Radio Analog PTRX-7300 - Really?

Well,

You may well have seen adverts for the PTRX-7300 from Radio Analog. This is some kind of new fangled adaptormabob for the Icom IC-7300 that gives you an RF output that you can hook up to an external SDR for a panadapter display.

Well, I ordered one.

Here are the bits that you get (but not the screwdriver):

You start by taking the radio top cover off:

Then we disconnect the cable that attaches to the rear external tuner connector and remove it:

Then the new gubbins clips into the space where the external tuner connector was:

Hook up the cable into the now vacated socket for the external tuner connector:

and then pull a plug out of the radio PCB and insert into the new gubbins:

Then we have a supplied cable from the new gubbins to the PCB socket we just disconnected:

And thats it! Now externally the tuner connector is re-connected and also a flying lead with an SMA connector to feed to the SDR. This is extremely neat!

So once we have all that done, I have set up SDR Console:

and it just works.

Simples!