Icom RX7 WFM Problem

[nickcarr]

Have you guys seen this video? How is the WFM reception in the states?

YouTube - 1st icom ic-rx7 video showing poor reception on wfm in the fm radio band

(I'm assuming this guy is in the UK.)

[pdfdems286]

i saw the video yesterday. a far cry from what everybody seem's to be saying. maybe we could get a few more comment's. hertizan ?. i thought i had also seen some glowing fm reception report's ?. i'm in no hurry to buy !.

[hertzian]

I've seen the video and I can easily replicate that by listening to a powerhouse broadcaster, tuning off frequency, and walking into a wideband multipath / phase distortion field.

The station's studio location could be far away, yet the remote transmit site could be next door. There could be mixing products and all sorts of things we just don't know about.

It could be that the RX7 is wider than normal for wideband FM, but the most important thing to me is that it doesn't bleed into the other bands! At least not with the supplied antenna.

Hard to say if he has a bad unit or not. For me, broadcast reception is a secondary, if little-used feature. I must say the Icom has superb mono fidelity when using good headsets.