
That's all I got. Monitor I put. If you go
to Advanced Properties audio monitoring monitor and output. I hear
it in my ears.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
Now, yes, I can do that too, but then you
won't get it to zoom. No, you're not getting to zoom.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
But but at least you would be able to hear it.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Uh, can you guys hear my radio? Can't?

Speaker 3 (57:13):
I can't because the output is going into Zoom from OBS.
I can't hear it now it's over my head.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Okay, No, I cannot hear your radio mic.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
Okay, was there?

Speaker 1 (57:27):
No? Truly? If you put the h if you put
the audio out of HDMI, you lose it from.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Speak forms of the radio the speak on it. Will it?

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Oh yeah, that's an idea. Try try headphones.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Let me just do a proof of concept.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Yeah, if if if it was on your stream right now,
it would be a problem.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
No, that's going to my computer speakers. Now.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
The second I plugged it in the headphones into the radio,
it lost audio from the HDMI.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
So it only do one of the time.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Yeah, so well, I guess if they wanted to hear it,
they heard the audio because it.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Was they heard the seventy two hundred. They heard that.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Oh here comes Greg. Oh you should be able to
set it up. All we're not audio engineers, squat.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
So Greg, radio output HDMI to OBS. OBS is monitoring,
and I'm using the monitor on OBS the inside setting
to go to VB audio cable input and the output
is now my microphone on zoom, so that I can
pick up the mic and I can pick up the HDMI.
The problem is I can't hear the radio.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Now there you go. Tell me good tip from Gigaparts.
They are a computer store. Who have you turned it
off and on again?

Speaker 1 (58:47):
I mean, that's that's the And the mixer is not
going to help.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
I'm running an outboard mixer too.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
A mixer would work. Oh not with HDM. I not
with HDMI and you have to feed it with audio.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Yeah, we'll figure it. This is we're doing a live
we're doing it right, that's right. I didn't literally have
this radio.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
No, we didn't. Sorry quite Frankly, I don't think any
of us knew it would do that. I mean, or
we didn't think about it. Maybe because you, well you
didn't know what would capture audio. You're like, I don't
understand why I do that.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
I'm like, sodio, Well, yeah, extremely earlier earlier you said
you didn't understand why people would want to do that. Listen,
I'm confused.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
I know it's okay.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
I know both of you know that we know each other.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Well, Josh, your bottle is your water bottle is green.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
That's funny, I know, on purpose, just to drive people nuts.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Audio capture is killing him er radio. See, that's why
I always just plug a quarter inch jack in the
seventy six ten. Yeah, my live stream, and then I
go through my mixer and then that goes into the
computer and life is good. So, I mean, I'm sure
there's a way it does the thing. We just got
to figure out how to split the audio, right, Yeah,

(01:00:01):
I mean, gosh.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
I might work on that. If you are hosting the
live stream, you can do this no problem.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
Yeah, Because I'm a guest on zoom that's the problem. Yeah,
if I was hosting it, I'd be fine. I'd be
listening to it, I'd be monitoring.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
It'd be no problem, right right, And I don't have
an HDMI cable.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
So this Saturday right now, or I would do it.
So yeah, yeah, what other cool things are there to
talk about? Someone asked me my other Well, I'm when
to ask me if if we have the SD card
saved from the seventy three hundred, will that transfer to

(01:00:39):
the marketing question? Let's find that out.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
So while you're doing that, Mike too, come back and
let us know what what you saw as far as the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Draw.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
What's the improvement over the standard draw of the seventy
three hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Well, you'll have to watch my video. Oh, I guess
I don't want to spoil it. There is a difference
in current between the seventy three hundred and the seventy
three hundred. Mark two one is better than the other.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
You would think the Mark two draws more because it's
got more stuff in it. You would think so everything, Yeah,
maybe think so.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
So let's go set SD card loads settings.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Roasting me on the Ham Radio Clubhouse. Why that's what
did I do? It's it looks like it took it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Mike, Well, no, because it when it loads, it would
it would want you to read boot.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Mike already put his call sign in this thing already.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Of course I did.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
It's not going back to gig that's not going back
to Giga parts.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
I'm trying to trying to see what I can do
to not send this radio.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
It's really like for everybody seventy three in the seventy
three hundred mark two box and send it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
They've already paid to ship it to me, right right,
So like as a does it make good business sense
to pay to ship it twice?

