Great video, I just bought a 7300 and haven’t had time to unbox it and your demo of all its capabilities has reaffirmed my choice to buy this radio. It’s truly amazing the capabilities of a $1000 radio today as opposed to the top of the line radios when I first got my license in 1970.
I have had the IC-7300 for about two years and I never liked the default setting for the scope and waterfall, but I have never taken the time to really sort it out. Call it lazy or it didn't bother me that much, but I will try out your settings and see how it goes. Thanks for the kick in the butt.
Thanks for the information. Helped me set up the display the way I like it. I love the Icom 7300. I have the Yaesu FT-991A, the Yaesu FT-710 and now the Icom IC-7300. I like the programming of the Icom's better, but I will say that the noise floor on the Yaesu FT-710 is quieter, especially after I did the firmware update. They are all three great radios.
I've not used the 710 yet, but heard a lot of good stuff. I'd love to try one out though, maybe this year. As for the Icom noise floor, it might help to eq the RX ssb audio in the menu. Cut the highs a bit with the treble. I do that, and use the NR on 1 and it seems to help. I wish the knob radios had a AGC-T setting like some of the SDRs, allowing you to knock back the sound of the noise floor but any signal that pops over is still loud.
I have both SDR Play and the 7300. I hate the look of my 7300 display but love the SDR Play. Your video helps me to make 7300's display more like that of the SDR Play. Thank you! I needed this. I also have the 705 and I think this will also apply there as well.
Okay, this was a very interesting. You showed push this, touch that, to do this and to do that. But what you did not show was what you touched or turned to change the settings, You only showed the screen and how the settings affect the screen but what knob or button did you touch or turn and where are they located on the radio? This would have turned a good video into a great one. Or at least for me it would have. Then again I am an older operator and at 7.3 decades of age am not the fastest kid on the block! Thank for the info you shared now to dig a little deeper to figure out how to make these settings. 73
I own a 7300 and I use a RTL-SDR dongle with SDR++... I can say I can make the waterfall display look exactly the same as with SDR++... except for the scope's bandwith (max 1MHz with the 7300 and around 2MHz-ish with the RTL-SDR and SDR++)
Hold Expand set, on, off, filter cnt., carrier point, narrow, off, fill+ line, Only red turn all other colors to black, only Green, turn all color to black, on, fast, small, grid 6, on, fixed edges, adjust Ref. see the difference.
Auto Hide 9:35. When you turned on auto hide then hit meter it completely covered the scope. Mine doesn't; it covers the waterfall but still leaves the scope at the top showing the line. ???
1:31 why bring the reference level up and use ATT? Just lower that reference level to have a clean display and use your RF GAIN the way it's supposed to be used, riding it up and down depending on what signal you're trying to copy. I'm thinking you don't work alot with weak signals. For me personally, the whole idea is not to miss weak signals.
@@K4AX Cool! It was a great video and I enjoy seeing the way people do things. I never run the scope at 25kz so things look very different on my radio with common scope settings as I try to view the entire band I'm working. Just my own personal preference Also I have a ton of noise on 40 meters so I have to employ an MFJ1026 signal enhancer which is a life saver, but attenuates the display.
Quick Question, I have the IC-7300 and on the display right below band display I keep getting a flashing "OVF". Sometimes it is solid and a lot of times it flashes on and off. I tried tuning the frequency which the frequency did get tuned but I still get the flashing "OVF". What is wrong and how to I fix this? Have you ever experienced that on your IC-7300?
Great video, I just bought a 7300 and haven’t had time to unbox it and your demo of all its capabilities has reaffirmed my choice to buy this radio. It’s truly amazing the capabilities of a $1000 radio today as opposed to the top of the line radios when I first got my license in 1970.
you will have fun with the 7300. I have had one for about 3 years, never fails to impress me.
I have had the IC-7300 for about two years and I never liked the default setting for the scope and waterfall, but I have never taken the time to really sort it out. Call it lazy or it didn't bother me that much, but I will try out your settings and see how it goes. Thanks for the kick in the butt.
Nice. I learned more from this video than 5 others that I watched today.
Nice bro! 👍
I'm glad it helped!
EXACTLY !!! Great presentation and tutorial.
Very interesting look at the scope settings. I never really explored the options, but now I'll make some changes. Thanks for posting...73!
Was very informing! New config look…. Thanks!
A bit late to the party here but excellent vid....you helped me out a bunch...thanks!
