kongsfjord. no Finally. It has been on my wish list since it was released, but I've been holding back. A new receiver (or transceiver in this case) always has its early production run flaws, and there were some issues with the IC-7000 that kept me from buying it. In August I gave in to my basic instincts (not the Sharon Stone kind of thing) and ordered one after I got a good offer from a Norwegian retailer. It is very small. Well, since I already have an IC-703 I shouldn't be surprised, but fact is: It's even smaller than the IC-703. WHD is 167x58x180mm and the weight is 2. I am a metric man so if you want lbs and inches, you do the math. Of course, power is extra. For transmit it will need 22A at 100 watts; for receive it requires 1. 6A at full volume. Specs: AM sensitivity 0. 5 - 1. 8 MHz is 13 V with preamp on. For the MW DX-er: Awful. But a friend of mine bought one last winter, and his IC-7000 measured around 1 V so obviously the Icom specs were overly conservative as usual. So I took the chance and ordered one, hoping that my IC-7000 would not be much different. Excellent bandwidth options. All DSP. One can choose any set of three bandwidths for each mode from a palette ranging up to 10 kHz for AM. A bit like the 746Pro except the latter has fixed AM bandwidths. It tunes from 30 kHz to 199 MHz and 450 to 470 MHz, including the Broadcast FM band and VHF TV channels. Display The display is 2. Small, in fact smaller than that of the IC-703. It is razor sharp though. There is a wealth of information in the display but a logical mix of colours and excellent contrast makes it easy to gain information from. Three different colour schemes are available, of which the default appeared to be best suited for me. I had the TV mod done and the TV picture is very sharp, but a 2. 5" TV is not very pleasant to look at in the long run...