Icom M710 hf ham tx

[WX5812]

This radio will not transmit on the ham HF bands. Does anyone have instructions on how to mod it to do so?

 

[chief21]

This is just a guess, but I seem to remember that many of these marine HF rigs have two modes... a channelized mode for marine channels and a "VFO" mode for non-channelized or amateur operation. Have you checked in the M710 manual?

 

[chief21]

I was able to find some programming instructions. Apparently, each frequency needs to be programmed as a memory channel before it can be used.

Icom M710 Programming Instructions

Here are the instructions for manualy reprogramming the frequencies/channels stored in your Icom M710

www.docksideradio.com

 

[merlin]

I was able to find some programming instructions. Apparently, each frequency needs to be programmed as a memory channel before it can be used.

Icom M710 Programming Instructions

Here are the instructions for manualy reprogramming the frequencies/channels stored in your Icom M710

www.docksideradio.com

Use VFO mode and say 50 Khz step. the rotary encoder or up/down will go through frequencies.
Us the keypad for direct frequency entry and you can even save that to a user channel.
In channel mode, you need to program it for simplex or ad a related TX frequency to transmit.

M710 Downloads - Icom America

www.icomamerica.com

 

[merlin]

I forgot one thing, there are 3 flavors of this radio, the "general" wont program for TX.
All you get are what is ITU canned channels, but decent general coverage receiver.

 

[merlin]

This is just a guess, but I seem to remember that many of these marine HF rigs have two modes... a channelized mode for marine channels and a "VFO" mode for non-channelized or amateur operation. Have you checked in the M710 manual?

Yes, some do, and some dont. Some even have general coverage HF and scan features.