With great fanfare the UK dealer MLS has announced that soon people who pre-ordered the rig will get deliveries after the first UK unit arrived.
I fail to see what the attraction is: it is £400 more than the ICOM IC-705 and, as far as I can see, offers less than the ICOM rig apart from 4m in European versions and the larger battery. The IC-705 is now several years old .
When I saw what was on offer I was seriously underwhelmed. In my view at under £1000 they might have stood a chance. At £1599, no chance.
People who must have a shiny new radio, maybe, but the vast majority will give it a miss at this stupid price.
If ICOM next make a true mutlimode, multiband portable, they could make a killing. In my view Yaesu has seriously "lost the plot"..... and the market.
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