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Recently, Icom announced not a new product, but a new project that might result in a product. The company’s SHF Project <www.icomjapan.com/lp/shf> is focused on providing commercial gear for two of the SHF bands accessible to amateurs: 2.4 and 5.7 GHz. Today, most of the equipment in use on these bands is either converted from other uses or built from scratch. Icom appears to be leveraging the popular IC-705 platform for this new effort. Perhaps some of you saw the proof of concept that was shown at Dayton in May.
I reached out to our friend, Ray Novak, N9JA, at Icom, and he offered the following:
