Another great video. Besides explaining how the radio operates you explain the functionality of what it does and give examples of how and why to use it. This is a great help to some of us who are learning HF operations. Thank you.
Thanks so much for your hard work. I’ve found your videos to be very informative and your way of explaining things always making it easy to understand and at the same time entertaining. You have a gift. Looking forward to your next videos.
Great videos. I'm learning a lot even though I thought I went through the manual page by page. I don't seem to have the option to change transmit BW on my 7300. When I go to MENU --- SET --- Tone Control there is no option for BW, just RX and TX tone. I am in SSB when going to menu. Any ideas?
First let me say how helpful these videos have been. At about 9:51 of Video #16 an orange code flashes to the right of the FIL 1 icon that says "OCF". What is that?
I see "OVF", not "OCF" - "Excessively strong signal is received." - if you search the full manual for "OCF" in acrobat reader you find it's mentioned on page 14-6 and other places. As I understand it, this usually means you need to turn off the pre-amp or turn on the attenuator. Second the motion on "great videos".
Hi. Sorry. I thought I had replied to this. It must have slipped my mind when I first saw your comment. Theoldgronker is correct. The indication is “OVF”. It stands for OVerFlow. It means that the input A-D converter is getting a signal larger than it has a number for. I’ve seen this when another ham station was very near me working pretty high power on the same band or a band close by. I’ve also seen it when our club participates in a contest with multiple rigs in the same area. Turning off the pre-amp and, possibly turning on the attenuator will help. If it just flickers very briefly and occasionally you don’t really need to worry about it.
Hi Tom, I'm trying set my split operation to do the armed forces cross band test and can't get the rig to let me set to 13.450. for receiving (not tx). Rig keeps changing back to 14 100. on 20m band. Tried to set band edge(s) also with same results. Can't find any info in book or vids helping with this issue. Please help! I do like the vids on this rig. They do help to explain a lot. thank you in advance.73.
Hi. I just put 14.210 into VFO A and then put 13.450 into VFO B. While receiving on VFO B, I pressed the split button to turn on SPLIT mode. When I key the mic, the radio transmits on 14.210 and when I release the mic I’m receiving on 13.450. So, I’m not sure what your problem might be. 14.100 is the default frequency the rig goes to on a factory reset. Is it possible that you are getting RF into your shack somehow that might be resetting the radio every time you key it?
OVF stands for OVerFlow. It means that the A to D converter at the front end overflowed. In other words it received a signal value larger than the biggest number it can store. This can happen if you are close to another transmitter.
About SSB-D mode. When using FT8 you want a wide as possible BW. Actually I think the wide BW is to narrow in the ic-7300. There are stations using lf-frequences over 3 khz which is not possible in ic-7300.
@@ronlaspisa450 The narrow/mid/wide settings are for transmit only, right? The receive bandwidth is independent and as Ron says can be set to 3.6k. I do that for FT8. However now I’m wondering if you can transmit at all in that extra bandwidth. I’ll have to play with this more.
It indicates that you have the Transmit Frequency Marker enabled. On page of the spectrum soft keys, there is a choice called MARKER that turns that on and off. With that enabled, you will normally see a green/orange striped marker in FIX mode when you are operating a single frequency. If you turn on Split mode, you will see an orange marker where your transmit frequency is and the green marker for your receive frequency.
My only suggestion is to get your hand away from the transceiver display when you're not changing controls. It's very distracting especially when you talk with your hand .
These are great, but move the camera slightly and approach from the side. Also use a Pencil so that we are not always looking at the back of your hand. Just a suggestion.
Hi Woody. I became more aware of that in later videos and also started using a stylus. I guess I'll have to make time to go back and re-do some of the earlier ones at some point. Thanks for Watching.
"Ham cured smoked". it's not easy to translate into Russian. Maybe it means like "Радиолюбитель, который все познает опытным путем, в том числе читая инструкции ("куря мануал", "smoking manual and instructions and etc"). Isn't it?
I apologize, but I can’t read the Cyrillic. It is a play on words that probably doesn’t work in Russian. A popular meat, especially for Easter and Christmas time is smoke cured ham or smoked cured ham. So I just flipped the words for the channel title. It was supposed to mean smoke, like smoke that might come out of your radio or electronic projects when something is wrong cured by ham radio operators. I never thought about whether the meaning would translate well into other languages. Of course, it is also based on my odd, engineer brain sense of humor. So maybe many people in English don’t get it either.
So glad I found this series. I've had the 7300 for nearly a year and these vids taught me so much about how to use it better.
Thank you. Very helpful, clear and concise.
Another great video. Besides explaining how the radio operates you explain the functionality of what it does and give examples of how and why to use it. This is a great help to some of us who are learning HF operations. Thank you.
Thanks so much for your hard work. I’ve found your videos to be very informative and your way of explaining things always making it easy to understand and at the same time entertaining. You have a gift. Looking forward to your next videos.
Another awesome video. I appreciate what you are doing. Your vids are well thought out, and clear. Keep them going. 73"s
AWESOME work as always sir!
Thanks for the information on split. Most people don’t explain those buttons at the top right.
