The trade-off for the low price is that most controls are accessed by the touch screen menus. The digital noise reduction is also excellent. It has the typical Icom punchy transmit audio, and receive is pretty decent as well. I did not expect this little SDR radio to perform this well. I can honestly say that all of the glowing reports were true. I was very skeptical when setting it up, and tempered my expectations.īoy was I surprised. I figured that if I didn’t like it, it would be easy to get rid of because of the low initial selling price. This is my bench when I foolishly purchased a brand new Yeasu FTDX 5000 MP Limited station hoping it could complete with the mighty TS-850S legendary audio.Īfter hearing all the positive reviews and hearing many of them on air, I finally broke down and bought a new Icom IC-7300. My first DSP-100 was so hard to get (and terribly expensive), but after a few years I was able to add 3 more to the collection. That makes for an easy connection using a common RCA patch cable.Īfter years of messing around with other radios claiming to have great audio, I've always come back to the best. Unlike many newer radios, the TS-850S still provided an IF out. I use a $50 Chinese SDR dongle connected to the rear IF output. Side shot showing the band scope in action. This is before I added in the Kenwood TS-790A to the bench. It took a while for me to get it just right, and I think this may work for a while.
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