I'm a new General with a new 7300 so this was super helpful! Thank you! 73, N5REB
Thanks for the information. Helped me set up the display the way I like it. I love the Icom 7300. I have the Yaesu FT-991A, the Yaesu FT-710 and now the Icom IC-7300. I like the programming of the Icom's better, but I will say that the noise floor on the Yaesu FT-710 is quieter, especially after I did the firmware update. They are all three great radios.
I've not used the 710 yet, but heard a lot of good stuff. I'd love to try one out though, maybe this year.
As for the Icom noise floor, it might help to eq the RX ssb audio in the menu. Cut the highs a bit with the treble. I do that, and use the NR on 1 and it seems to help.
I wish the knob radios had a AGC-T setting like some of the SDRs, allowing you to knock back the sound of the noise floor but any signal that pops over is still loud.
The video was good info. What I did not like was your finger going across the screen every time you made a change. N2OLA
I have both SDR Play and the 7300. I hate the look of my 7300 display but love the SDR Play. Your video helps me to make 7300's display more like that of the SDR Play. Thank you! I needed this. I also have the 705 and I think this will also apply there as well.
how did you connect icom 7300 with sdrplay? Do you need any switch is just connect?
@@RuVi78 No switch is needed, just a USB cable. For software, you will need Omnirig and SDRPlay (SDRUno). The setup is straight forward.
Thank you sir. You definitely help me
Jesse Great viedo sure helped me reset some of my settings.And how get waterfall the way i wanted it.
KO4MWG Don
Very helpful. Thank you!
Hello, very informative, thank you
Very useful! Thank you!
Okay, this was a very interesting. You showed push this, touch that, to do this and to do that. But what you did not show was what you touched or turned to change the settings, You only showed the screen and how the settings affect the screen but what knob or button did you touch or turn and where are they located on the radio? This would have turned a good video into a great one. Or at least for me it would have. Then again I am an older operator and at 7.3 decades of age am not the fastest kid on the block! Thank for the info you shared now to dig a little deeper to figure out how to make these settings. 73
@dancontway1934 I don't know if I got you right, but this radio have a touch screen. He touches the screen to activate the functions. 73.
So very helpful and very nicely explained. Easy to follow. Wow do I like my display better now. THX N 73 de KD0AXQ
Pretty cool presentation, I really like the green, this gave me some ideas of what to do to mine. 73 de KC8RJS
Wonder if there is any adjustment for the S-Meter.....I have never seen an end stop signal......no matter how near to me or strong.
A big advantage of the new Yaesu FT-710 is its external monitor jack. Hook it up and run it to a cheap 21 inch monitor.
I own a 7300 and I use a RTL-SDR dongle with SDR++... I can say I can make the waterfall display look exactly the same as with SDR++... except for the scope's bandwith (max 1MHz with the 7300 and around 2MHz-ish with the RTL-SDR and SDR++)
Hold Expand set, on, off, filter cnt., carrier point, narrow, off, fill+ line, Only red turn all other colors to black, only Green, turn all color to black, on, fast, small, grid 6, on, fixed edges, adjust Ref. see the difference.
icom 7300 scope when transmitting ?
Yes it works when transmitting
when transmitting a little scope pops up by the marker ?
Auto Hide 9:35. When you turned on auto hide then hit meter it completely covered the scope. Mine doesn't; it covers the waterfall but still leaves the scope at the top showing the line. ???
Not sure, I'll play with it later today and see if I can duplicate it
@@K4AX EXIT will not take the scope away. It just makes it small.
@@quaildogusa I'm not near one but try going to the meter screen then press the m.scope button
I ended up doing a general reset and starting over. That fixed it.
1:31 why bring the reference level up and use ATT? Just lower that reference level to have a clean display and use your RF GAIN the way it's supposed to be used, riding it up and down depending on what signal you're trying to copy. I'm thinking you don't work alot with weak signals. For me personally, the whole idea is not to miss weak signals.
I usually do depending on the situation, my mind was more on making a video than riding the gain 😁
@@K4AX Cool! It was a great video and I enjoy seeing the way people do things.
I never run the scope at 25kz so things look very different on my radio with common scope settings as I try to view the entire band I'm working. Just my own personal preference Also I have a ton of noise on 40 meters so I have to employ an MFJ1026 signal enhancer which is a life saver, but attenuates the display.
Quick Question, I have the IC-7300 and on the display right below band display I keep getting a flashing "OVF". Sometimes it is solid and a lot of times it flashes on and off. I tried tuning the frequency which the frequency did get tuned but I still get the flashing "OVF". What is wrong and how to I fix this? Have you ever experienced that on your IC-7300?
I answered your question on my other video I think let me know if you need any more info. 👍