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[CQ-Contest] IC-7300 VS IC-7410

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Subject: [CQ-Contest] IC-7300 VS IC-7410
From: Joe <nss@mwt.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:30:38 -0500
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Trying to decide which Rig to Use IC-7300 VS IC-7410.

Last year Field Day was a Bust. But it looks pretty promising that this year it could be really close to a traditional Field Day YAY!

Now In past years in my local club I am the only CW op of the group. Sad I know. And I'm just too old to do 24 hours single Op anymore.

So in years past when a phone or digital station would be taking a break for whatever reason, I would sit down and use the station and make as many CW contacts as I could until the other Op's came back. It worked OK, Over the weekend Id make a few hundred CW contacts the club would not have had.

BUT this year is Different, A new guy moved in, and he's also a CW man! YES! So we said we will for Field Day this year make a dedicated CW station!

Now we are trying to decide which of those two rigs would be best at Field Day?

Most if not ALL rigs (most times we run 5A) have Band pass filters, like.
https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/lbs-pb-f200-14?rrec=true

And if we don't have one of those, we have many coaxial stub notches we can add to an offending station.

So usually when we want to try to decide what Radio we want to use, if there is a choice, and no one really has a personal preference, we usually go by the Data Bob gives us at,
http://www.sherweng.com/table.html

Using the Sorted by Third-Order Dynamic Range Narrow Spaced - or- ARRL RMDR (Reciprocal Mixing Dynamic Range) if Phase Noise Limited as the deciding factor.

We are both amazed at the difference of close in spec's between these two radios! 97 for the 7300 VS only 78 for the 7410,, is it really that much difference!?

Wow!

So am I to think correctly in a Field Day setting would the 7300 be the better radio?

Joe WB9SBD

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