Icom IC-7600 HF New Firmware

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Icom have announced a significant firmware update for the IC-7600 HF Transceiver. The update provides a new range of functions including waterfall screen for the band scope, among many!

Improvements

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  • Waterfall screens, mouse operation, and other additional functions have been added to the spectrum scope.
  • An APF AF Level setting has been added.
  • CI-V commands for antenna control, logging software and RIT/DELTA-TX have been added.
  • TX Delay (HF/50M) settings have been added to adjust the TX delay time.
  • A Standby setting has been added to remotely turn ON the IC-7600 transceiver by a command from the REMOTE jack.
  • "MOS-FET” is now the default value of “SEND Relay Type.”

More information and to download the update - http://www.icom.co.jp/world/support/download/firm/IC-7600/2_00/index.html

Radio with No Analog Parts?

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Cambridge Consultants are working radio transmitter with only digital parts, code-named Pizzicato 

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No analogue filters and mixers - just good old regular digital logic. This is a big deal, and no one has done it before.

Despite the buzz around an increasingly digital world, so called ‘Software Defined Radios‘ today have one foot firmly in the analogue past. Mobile phones, Wi-Fi access points, police radios and Bluetooth headsets all use analogue circuitry to handle radio frequencies.

Using new mathematical tricks mean the group can compute multi-Gigabit/second, digital waveforms in real time without a supercomputer. Software can shape and control this waveform, making almost any signal imaginable at any frequency.

More information - http://blog.cambridgeconsultants.com/wireless-product-development/a-radio-with-no-analogue-parts/

70 MHz Access for German Radio Hams

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The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC) report radio amateurs in Germany will have access to the 70 MHz band during the Sporadic-E season 

Holders of the class A license are able to use a limited portion of the band. In the Official Journal of Communication no. 412/2015 of April 29, 2015 the following provisions were published: 

  • Frequency range: 70.150 MHz to 70.180 MHz
  • Transmission power: 25 watts ERP
  • Maximum bandwidth: 12 kHz
  • All classes of emission
  • Antennas: horizontal polarization
  • Period: from now until August 31, 2015

The Amateur Radio is a secondary user and has to ensure the protection of the primary radio services.

Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC) in Google English - http://tinyurl.com/GermanyDARC