The User Manuals like many of the other ICOM manuals are crap and someone should have sent them to an editor before they were released! You are going to want to buy a third party manual or radio guide.What we didn’t like about the Icom IC-7300 Noise reduction was absolutely beautiful and can make crappy signals sound like you are listening to FM radio.Solid all-around performance and good audio on TX and RX.It also has an Audio spectrum so you can see the waveforms in real time both transmitting and receiving. The Spectrum Scope is really helpful in finding weak signals. The receiver is very quiet and voices are incredibly clear.We found it was on par with the Icom IC-7610, but at a fraction of a cost of the 7610.

A Preparedness Look at the Icom IC-7300įrom a preparedness standpoint, one of the biggest selling points for us was this radio’s ability to pick up weak signals that most other radios would miss. This thing hears and sees stations that most of our other radios either miss or can’t pick up. In fact, we’ve hooked the radio up to everything from a crappy little 2M magmount antenna to a a simple wire laid out along the floor for testing purposes – we were not transmitting with that setup, simply testing its ability to receive – and found that the sensitivity is so far beyond other radios that we’ve tested that we’ve made this our go to radio for pretty much all situations.Įven with a less than ideal antenna setup, we’ve picked up crystal clear transmissions from over 1,000 miles away. The ICOM 7300 is one of our top picks when it comes to preparedness radios, but we also think it’s a great option for Apartment Preppers or those who may not have a ton of room for fancy antenna setups. The ICOM IC-7300 is one of our favorite radios on our list, and is actually one of our primary radios that we use in our shack.

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