Very professional and insightful videos. Thank you so much for taking the time to produce them.
Yep - agree with Mike - another great video - clear and concise.
Another excellent vid. Well organized and presented. Thx.
Just got my 7300. Working my way thru your videos. Very helpful. Excellent job!
Great video especially as I've never done split frequency before 👍👍
Thanks Andy. Glad you’re finding the videos helpful.
Thank you Tom, another very informative video.
Excellent video
Great videos. I'm learning a lot even though I thought I went through the manual page by page. I don't seem to have the option to change transmit BW on my 7300. When I go to MENU --- SET --- Tone Control there is no option for BW, just RX and TX tone. I am in SSB when going to menu. Any ideas?
First let me say how helpful these videos have been. At about 9:51 of Video #16 an orange code flashes to the right of the FIL 1 icon that says "OCF". What is that?
I see "OVF", not "OCF" - "Excessively strong signal is received." - if you search the full manual for "OCF" in acrobat reader you find it's mentioned on page 14-6 and other places. As I understand it, this usually means you need to turn off the pre-amp or turn on the attenuator. Second the motion on "great videos".
Hi. Sorry. I thought I had replied to this. It must have slipped my mind when I first saw your comment. Theoldgronker is correct. The indication is “OVF”. It stands for OVerFlow. It means that the input A-D converter is getting a signal larger than it has a number for. I’ve seen this when another ham station was very near me working pretty high power on the same band or a band close by. I’ve also seen it when our club participates in a contest with multiple rigs in the same area. Turning off the pre-amp and, possibly turning on the attenuator will help. If it just flickers very briefly and occasionally you don’t really need to worry about it.
Hi Tom, I'm trying set my split operation to do the armed forces cross band test and can't get the rig to let me set to 13.450. for receiving (not tx). Rig keeps changing back to 14
100. on 20m band. Tried to set band edge(s) also with same results. Can't find any info in book or vids helping with this issue. Please help! I do like the vids on this rig. They do help to explain a lot. thank you in advance.73.
Hi. I just put 14.210 into VFO A and then put 13.450 into VFO B. While receiving on VFO B, I pressed the split button to turn on SPLIT mode. When I key the mic, the radio transmits on 14.210 and when I release the mic I’m receiving on 13.450. So, I’m not sure what your problem might be. 14.100 is the default frequency the rig goes to on a factory reset. Is it possible that you are getting RF into your shack somehow that might be resetting the radio every time you key it?
Thanks for the videos on the IC-7300, much appreciated Dirk / PY2UDB
Please clarify, What's means of blinking 'OVF' message in Rx mode.
OVF stands for OVerFlow. It means that the A to D converter at the front end overflowed. In other words it received a signal value larger than the biggest number it can store. This can happen if you are close to another transmitter.
About SSB-D mode. When using FT8 you want a wide as possible BW. Actually I think the wide BW is to narrow in the ic-7300. There are stations using lf-frequences over 3 khz which is not possible in ic-7300.
You can increase the BW to 3.6k - use the twin pot knobs.
@@ronlaspisa450 The narrow/mid/wide settings are for transmit only, right? The receive bandwidth is independent and as Ron says can be set to 3.6k. I do that for FT8. However now I’m wondering if you can transmit at all in that extra bandwidth. I’ll have to play with this more.
what is the orange T for on the 7300 screen the one beside the green R
It indicates that you have the Transmit Frequency Marker enabled. On page of the spectrum soft keys, there is a choice called MARKER that turns that on and off. With that enabled, you will normally see a green/orange striped marker in FIX mode when you are operating a single frequency. If you turn on Split mode, you will see an orange marker where your transmit frequency is and the green marker for your receive frequency.
My only suggestion is to get your hand away from the transceiver display when you're not changing controls. It's very distracting especially when you talk with your hand .
Yep! Sorry about that. I get much better about that (mostly) in later videos.
Can it transmit on 11 meter? Just wondering.
Nope. Amateur bands only.
Smoke cured ham
These are great, but move the camera slightly and approach from the side. Also use a Pencil so that we are not always looking at the back of your hand. Just a suggestion.
Hi Woody. I became more aware of that in later videos and also started using a stylus. I guess I'll have to make time to go back and re-do some of the earlier ones at some point. Thanks for Watching.
Good information thanks for posting. Keep them coming. 73 WA5PYY
"Ham cured smoked". it's not easy to translate into Russian. Maybe it means like "Радиолюбитель, который все познает опытным путем, в том числе читая инструкции ("куря мануал", "smoking manual and instructions and etc"). Isn't it?
I apologize, but I can’t read the Cyrillic. It is a play on words that probably doesn’t work in Russian. A popular meat, especially for Easter and Christmas time is smoke cured ham or smoked cured ham. So I just flipped the words for the channel title. It was supposed to mean smoke, like smoke that might come out of your radio or electronic projects when something is wrong cured by ham radio operators. I never thought about whether the meaning would translate well into other languages.
Of course, it is also based on my odd, engineer brain sense of humor. So maybe many people in English don’t get it either.
In other words - ham (radio operators) curing smoke.
Your knuckles in the way.😢
Sorry. I got better in later videos.