Very nicely done! Thank you so much for including external tuners in your excellent 7300 series. I enjoy and have learned so much from your 7300 videos!

excellent step by step tutelage.

This is why you don't cheap out on fuses, circuit breakers , cables or connectors and lugs

Thank you so much! I'm about to do my first POTA activation here in sunny (not!) England... This is going to help me a lot!!! Best regards, Manny 73 de 2E0HJN / Essex County / UK

Fantastic video (and series). Much appreciated!

Unless the MFJ has been set to bypass (hold down tune for 0.5 sec - one beep conformation), the tuner is still in series with the coax (even if it's off - latching relays). To operate without the MFJ tuner, you have to put it in bypass and turn it off. Then the radio will use it's own tuner and the MFJ won't be seen as part of the antenna load.

Neat. I tried the 10W level and then 30W and 50W. AT 10W the SWR was low...it increased as the power setting was set higher. The antenna, a dipole, is pretty well flat at 14.074, which is good because I've been using FT8 a lot. Looks like I have a problem because at the 50W level it rose to about 2.75.

If you short [MIC] pins 3 and pins 6 it means "Freq Up" and shorted through a 470-ohm it means "Freq Down". Just measure the pins on the mic with an ohmmeter while you push the freq up/dn buttons to verify. I wonder what other magical voltage divider values might exist in firmware. Its probably just an ADC reading the voltage and deciding what to do in firmware. Also, might be able to add LEDs from 8V->2.2kOhm -> [4:squelch] and also 8V->2.2 kOhm -> [5:PTT] to light up during PTT or when receive happens. Just stay below 10mA on the 8V line. Be careful not to ground the [5:PTT] line directly, it may trigger transmit like [3:ACC] does, but I've not tested.

Really awesome series. Best/most concise instruction I’ve found on my new icom 7300. I will also be following up on the Icom 7100 and looking for the Icom 705 which I’ve also recently purchased. Really well done🙌🏽

That trailer looks awesome!

Hey Tom, nice to see you again.

Hmmmmm... bonus points for food prepared with natural means... hmmmmm...

YEA YOU DONT HAVE TIME TO PLAY RADIO IN THE SUMMER LOOKS LIKE YOUR TO BUSY CUTTING GRASS 😂 . 👋🇺🇸

Great video Tom! 73

Looks like you’re bird feeders need to be filled 😊

What a fantastic video ! I really enjoyed every part of it - really thanks for the upload.

What a beautiful property you have:)

7100 RT Sys question... How do i program a repeater tone AND a Rx Tone... Programming a tone - i understand & works,. but if i want a Rx tone do I enter a SQ tone, but then the Tx tone gets grayed out.. What am i missing. Is the 7100 not able to have both a RX & Different Tx tone ? Or am i in the wrong Column ? What am I missing ?

Subbed….outstanding sir!

Wow what an eye opener. Thank you!

Just got my 7300 yesterday. I've been off the air for about 34 years, so I'm just getting my 14AVQ and a 80 meter dipole up. These videos have been a godsend. Equipment is certainly a lot different than they were 34 years ago :=0 De Bill VE3HHW

This video series will help me and my 7300 become very good friends, I think. Thanks, Tom. 73 de K6KRG

I can’t get the 7300 to work on Fldigi no matter what I do. I’m going back to another radio with a signaLink. It just works.

The switch only locks the up/down buttons.

Excellent explanation ! It's cleared things up in my mind as I have an swr meter in my manual tuner after my radio and a seperate power/SWR meter after my tuner. I tune my manual tuner to minimim swr but my SWR power meter AFTER my tuner reads a bit higher. Its my antenna that needs a tweak to lower the swr as its reading the true swr in the transmission line. Thank you!

Thank you!!!!! This is such good content. I appreciate your work greatly.