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
No? That one way to look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
The button I just want to load.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
I don't know if I've saved. I don't think this works.
This isn't working. I'm gonna go with no.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
No. The buttons are not back lit unless there's some
someone and turn that on. The buttons are not back lit.
Be cool?

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
If they were, yes, it would function.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Don't let's see pen pen uh display icon said they
are not compatible?

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Oh yeah cars, Yeah, okay, good because I was just
about to.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Know that was that was a question that was brought
up on the last Yazou livestream I did, and Yaesus
was not compatible for we're compatible either, so that does
not surprise me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
They're not compatible in all honesty. The only thing I
use my SD card for is like saving how I
have my display, like in terms of where the hell
is it? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Well, see that I use it to record my my CQ.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Yeah, yeah, so like how I have my waterfall all
that stuff it saves that does it? Which there's literally
nothing here, but like I have it so it's kind
of red and looks like fire. And then yeah, to
save your your cqs. That's all I use the SD
card for, and I guess for like updating firmware, but

(01:03:50):
there's so few few firmware updates because Icon just gets
it right out of the gate. They don't really need
firmware updates FTX excuse me, did you know the FTX
does not control the ATOSS on VHF.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
I heard that, Oh on VHF does atos even work
on VHF.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Yeah, it's a forty through seventy centimeter.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
Antenna, is it? Okay? I don't have an a TOSS.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
But when you go to the ATOSS setting on VHF.
It's the ATOS late is great out. I still haven't
fixed it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
And YEAHA knows about it because I talked to Antenna,
so I do too.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
It's called a U A toss on my Ford Explorer.
Well we're here to talk about icon so yeah, I
mean just for for me as someone who is moving
everything over to USBC. Yeah, and really my seventy three

(01:04:55):
hundred is kind of the last one other than my
seventy six y ten, but I don't take my seventy
six to ten portable. But it's kind of the last
radio that I don't have USBC on. And to be
able to have.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
What's one reason to do it? I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Yeah, but also think about this. So I bought my
seventy three hundred, used it used, it had never actually
been used, but I paid less for it. So now
there's one hundred thousand plus seventy three hundreds out on
the market that that we've all enjoyed, or not out

(01:05:35):
on the market, but out in the wild. So my
very first HCHEF radio was a YUFT four fifty that
I bought used from a ham locally. Got a heck
of a deal on it. So I'm thinking we should
all sell our seventy three hundreds because we've all gotten

(01:05:56):
unless you just bought it, we've all gotten plenty of
life out of it. So now that is true. What
so here's the thing, like, what can we do to
get new people into HAM radio? Well used gear? So
now there's going to be a flood on the market,
hopefully of use seventy three hundreds that's going to get
the next generation into HF radio for a fraction of

(01:06:20):
the price that you could buy the seventy three hundred.
Mark two we get, so we get to ham it forward.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
You are like just doing everything you can the mental genity. Yeah,
this thing right, Yeah, he's trying to talk himself into this.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Right now, I hear what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
I've already I've already kind of talked myself.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
The chat doesn't think that these radios could transmit.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
Okay, So I'm on seven one eight. I think I
can just crank the volume and you'll be able to
hear it. So let let me see the volume is
louder too, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
Yeah, I noticed that the volume is louder. So seven
I'll drop down there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
And it's quieter when it's loud.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Hel India six November oflf A Zulus is frequency and
us I will once again say that there's a video
on my channel of me making a contact on ten ters,
but for some reason that's not hel in DA six
is the frequency and is no.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
I heard somebody Kilo six November Alpha Zulu, Kilo eight
my Crimeo Delta Hilo Bravo.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Five station go ahead, just okay, here we go. Can't
hear you, Josh, okay, there it is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Jeesh preedy printed fake rads.

Speaker 7 (01:07:35):
Yeah, five stations, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
I think zoom is muting.

Speaker 8 (01:07:52):
November off upon anybody out there, anyone November Alpha Zulu.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Yeah, that's insanely loud.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Yeah. On our end, Or we could just do a
giveaway of our seventy three hundreds.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
I will give mine away for money. Absolutely. Can we
write off giveaways?

