IC7600 vs FT100D vs TS870

Some testing in receiving week, near noise level, CW signals on 20meters between these three radios. You can try to listen to it with yours headphones.

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• ic7600
• icom
• ts870
• kenwood
• ft100d
• yaesu
• ham
• radio
• cw

[la3dna]

Are the 3 radios connected to the same antenna, if not this comparison is not much counting.

[la7nfa]

Yes,  they are.

[N4GW]

Nice video, but hard to tell watching the video. it almost looks like the 870 is doing the best. What was your opinion?

[la7nfa]

These radios are more or less equal on receiving. Yaesu is doing surprisingly well and Kenwood is over 13 years older then Icom...

[pu2pja]

FT-100D has led to better, higher in the rx.

IC-7600 radio bad

[pu2pja]

FT-100D has led to better, higher in the rx.

[itaRomeo]

The best are TS-870.

1st - KNW TS-870

2nd-ICOM IC-7600

3rd-Yaesu FT-100D

[wj2l]

COMPARISONS ARE APPRCIATED. WONDER WHAT ATTENUATION EACH RIG IS SET AT? IS ANF ON IN ANY CASE? IS NB ON IN ANY CASe? What filter is on if any ?

HOW BIG IS THE BAND WIDTH IN EACH CASE, ETC? 2.5K 1.0 K 500 HZ?

[itaRomeo]

I preferred TS-870, this are best of other 2 radio

[Yavor54]

Plus the 7600 is the only radio in CW-R mode...changing the entire passband landscape.

If you turned off the Preamp 2, kicked in a little NR,

reduced the bandwidth to 250 and peaked the audio filter, then the 7600 would sound like the winner.

The FT-100 has congenital problems..like it's TX sounding horrible and blowing out. The 870 is like a radio-lab... a classic.

[michaelscoofield]

yes, agree > we do not know conditions of all three radios. Icom has preamp 2 and what abt other ones? Also BW, AGC etc...

P.

[michaelscoofield]

Well but noisy Icom has level 2 of the pre-amp which is not comparable with the others...

73 - Petr, OK1RP

[7wrkc]

qrrm in the 7600 with the preamp 2 is normal