I have a kit that looks just like yours but they blow fine I suspect they may have been 15A on 5A plastic (your 5 10 15 all appear to be the same metal parts

Thank you for making this video. I’m considering purchasing a 7300 and I think you just sold it. :-)

My 7300 is shipping to me today. A fellow ham sent me a link to your videos. What a wonderful resource to have available to learn everything there is to know about this radio.

Should've gone with Ham Radio Snout-to-Tail

Hello and thanks for this video ! I'm trying to follow along but when I get to 3:45, my "Quick Menu" doesn't have "Temporary Skip Set". It's got "Weather Ch" under "GPS Position" and I can't find it anywhere else either. What could I be doing wrong ? Thanks.. I'm on f/w 1.32 (weirdly, I DO have the "Temporary Skip Timer" ??)

Three years on and I am setting up my 7100 (having followed your instructions years ago for the 7300 which is my main rig). Great instructions as always Tom, thanks - Terry G0BIX

705 scanning? Watch this video first - then the manual will make so much more sense! Really well done and lots of info given in a really easy to digest presentation. Thanks!

I really appreciate seeing a video that covers proper etiquette and FCC compliance while tuning. Lot's of folks just hold the tuner button and go.

Hello & thank you for this great Video. I have a question: I have managed to get an orange COMP icon at the top right corner of my main display screen. I can not figure what I did to do that. Please advise what controls that. rgds, tnx & 73, N7KR

I finally broke down and bought one of these in 2024 using your videos to set it up. Thank you so much for your videos.

I'm sure during FD it will be very busy. Any suggestions to get those contacts?

why does the receive meter stop working when AGC is turned off? Is there a way to have the receive meter work with AGC off?

I am/was interested in this radio, but after visiting the Icom web support site, it is not even shown, accessible only by search. The last firmware update was three years ago. To me, it sounds like Icom has abandoned this radio.?

Tnx lost my audio after experiment with other program. Your video fix it.

Get urself a proper touch screen pen with the soft part at the front so we don’t have to keep looking at the pocket clip which obscures what ur pointing to. It’s commonsense mate!

Just got a 7300, and a general license and these videos are great!

Good video mate, but piss off that combo pen-touch screen pointer that you are using and use a proper one that has the touch screen pointer at the front end and not at the back end like ur using! This will give you more length, help move your hand and fingers out of the way, & not have that pocket clip blocking the camera! It’s common sense buddy. Take more care, be aware, and remain focussed!!

A little late to the party but couple questions : does that black rtv come off the plastic very easily? and what ram mount are you using ? Does the transceiver cause any issue with the satellite radio ? I think this would be a good mobile for my titan.

Great info. Only thing display-wise that I didn't see covered is the scroll setting. Thanks for these vids.

Your work on this video series is appreciated.

So, fun story. We got rid of cable TV a long time ago and now use a gang of outdoor antennas, going through an active head end (programmable active filter, amplifier). We record shows with our DVR which is how we discovered that at times, certain channels (VHF) were getting obliterated. I discovered the source of this problem and many will not believe it! It turned out to be the new Waterpik we bought! The old one never did this, but I quickly realized why this one did. The old one used a brushless motor and the new one now uses a cheap, 120V AC brushed motor.... AND NO FILTERING AT ALL! I too tried the usual adding ferrite chokes, but to no real avail. Only minor. What I ended up having to do to solve this was a multi-step process. I had to add a dual layer foil wrap around the motor (with an airspace between them), 2 coils on both live and neutral, several HV Ceramic capacitors (AC) and finally, change the power cord from the 2 wire to 3 wire. That helped a lot. But still, not 100%. Finally, the resolution was to build a small isolation transformer with suppression circuitry on input and output. LOL I also added extra shielding. That worked! All this for a stupid Waterpik to keep our teeth clean. LOL

Audacity works great for merging files together. It allows the selection of multiple files and then has a function that places clips end to end, as all clips are selected within the app.

Really enjoying this series on the IC 7300.

Is the screen subject to burn-in? I suspect not if the default screensaver is 1 hour. After five years someone would have said something.