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
Yes, but it would be hard to write off of
radio that you've owned for ten years and used the
last ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
I haven't known it for ten years. I bought it
in twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Nineteen, okay for okay, for seven years in and made
tons of videos about so, I mean, you know it
wasn't expense you can write off anything. If you don't
get audited, you can. You can do all that. Whiskey
want something, there's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Like a noise gate or something.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
It's zoom.

Speaker 8 (01:08:54):
Yeah, Yankee, Charlie, Yep, go ahead about southern California.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Good job, Yep, Okay, there we go. We made a contact.
Ron would be happy to autograph the radio for you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
It would be worth even less if I go.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Yeah, dude, set there you go, there you go. We
we heard most of that. Josh, Zoom has an audio
gate on it, so it's cutting out the radio. But
we heard we heard eighty percent of it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
Yeah, that's not what the radio actually sounds like in
real life.

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
No, it sounds much better than that. But that's just
Zoom for you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Well, sorry, no, it's you're good. It worked. It worked,
everyone saw it. It worked. It was a Whiskey one station.
I heard that much.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
I mean, it's an icon, like, why would you expect it?
Would you should? It just works?

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Raise not in the chat, Just just stop it. Raise
not in the chat, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
I'm an I prefer I comes. I've I've been very
vocal about that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
I know you do.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
I know I will say it was the same reaction
I had when when I opened it up. I didn't
use the noise reducer on the seventy three hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
I didn't like this the way it sounded.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
Never used it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
This is this is fine, This is totally workable. This
is noise noise reduction is on right now.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
I believe what what number is it on?

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
Four?

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Yeah, I didn't do anything. I keep That's why I
keep mine app. Yeah, and it's perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
Well there you go, WHOA, my phone is jumping.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
I guess I tried to mess with the twin pass
ban tuning today to see because there were some stations
that were kind of adjacent, like a couple of killer
hurts up, but they didn't stick around for long enough.
But I had to move it like two hundred and
fifty hertz like I did there where on my seventy
three hundred. And this is probably take this with a

(01:11:10):
grain of salt, but I feel I had to move
in a bit more on the seventy three hundred than
on the mar too. But yeah, there's your twin pass
ban tuning, so you can kind of narrow down, notch
out or get rid of a Jason frequencies. Haven't tested
the notch filter either. But but the notch filter on
the seventy three hundred, just the auto notch, especially when

(01:11:32):
I'm doing PODA, I'll throw that auto notch on because
sometimes people like to tune up on frequencies. It just
it just gets rid of them, not straight gone. Auto
notch is fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
It's so good.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
Trying to think if there's anything else.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
Well, I think everybody can expect we're all going to
be having videos coming out here.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
Oh yeah for this too.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
So this is obviously I mean, it'd be tough to
do it all in an hour, to be like, yep,
this is everything.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
But yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
If you just take if you like the seventy three
hundred and you're like I'm thinking about getting one, and
you're like, I want all these other features, then there
you go. That's the whole thing. All these improvements. Just
take everything you like about the seventy three hundred and
they make it everything better.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Like it's much better. I it would have reduced the
HF receiver quality, but it would be nice to have
VHF UHF full mode in it, like the seventy seven
thousand and seventy one hundred. Had they took that out
when they made the seventy two hundred and seventy three hundred,
so it'd be nice to have that. However, the HF

(01:12:38):
section of the radio is much better since it doesn't
have that. So it's it's it's it's a give take thing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
Yeah, I'd like to see a hundred what version of
the seven O five basically, but you know, well, seriously, seriously.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Two amplifiers on it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Yeah, So I mean, because the seven O five is
a fantastic radio, it's just ten watts.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
But which is enough?

Speaker 4 (01:13:04):
Yeses, it is ehs sometimes it's it's enough, it is enough?

