I've had a FT-710 for just around two years so far. It has an excellent receiver and selectivity in crowded band. Since I do a lot of contesting, those are the features that are important to me. CW operation is quite good as well. Now, I just bought a new Icom IC-7610 a few months ago and it blows it out of the water but the FT-710 costs 3x less! For the record, I cannot stand the cheap AESS speaker and took mine off and never use it. 73 DE WA5RR

I have had no issues with the touch screen at all. There is a calibrate function that will adjust the screen to your touch. I acquired one on May of 2023 when the operator brought it to me for me to check for damage. According to him, the radio quit running correctly. I took a look at it about 4 days after it was brought to me. I found nothing wrong with the radio at all. The issue had to be with the owner's power supply. After the test, I called him and received no returned call. I tried landline, cellular, email, text. There was no answer. By the end of January, I took the radio out of the box and listened. It has an amazing receive. By the 1st of February, I had it connected to a nice power supply, a homemade antenna, and a, homemade manual tuner. I spend a lot of time listening to the radio. But, I can not transmit, save into a dummy load. I am not amateur radio operator. I am merely a hobbyist and technician. I repair, modify, convert, setup, programme, install, but can not transmit without a license. The owner abandoned the radio. After over a year, I claimed it as my own.

Hi Brenton, I wish Icom would do what Yaesu have done and update the firmware for the 7300 so we could select a few different standard analoge style meters too rather than just the couple of bar graph ones. Considering the good sized colour screen on the 7300 they really don’t allow many ways to customise it which is a shame. I think they could do so much more. Also the price they charge for some ham radio speakers these days seems outrageous! The Yaesu looks really nice but I’m still an Icom guy I think 😀Craig VK3CRG

I know a lot about these radios. I own one. I bought it just over a year ago from Strictly Ham. They are superb. The menu is so easy to use. They are SDR radios.

The audio it’s much better when you have both speakers on. In my opinion of course, with the tests I made.

Had mine in January 2024 chap very impressed so far IC7300 was piped only by the monitor out, and a deal from a UK supplier.

Thank you Brenton that is a very nice radio. Cheers Anthony

I took delivery of the FT710 about two weeks ago. Like all modern radios, it takes a little bit of time to learn how to get the best out of it, but despite that, it performed really well straight out of the box. Nothing about it that I actually dislike and very competative value wise - an awful lot of radio for the price point. As a "general purpose" radio, you won't be disappointed.

I bought a 710 a while back to try, but feel I’m too stuck in my icom ways. Hate the menu, don’t like simple things like the tuning step options, and lack of the adaptive VFO, and many other things. Receiver is great, but not notably better than the equivalent icoms in the real world, despite the Sherwood rankings. BTW, mode button on top of radio is quickest way to change mode, and band +function gets through the band stacking registers. Still prefer the icom way though! Bought it for portable use, but pretty sure I’ll sell it and use an amp with the 705 instead.

I get just as many positive audio reports and signal reports with my 710 in the field during POTA activations as I do from home with my DX10. Sad that ICOM has not stepped up to the plate in several years allowing Yeasu to take all the top spots in regards to Sherwood Engineering reviews

Meanwhile i bought aHT from Icon. Both the antenna connector and the power jack we're attached poorly. I'll pass on Icom!

NSW has amateur radio? I thought that state did not allow people to speak.