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It may be because I’ve been an ICOM user for many years now, and have become used to how ICOM does things, but the IC-7300 seems easier to use in other ways, too. When I set the narrow filter setting to 500 Hz and turned it on, it effectively eliminated nearby signals. The FT-991A’s DSP filtering seemed just as effective as the IC-7300’s filtering. The receiver sounded a little noisier to me, but that could have been that it just sounded different. Sherwood Engineering rates the IC-7300 receiver higher than the FT-991 (not the FT-991A), but I’m not sure that I’m good enough to tell the difference. The upshot is that the IC-7300 is nicer to use. Another indication that this is the case is that the IC-7300 refreshes the band scope faster than the FT-991A. I’m guessing that the IC-7300 can offer more resolution because it has a more powerful processor than the FT-991A. This kind of resolution really lets you find open frequencies in a contest or a pileup. I’ve had the IC-7300’s band scope down to 10 kHz bandwidth. The narrowest bandwidth the FT-991A can display is 50 kHz, 25 kHz on either side of the center frequency. The FT-991A display is less capable in other ways, too. The FT-991A does not have that capability.
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You can tap a signal on the IC-7300 band scope, and the radio tunes to that frequency. The other big difference, for me, is that the IC-7300 offers touchscreen tuning. That allows the IC-7300 to display a lot more information than the FT-991A, and thereby, making it much more usable. The IC-7300’s display is larger and has a higher resolution than the FT-991A’s display. That’s where the similarity ends, though. The other similarity is that both radios have a color display with band scope. Gigaparts is selling the FT-991A for $1180, while the IC-7300 costs $980. They are both compact rigs, with the FT-991A being slightly smaller. One of the obvious similarities is the size. The Yaesu FT-991A (top) is similar to, but also very different from, the ICOM IC-7300 (bottom). They are alike in many ways, but quite different, too. Since I already own an ICOM IC-7300, it’s inevitable that I should compare the two. I recently acquired a Yaesu FT-991A and have been able to play with it over the past couple of days.