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
How is it versus the ftd X ten? You know
what that is? That is maybe the video I will make. Uh,
Mike's gonna do the seven the original seventy three hundred
versus the this one I might versus.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
That would be a good video. I've since yesterday, I've
had two emails from people, and I don't even say
anything about this other than in the comments. People want
to see it versus the ASU seven ten. Yeah, and
just jokingly, I'm like, we'll send me a seven ten
and I'll do it. Two people have emailed me now

(01:13:47):
who want to send me their seven tens. Oh wow.
One guy is right here in Spring in Texas. He's
like an hour south, I mean, not even. And then
another guy was like in Indiana or Ohio or something,
and I'm like, I don't know if I feel comfortable.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
Like, well, the receiver on this a d X ten
is better than the seven ten and I have the
d X tens.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Well we don't know that that one. Oh then yes, yes,
we don't know what it is on the Surewood report
for the mark too yet correct?

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
Correct, Yes, that's that's a correct statement. Yeah, yeah, why
not make it? Why not make an amp that you
could plug into a seven O five? They do. It's
called a Zaigu X one twenty five B No.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Good god them freaking uh. I need to sell that too.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
I mean that the Zaigu amp works. It'll push one
hundred and ten hundred and twenty watts with that seven five.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
I literally never use it, and it's sitting on my
work bench.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
It just sits there. I don't use mine much either,
but it does work. Mike's on that, uh for the chef. No,
not for VF, just for h chef.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
Yeah. I got that because of you, Josh, I got that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
The size is fantastic. It's great with you everywhere right now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
Well, I got the like the newest version too.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
So radiotity makes a bag for it now too.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Oh we're talking about the micro Pa fifty. Yeah, the
Micropa fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Oh I'm sorry, I thought just the little guy.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I used for the seven h
five or the FTX, depending on how I feel.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
But yeah, I think that's probably you know, Jason, that's
probably going to be the big line that people will
ask is I think the Mark two probably goes above
the seven ten and this is probably an FTD X
ten territories.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
I think what people are going to be doing the
comparisons on.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Where did where did I hear that this has like
twelve D be better receiver? I can't cite the source,
but I feel I heard.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
That that was what was told to me.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Okay, maybe I heard.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
I believe it was Ray when we were when we
were doing the live at Tokyo ham Fair. Oh right,
and he said twelve D be better than the seventy
three hundred, so you know the step up, which.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Actually, if I was just looking at the Sherwood Report
today before I went out, and he's actually got two
seventy six tens on there. He's got sample one and
sample two. One of the seventy six tens was below
the seventy three hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
Really, yeah, that doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
I'd just rove up by what my ears here.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
I think that you're right, Josh. I think we're going
to be in the FTDX ten territory because that radio
is about thirteen fifty ish, and I think once this
one's been out for three to six months, you'll probably
see it drop down in the twelve to thirteen hundred
dollars range. You know, like all new radios when they
came out at a certain price, they all drop. I've
heard a lot of people say, oh, they all the

(01:16:41):
Chinese radio drop because they suck.

Speaker 4 (01:16:42):
No, all radios do that, All radios do that. So
I mean again confirmation that Ray said it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Yes, Yeah, yeah, I'm seeing that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
On Black Friday of twenty nineteen, a brand spank and
new icon Ic seventy three hundred was eight eighty nine.
And then I remember when the seventy one hundred you
were getting those right at like for seven hundred seven. Yeah,
seven hundred bucks. Yeah, yep, yeah, not buy one.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Yeah yeah, that's another kind of cool radio. So receiver
not the same obviously, but no, I never cared.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
For the seventy one hundred. I love my seven thousand
for seven Yeah yeah, yep, you're right, you're right. But
uh yeah, no, it's a it's a it's a good radio.
So yeah, I think I think it. I think it
might compare. Let me put it, let me put it
this way. I wouldn't be surprised if it compared to
the d X ten. So that, well, you have them both.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
So you're the guy, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
I know. That's so, that's that's gonna be the it's
gonna be the video there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
I guess I got to do the seven ten.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
I guess you do.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
Yeah, that feels weird, like borrowing someone's radio, though, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Isn't that seventy six ten you have borrowed? I mean
it's you've had it for what three years?

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Go down, it's been longer than that. It's been longer
than it's been. I was still working. I think I
was still working for my old company, because when we
went up to Ray Roberts, right after I lost my job,
I had had it and I was going to give
it back and he's like, you don't have to give
it back yet. So it's still alone. Like I don't

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have the box for it. I don't have the microphone
for it. Oh and I don't use that because I
use this microphone.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Whatever, So, well, have we beaten this to death?

