Recommended Handheld Transceivers for the New Amateur.
The following are average prices (in USD) for good older Icom HF radios. Note that the IC-701and IC-720 series are not recommended (see comment below). This page is a guide to products and typical market values only. It is not an offer of equipment for sale. HF Transceivers.
Time will tell how this scenario plays out but as an HF DXer and contester, let me say from the outset that I’m very happy with my IC-7610 and confident that digital architecture transceivers such as those from Icom, Apache Labs and FlexRadio Systems are bringing to a close the days of the superheterodyne transceiver, even those with a digital signal processing back-end.
Review Summary For: Xiegu G90 HF SDR Transceiver; Reviews: 18 MSRP: 499; Description: G90 is a portable 20W HF amateur radio transceiver with an SDR architecture with built-in auto antenna tuner. The display unit and the radio can be separated. It is a new member of the Xiegu product family and the first model of the G series.
Base Transceivers. DX Engineering offers a complete selection of ham radio base transceivers from Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood and Alinco. Different models cover Amateur bands from 160 meters to 23 cm, and allow you to join in the excitement of operating on all of the modes—SSB, AM CW, RTTY, PSK, and dozens of other digital modes.
HF Transceivers performance comparison The March 2000 issue of RadCom has an in depth technical review of the new ICOM IC756 PRO. I have summarized three key technical measurements on a variety of transceivers, all made by the same reviewer, Peter Hart, using the same methodology.
Figure 3 shows a comparison between a typical narrowband and a UWB transceiver. Furthermore, antenna, front-end, analog and digital baseband are compared qualitatively in Table 2. Front-end design challenges for receiving UWB signals consist mainly in realizing efficient wideband devices.
Expert Electronics SunSDR2 DX Transceiver The SunSDR2 DX transceiver based on the well-known SunSDR2 PRO transceiver with several hardware improvements. It is a 100W-HF; 50W-6M; 8W-2M transceiver, very compact, has a separate connector for active cooling and improved supply system, meaning it’s perfectly suited for DXpeditions.