At 3/11/04 08:39 AM, Ragnar Otterstad wrote:
>I called ICOM technical support to ask if the IC7800's two
>receivers could be simultaneously controlled by one knob,
>for physical diversity reception. Tech support said they
>would have to get back to me. No reply in a week.
>
>Left same question in the voice mail for the Product Manager
>of the IC7800, no reply in the second week.
>
>I assume the absence of a reply is NO, so I'm ordering an
>Orion, as those specs clearly state that it does support
>physical antenna diversity reception.
Icom radios using the CI-V bus in the past could always be linked. I wonder if
that could be done through the CI-V? Probably not, as the individual receivers
don't have separate addresses and there is only one CI-V per 7800. Too bad. I
also wonder what the RJ-45 on the back panel is for. Nothing in the literature
or marketing hype documents show its use. If it is for Ethernet and the
ability to download new firmware, then a change like that might be field
upgradable. That is the way the Orion works, seems reasonable for future
radios to be firmware upgradable, especially in this class, complexity and
price. I would hate to have spent $10K USD for a radio, only to find out that
a factory firmware upgrade improved some functionality and in order to get that
new firmware, I would have to ship my radio out for several weeks at my expense.
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