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
I think we've beaten it to death. I don't think
we all got do.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Our own videos questions from the chat or I'm not
really seeing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
Anything suggestions questions from the chat? What videos would you
guys like to see from the three of us from
you know, probably don't want to all do the same thing,
but you know, obviously we're going to use it on Poda.
Uh comparison to other radios? No, no mouse control? Does

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it have mouse control? But it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
It doesn't even have USB as USB. No, it's got USBC,
that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
Yeah, but that's for control like for cat control. It's
not for interface. Yeah yeah, I never quite understood that,
but I I.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
Know, yeah, I don't get that either. That kind that
seems kind of the G Sock. You're you're assuming that
G Sock was ever alive. You know, you can't die
if you never if you're never born.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
But was it still born?

Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
Still it's a stillborn project. Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
But I don't know that the touch screens on the
icons are are They're good? They're good.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
I don't know why, agreed.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
I've never felt the need to use a mouse with
any of my Ham radio.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
You know what you you know what you could do
if it has a good enough decoder, you could send
c W with a keyboard, if it had mouse control,
if it had human in HI interface device.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Don't you do that with f L DIG anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
You can't? Yeah, sure, yeah, but then you don't need
that if you have a direct control, direct keyboard to
the radio, so it's not a yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
I mean when I'm when I'm when I'm running Doom
on this, then I will want the mouse and keyboard setup.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
But until that time, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
Need You did have that radio that had like Super
Mario Brothers and stuff? Right?

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
What happened to that?

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
I gave it away? It was giveaway, Yeah it was.
It didn't work. Well, let me just tell you it
was not. That was not collab.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
We need.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
Maybe you need here's the deal, figure out how to
get the what was that Ham radio game that you
were live streaming for a while.

Speaker 1 (01:20:46):
Full quiet, Yeah, yeah finished finished the full.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
Or run ls DJ run ls DJ makes some hot
tracks while importing from the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Yeah, there you go, There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
Well, I have an idea that I might box up
my original seventy three hundred and do a giveaway on
a live stream and just ask for super chats to
pay for this new That's not a bad I mean,
you know, I'm going to give away radio. So let's
you know, let's.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
I've been wondering where my box for the seventy three
hundred is because.

Speaker 1 (01:21:16):
I yeah, I'm I'm I know where my nose, but
yeahs around here somewhere I keep my keep.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
I'm not going to buy this, Yeah, I'm going to.
I'm gonna Who am I king? I'm going to buy this?

Speaker 8 (01:21:26):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
Yeah, you're you're going to. Well that should be a notification. He's, well,
he got it sent to him and he could just
send it back, and he's like, no, you know what,
I think I'm going to keep it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
I think, well, Rob send in the email like yeah,
the problem is I'm not going to want to send
it back. I don't think any of us.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Right, right right. Well, and Robbie sent me an invoice
and he's like, hey, if you decided to keep it,
let me know and we can work on the price.
And I'm like, well, I hope so, because now it's
open box. Yeah, what an open box? But I got mine.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
I might already have a scratch on it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
I know, my guess mine is very well, get my.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
Man, salt water. I'm gonna smoking again. Yeah, smokers, radio.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
It Mine might actually smell like cigars when they get
it back, So.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
We'll bring them to the cigar bar. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
I just let it sit up there for like two days.
I don't know. I don't know what happened to it. Robbie.
It smells like our true with Flint. I get it,
but I don't know. I don't know how that happened.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
We should have a let's make a deal.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
Uh oh, smoke, smoke, Confused radios on sale today. Let's
make a deal with Giga parts. I love.

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
I love when we get yelled at the Cobbs built
in servers. The biggest upgrade you guys aren't talking about,
bro I already talked about.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
We talked about. Yeah, welcome to the fault. You weren't
here in the beginning. Thank you for watching.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
Yeah to the end of the live stream.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
But yeah, I hate when people would make assumptions like that,
just yeah, you didn't catch it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
It's cool.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Yeah, do you you have a specific question you'd like
to ask? Video game just a statement because it has
that nobody you need to know, which is which I
said in my video that I posted. It's freaking huge,
And actually Carlos at Life at Terminal Velocity did a
video showing it on the the app on his iPhone
whatever that app is. It's like forty five bucks, and

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I'm like, nope, because I would never be able to
figure out because I'm not on a computer. Guy, I'd
never be able to figure It's easy. It's easy.

