Tokyo Ham Fair Aug 23-24, 2014 New Radio releases

[Rich Kennedy]

Good Morning to all,

While keeping track of some of the worlds hamfests I spent some time reading about the Tokyo Ham Fair.  Here are some of the newsworthy items.


The Tokyo Ham Fair, Aug 23-24, 2014, brought out some new radios by the top manufacturers.  The Yaesu FT-897 has a replacement, the Yaesu FT-991 HF/50/144/430 MHz transceiver.  http://qrznow.com/yaesu-ft-991/    
There does not seem to be any replacement coming for the FT-817.    

Icom has also announced the IC-7850, HF/50 transceiver, 50th anniversary radio. http://www.icomuk.co.uk/categoryRender.asp?r=rssFeed&categoryID=3508&cCID=18260 

AOR has a new arrival with the AOR AR-DV1 the new Digital Voice Receiver – analog / digital full cover range 100kHz – 1300MHz, built in eight digital receive demodulation mode .  - Analog operating modes: SSB / CW / FM (WFM – NFM – SFM) / AM  (WAM – NAM) & Synchronous detection.  http://www.radiocronache.com/2014/08/ham-fair-2014-yeasu-ft-911-aor-ar-dv1/

The US ham community does not have a bunch of English material readily available for any items that Kenwood may have released.  A few articles in Japanese exist but the Google translate page was slow on the uptake.  My computer has been waiting for 15 minutes now for a Kenwood article to translate.  It appears that there is too much Flash presentation going on for a successful translation.  

Take the time to Google the Tokyo Ham Fair 2014 and see all the new ‘Stuff” that the Ham Fair had to offer this year.

Hope to see you all at the LARC meeting, Monday evening, 1 Sep 2014

Rich – N4ESS
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