Dayton/Xenia Hamvention 2022 New Products

Gathering the product news passed on to me from those at Hamvention:

New/Replacement Products

• Icom HT and Mobile
• Italab Amp (Silent Two)
• [Edited 23MAY22]  Several new “small brand” radios and kits, most which work of their arrival came after the event.

“We got one also!” Products like the other guy’s

• Solid State Amps from Icom (IC-PW2)
• and Acom (2020S)

Firmware/Software Upgrades

• Icom for the IC-705
• FlexRadio for SmartSDR (was released a few weeks prior to the event)

Interesting Accessories

• Protection/Field Kits for certain Icom and Elecraft transceivers

Preproduction/release Announcements of Hardware/Software

• SDRplay rewrite/update/rename (SDRconnect)
• FlexRadio SmartSDR update previews

Segmentation/Disappearances

• Heil Ham Radio separates from Heil Sound
• Kenwood (JVCKenwood) continues to deemphasize and closeout its Amateur Radio offerings
• Haven’t heard anything about the promised GHz products

Weird Announcements

• ARRL International DX Contest Log by N3FJP being announced by the usual news sources as version 1.0 where latest release is already version 5.1.2 [Edited 23MAY22 – I got this one figured out, as the v1.0 reference is for the new “Digital Contest” version.]

Show/Internet Discounts

• Yaesu, Icom, FlexRadio, Kenwood, Alinco, Heil, Uniden, SDRplay, Ham Radio Outlet, Gigparts, DX Engineering,

73

Steve
K9ZW