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
I can tell you how to do it on the phone,
like thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
This is me, Like, this is you. It's easy. It's
an app.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
It's an Apple product phone. Now, come on application, it's
in the app store. You know it's going to be easy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
M remember when we set up that MFJ remote thing
when I still lived in Michigan.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
That is a completely different world by guy that is
look for like three hours.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
That was the whole nightmare. No, there's nothing like that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
I still have that. Yeah, but yeah, that is really
cool that that is a very important thing that that
uh we did. We did kind of glance over it
like it's got it, but none of us have it
hooked up, so we can't really show it. But yes
you can. You can remote into it. It's got the
land thing there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
Yeah. Vic is talking about doing some wind link with
it too, which would be totally easy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
But if anything, the developer of that app probably hasn't
integrated the new radio into the app yet. I could
be wrong, but right well, it sounds like Carlos is
already doing it, so never mind.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
I don't know what I'm well, yeah, you posted a
video I think such so so Mike, you had a
Mike you had a w s J t X one
up a minute ago. What what radio connection? Surely it's
not in ws jt.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
X yet, so okay, so by default, so it's I'm
just using the seventy three in ws.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
J W okay, seventy three I five games kids.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
But yeah, so let me go to uh this one here.
We did have to let me get.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
Rid of myself to turn on something in the menus
that's now he just got.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
We had to we had to change the CIV because
it was set to where the hell are you connecting
USB CIV? So I had to change the address to
ninety four h because by default it came as like
Bravo six h. Okay, so ninety four h is the

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seventy three hundred's address. So once I changed that, it works,
and I'm just using the seventy three hundred settings in
wsjt X.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Good okay, yep, definitely want to do some FT.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
That's so easy, Kate, I'm already can do it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
Now mikes up as USB audio device, not USB audio codec.

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
Yeah, everybody's asking Mike for you to do an APRS
video with this, So yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Yeah, that'll be the That'll be next Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Do it on APRS Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
We'll see you next tuesday with that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
Yeah, Mike, you could just leave the radio at Huntsville
State Park and then you could just remote into it
if you had.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Yeah, the problem is you and the station need to
be in the park to do that. Oh is that true?

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
You could be in a hammock, like a couple of
feet away at the Wi Fi access point.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
I could like I would have to buy a hammock. Yeah, yeah,
you can.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
Do all the things absolutely, Josh Mike, thank you for
joining me ton. I appreciate body and it's always fun.
It's been two long since we've been on the live
stream together. But yeah, good to good to hear from
you guys. Be looking forward to watching all your videos
about this new radio and glad you guys are enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
I learned a can I give a shout out to
BUCkies for this beautiful text?

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Is that what that is? That's a bucket? That is cool?

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Cool?

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
Yeah? I do like that. Good Okay, well, uh once again,
thank you to Gigaparts. That was Jeff in the chat
under the Gigaparts Huntsville I D and I really appreciate
you guys for the Loaner Radio. We're gonna make a
lot of videos after this one about that, and I
know everybody's gonna enjoy that as well, so special shout

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out to that and you guys go check out him
radio Clubhouse. I see Clubhouse in Gigaparts talking to one
another about the giveaway that Clubhouse wants to do in
about a week and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
So ah, hey, give me a seventy three mark too.

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
I don't think they have that much money in the bank,
but if they did, one of those that would be killer.
We would we would we would destroy on that one.
So yeah, good deal, but uh yeah, good stream. Thanks everyone,
have a good evening. And I was gonna say sorry
to keep you up so late, Josh, but it's actually
seventy's kind I'm gonna go hang out with the family.

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I'm thinking backwards, so but yeah, thanks coming on and
go hang out with the family.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
While remoting into the seventy three hundred mark too.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
Maybe do that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
Maybe you know he's gonna do it. You know he's
gonna do.

Speaker 1 (01:27:59):
All right, we'll catch you guys next time. Seventy three.
Thanks for joining, have a good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
Bye everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
So ya, thank you,