Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Amateur Radio Weekly has a piece by G7UFO showing how to use your QSL card as the IC-705 start-up screen.  Basically you have to save the ...

Both are excellent radios.  On the Sherwood tests the FT-710 came 4th, which is very good.  It is disappointing Yaesu has chosen to, effecti...

My IC-705 was traded in some months ago for the Yaesu FT-710. Both are excellent radios and I have enjoyed them both. The FT-710 has 4m but ...

One of these was owned by me until last year when I traded it in for a Yaesu FT710. At the last minute ICOM dropped the internal auto-ATU an...

As you may recall, I have an 8m UK permit for a year. Currently, I use my widebanded FT817ND on 8m FT8, but it would be good to use the IC-7...

For about a year now, I have owned an IC-705. As I only ever run QRP, this was a good choice for me as it is multi-band and 10W. It is mostl...

The ICOM IC-705 is a great 10W radio with many wonderful features. I love the waterfall and many of the things it has as standard. It is reg...

ICOM has announced that the firmware for the IC-705 has been upgraded to v1.26. See  https://www.icomjapan.com/support/firmware_driver/3343/

This QRP radio has been on sale now for several months and is proving very popular. It has its own battery pack (5W) or can run off an exter...

  Yesterday evening (not overnight) I went on 160m FT8 with QRP using the IC-705 and the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground. ...

Since before breakfast I have been on 10m FT8 RX with the IC-705 and the tiny indoor loop on the shack windowsill. It is now 0815z. No spots...

 This week, I have 2 main aims:  To get D-star (DV) working;  To get WiFi working. Well, that is the aim!

 My new USB leads have come and I still can't TX FT8 with the IC-705. This is most probably finger trouble. It is just possible it is a ...

It works on RX, but not (yet!) on TX. The drivers have been correctly installed on the PC and appear in the device manager. The audio CODECs...

I have the USB drivers and audio CODECs set up now on the rig, but have not got FT8 working yet.  Years ago this would have been a trivial t...

This afternoon I had every intention of loading the USB drivers for the IC-705 on my shack Window 10 PC. However, every time I tried recentl...

Later I hope to download some USB drivers allowing me to connect the IC-705 and the PC. This should allow CAT rig control and audio connecti...

Every day, I seem to discover something new. It seems that now there is an SD card inserted it records both RX and TX. Imagine my surprise w...

Thankfully, I have managed to locate (in the house) a lead that connects the PC to the IC-705, so may be able to try communicating later. Th...

Following the instructions in " The RadioToday Guide to the IC-705 ", I have successfully upgraded the firmware from V1.12 to V1.2...