so i was poking around on the icom site yesterday and noticed they quietly put up some info about a new HF rig, not sure if anyone else caught this yet. Cant find much discussion about it anywhere which is weird because usually this stuff blows up fast on the forums. Might have just been a regional release or a preview thing, im not 100% sure what stage its at.

Also completely unrelated but 10 meters has been absolutely wild this past week. Worked a bunch of south american stations with basically no effort on tuesday morning, like signals were just sitting there S9. Hasnt been that good in months from my location at least. If youve been sleeping on 10m lately its worth checking in the mornings before work or whatever.

Anyone else keeping an eye on new gear coming out? feels like theres been a lot of activity lately between the Icom stuff and i heard Yaesu has something in the pipeline too but that might just be rumor. Would be curious what people actually want to see in a new rig at this point, seems like the big three are kind of chasing the same features.

yeah 10m has been treating me really well too, worked into europe a couple times this week which honestly surprised me because my antenna situation isnt great right now, just a dipole up about 25 feet. Solar flux has been staying up there and the K index cooperated for once. Makes me want to actually get my yagi sorted out before the cycle really peaks.

On the Icom thing -- i think youre probably talking about some FCC filing or a trade show leak, they do that sometimes where stuff shows up on the website before theres any official announcement. Wouldnt get too excited until theres actual specs posted somewhere reliable. That said i am genuinely curious what they come up with. The 7300 is hard to beat at its price point and it feels like theyve been sitting on updating it for a while now.

oh man dont tease me with 10 meters being open, i just upgraded to general last month and havent really had a chance to work any DX yet. been mostly hanging out on 40m doing some slow ragchews to figure out the radio but maybe ill actually try tuning around 28mhz this week. what time were you getting those south american contacts roughly?