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The 710 is an
SSB receiver that will work on the ham bands while the 706 is an amateur radio that will work on the marine HF bands. So which direction would you go above? |
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wrote in message news The 710 is an SSB receiver that will work on the ham bands while the 706 is an amateur radio that will work on the marine HF bands. So which direction would you go above? The trade offs are as follows" HAM Must have a General Class license. Must have a radio that will do the ham bands. email is free, but absolutely no commercial traffic. Marine SSB Must have a marine SSB rig. Musr have a Ships Station License for the rig. Must have a Restricted Radiotelephone Operators Permit for yourself. Sailmail is $250/yr but you can do commercial traffic. I went with both. An ICOM-M710 enabled for the ham bands. And I had both Winlink (ham email) and Sailmail. The M710 is one of the few rigs that can do the digital modes, such as PACTOR, at full power. Doug, k3qt s/v Callista |
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I went with both. An ICOM-M710 enabled for the ham bands. And I had
both Winlink (ham email) and Sailmail. The M710 is one of the few rigs that can do the digital modes, such as PACTOR, at full power. OK Doug thanks When I asked the question "what direction would you go" ..... I meant which rig would you go for.... i.e. a ham rig that can do marine bands.... or a marine rig that can do ham bands I already have my general class ham license..... juts not active for years So.... Im trying to decide what equip to go hence the question abt a ham rig w/marine bands vs the other |
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The M710 is a great radio for email and Marine SSB use. It is a bit of
a pain for general QSOing since it lacks a "Big Knob". But if you spend most of your hamming on various nets, then you can program them into the memories and you are all set. I originally had both an M710 and a Kenwood TS-680 on board, but the TS-680 quit transmitting and it will cost more to fix than the rig is worth. Doug, k3qt s/v CAllista wrote in message ... I went with both. An ICOM-M710 enabled for the ham bands. And I had both Winlink (ham email) and Sailmail. The M710 is one of the few rigs that can do the digital modes, such as PACTOR, at full power. OK Doug thanks When I asked the question "what direction would you go" .... I meant which rig would you go for.... i.e. a ham rig that can do marine bands.... or a marine rig that can do ham bands I already have my general class ham license..... juts not active for years So.... Im trying to decide what equip to go hence the question abt a ham rig w/marine bands vs the other |
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"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in
: The M710 is a great radio for email and Marine SSB use. It is a bit of a pain for general QSOing since it lacks a "Big Knob". But if you spend most of your hamming on various nets, then you can program them into the memories and you are all set. I originally had both an M710 and a Kenwood TS-680 on board, but the TS-680 quit transmitting and it will cost more to fix than the rig is worth. Doug, k3qt s/v CAllista This is where the M802 just shines as a ham rig. M802 HAS the "big knob", actually two of them, in frequency mode. Switching to ham bands is easy. Press MODE + XMIT + the number 2 buttons together until it beeps and that opens the transmitter to all the frequencies it covers, not just Marine bands. Do it again, and it locks out all but the marine channels to keep your non-ham operators from transmitting out-of-band on their watch. No wires or diodes to clip. M802 has tons of memories, so I have a bank programmed for the ham nets. Press the RX button to switch from channel mode to frequency mode (toggles back and forth). Once in frequency mode, the left big button selects which number the right big button changes....Mhz, 100 khz, 10 Khz, 1 Khz or 100 hz steps. Most hams now use 1 Khz steps so I leave the cursor on the 1Khz number and just rotate the right "VFO" knob to tune smoothly across the bands in 1 Khz steps. Works like a great ham radio having this feature....albeit a little overpriced...(c; M802 also has a clarifier in 10 Hz steps so you can set the audio tones on any modem dead on the money for data reception. It's only 150 watts...but we can't have everything.... http://www.icomamerica.com/products/marine/m802/ |
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"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
... "Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in : The M710 is a great radio for email and Marine SSB use. It is a bit of a pain for general QSOing since it lacks a "Big Knob". But if you spend most of your hamming on various nets, then you can program them into the memories and you are all set. I originally had both an M710 and a Kenwood TS-680 on board, but the TS-680 quit transmitting and it will cost more to fix than the rig is worth. Doug, k3qt s/v CAllista This is where the M802 just shines as a ham rig. M802 HAS the "big knob", actually two of them, in frequency mode. Switching to ham bands is easy. Press MODE + XMIT + the number 2 buttons together until it beeps and that opens the transmitter to all the frequencies it covers, not just Marine bands. Do it again, and it locks out all but the marine channels to keep your non-ham operators from transmitting out-of-band on their watch. No wires or diodes to clip. M802 has tons of memories, so I have a bank programmed for the ham nets. Press the RX button to switch from channel mode to frequency mode (toggles back and forth). Once in frequency mode, the left big button selects which number the right big button changes....Mhz, 100 khz, 10 Khz, 1 Khz or 100 hz steps. Most hams now use 1 Khz steps so I leave the cursor on the 1Khz number and just rotate the right "VFO" knob to tune smoothly across the bands in 1 Khz steps. Works like a great ham radio having this feature....albeit a little overpriced...(c; M802 also has a clarifier in 10 Hz steps so you can set the audio tones on any modem dead on the money for data reception. It's only 150 watts...but we can't have everything.... http://www.icomamerica.com/products/marine/m802/ The M710 works in a similar way with its 2 "big knobs". Problem is that the knobs have detents which make it impossible to browse easily. Doug |
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Doug,
Download Vic Poor's IC710 control program. http://www.winlink.org/miscellaneous.htm You can then run the M710 from the computer and almost like having a "big knob" krj Doug Dotson wrote: The M710 is a great radio for email and Marine SSB use. It is a bit of a pain for general QSOing since it lacks a "Big Knob". But if you spend most of your hamming on various nets, then you can program them into the memories and you are all set. I originally had both an M710 and a Kenwood TS-680 on board, but the TS-680 quit transmitting and it will cost more to fix than the rig is worth. Doug, k3qt s/v CAllista wrote in message ... I went with both. An ICOM-M710 enabled for the ham bands. And I had both Winlink (ham email) and Sailmail. The M710 is one of the few rigs that can do the digital modes, such as PACTOR, at full power. OK Doug thanks When I asked the question "what direction would you go" .... I meant which rig would you go for.... i.e. a ham rig that can do marine bands.... or a marine rig that can do ham bands I already have my general class ham license..... juts not active for years So.... Im trying to decide what equip to go hence the question abt a ham rig w/marine bands vs the other |
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I've got it. It does help, big not as nice a real big knob.
Doug "krj" wrote in message .. . Doug, Download Vic Poor's IC710 control program. http://www.winlink.org/miscellaneous.htm You can then run the M710 from the computer and almost like having a "big knob" krj Doug Dotson wrote: The M710 is a great radio for email and Marine SSB use. It is a bit of a pain for general QSOing since it lacks a "Big Knob". But if you spend most of your hamming on various nets, then you can program them into the memories and you are all set. I originally had both an M710 and a Kenwood TS-680 on board, but the TS-680 quit transmitting and it will cost more to fix than the rig is worth. Doug, k3qt s/v CAllista wrote in message ... I went with both. An ICOM-M710 enabled for the ham bands. And I had both Winlink (ham email) and Sailmail. The M710 is one of the few rigs that can do the digital modes, such as PACTOR, at full power. OK Doug thanks When I asked the question "what direction would you go" .... I meant which rig would you go for.... i.e. a ham rig that can do marine bands.... or a marine rig that can do ham bands I already have my general class ham license..... juts not active for years So.... Im trying to decide what equip to go hence the question abt a ham rig w/marine bands vs the other |
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