ICOM IC 706mkIIG DSP and Z100 Tuner demo

Two quick demos back to back of the IC-706MkIIG DSP filtering and the speed at which the LDG Z100 tuner can go from band to band.

[@w.rustylane5650]

I had a LDG Z100 tuner and it would not work unless the radio was switched to AM (Kenwood TS-430S). Gave the tuner and radio away and got a Yaesu 991a which has internal tuner and works great. I also now have a MFJ 969 Versa Tuner II with a roller inductor. Cheers & 73 from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee

[@oobihdahboobeeboppah]

Thanks Rusty for the comment. I n recent years I've made the effort to co-locate tuners at the antenna rather than the shack. My primary station is a Flex 6400 without an internal tuner, but there's a pair of MFJ-998's at the base of each doublet. As you know this arrangement forces all the power coming out of the tuners (minus a couple of watts total loss up to that point) to flow up the twin lead to the off-resonant wires. So to any skeptics out there who insist that an antenna "must" be 1:1 to work, I can say "poppycock". There's two very old antennas (100+ years) that having been saying "poppycock" to less informed hams all this time: the doublet and the end-feds (half-wave and random) and I use both (doublet and random end-feds) at home and portable. If one thinks about it, if resonance of a radiator was absolutely required, how do we explain getting sound out of a speaker let alone ear buds? So we know such "radiators" work even though they're not ideal. Imagine the size of a half-wave speaker for audio! That's odd about having to switch to AM unless the interface to the radio wasn't doing that automatically. Perhaps the TS-430 lacked that ability or it stopped working. I'm not sure if the older, post vacuum tube rigs had the required features for emerging "modern era" digital age radios. FB being in Tenn' I was there two years ago for Thanksgiving and really thought it was a nice location.

[@1OFGODSOWN]

Great little transceiver & adding some filters is a big plus.I also run mine thru a ClearSpeech DSP speaker & it makes it & every receiver or transceiver so much more quiet & a joy to listen to without that white noise & static.Much less stressful on the ears.Also the MFJ 929 auto tuner is much quicker & far more broad banded than the LDG.It does not work on 6 meters but I don't need for it to since I have a duplexer for a mono band resonant antenna.It tunes what my LDG AT-1000 can't even touch & very quickly.

[@Jammi2020]

Danke 📡🎤🎧😊..73

[@alainbibi0047]

Hey nice touch of noise filtering. 73/51 Fr

[@Lindomar850]

Muito bom, amigo, eu gostaria de saber como entrar em modo de serviço, pois o manual fala em " enter meter set mode: turn power off, terminate the [remote] jack with a 3.5mm mini -plug. while pushing [p.amp/att] and [tune/call], turn on. minha duvida devo fechar curto neste p2 conector? obrigado!

[@oobihdahboobeeboppah]

No recuerdo los detalles del sintonizador y la radio ya que la vendí justo después de hacer el video. Sí recuerdo que el sintonizador venía con un cable solo para la radio (puede que haya sido una compra opcional). El motivo del vídeo era demostrar a los compradores potenciales lo bien que funcionaban el sintonizador y el DSP.

[@donnapratt5534]

Is that a icom tuner on the side if so what is part number?

[@oobihdahboobeeboppah]

So sorry for the very late reply. The only tuner in the video was the LDG sitting atop the Icom IC-706MkIIG. I originally made this video in an effort to sell the radio, which it did very quickly, and found several hits of it being watched and just decided to leave it up. Thanks for watching.