IC-7610 Waterfall and WSJT Config

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Details on the waterfall config changes I have made to the radio and details on setup for WSJT
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[@RCB757]

Thank You!! I am new again to Amateur Radio, and completely new to the digital modes. I have the IC-7610 and I believe this video is going to be a BIG help. There is SO much to learn after my 42 year absence from the hobby! W8RFC Gibraltar, Michigan USA

[@TheHellfiremissile]

Thankyou VERY MUCH for this video. I've nearly gone bald from tearing my hair out trying to get WSJT-X and my 7610 talking. 73

[@MarkG0MGX]

Glad it helped

[@ndchevy4fun]

very good, thanks for the video for setup and extras!

[@joenaylor34]

This is brilliant! Thanks for the great video. Only one thing I would add, at the end set the USB Audio TO radio so that the signals shown on the waterfall match the display you show.

[@joenaylor34]

de N7XX

[@ftlaud911]

Just wanted to say thank you for your videos. Been debating on the 7610 and 890s. Both beautiful rigs! If you had to choose one which would it be?

[@MarkG0MGX]

Impossible question I'm afraid. The underlying architecture of the 890 is different to the 7610 which is why It's effectively no 3 in the Sherwood list (www.sherweng.com/table.html); only the £14K IC-7851 and 3 versions of the K3 plus a no longer available Flex 6700 plus the RX only Icom 9700 are above it in receiver performance. On the IC-7610, because of the architecture, the roofing filters are effectively at least as wide as the band itself so you see a lot of RF overload conditions on the receiver which you need to back of the RF gain control to counter. Not an issue by any means, but certainly an operating consideration. I used both in recent RTTY contests and they are both fantastic radios - the 7610 has a second receiver of course. I like very much the flexibility in the 7610 over the waterfall configuration (kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKemknVnga99b5I) and also the ability to set up bandlets on the UK 5MHz allocation is superb (g0mgx.blogspot.com/2018/08/60m-or-5mhz-and-all-that-jazz.html) and here I compared (very poor video) the two waterfalls side by side (g0mgx.blogspot.com/2018/11/ts-890-and-ic-7610-panadapter-and.html) Some more comparisons between the two here g0mgx.blogspot.com/2018/11/wae-rtty-time.html. I have also owned a TS-990 and found it superb; now Kenwood have added CW decode and some other features from the 890 to the firmware it looks like a very competitive radio. The RX performance isn’t up there with the 890, but would you or I notice any difference in our circumstances? Certainly with my compromise antennas I doubt it very much. Its twin RX makes it a real competitor. The 990 is also 200W out with a second RX; the 890 100W out with one RX. The IC-7610 is a dual RX full SDR radio with an I/Q output - neither of the Kenwood's have this. There is no easy answer. Whichever one you get, they are all fantastic radios.

[@JamesWilliam70]

@@MarkG0MGX Another thank you for the videos, I think the Kenwood is looking more favourable for me as it has the additional encode/decode CW with a USB keyboard, where as the IC-7610 only does psk & fsk encode/decode, I researched by looking at each of the radios user manuals. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@johnratcliffe6438]

Do you still own the 890? Just trying to understand why you have the 7610?

[@MarkG0MGX]

I have both

[@johnratcliffe6438]

@@MarkG0MGX Lucky you! Don't they duplicate each other? Does the 7610 do something differently? Or do you use it for another purpose? Thanks for the uploads.

[@davidray4128]

Is there a way to set ssb phone transmit width to 3khz instead of the default 2.8khz?

[@MarkG0MGX]

Yes, the WSJT software will always select FIL2 (a quirk with the CAT command set) so set that to be as wide as a house, then use either FIL1 or FIL3 for your day-to-day SSB work and the FIL2 will always be selected when you use WSJT.