A legendary 0.1–30 MHz general coverage communications receiver. Installing the UI-7 in the IC-R71 drastically improves its utility for listening to international shortwave AM broadcasts and local AM stations.
Maya reached for the UI-7 and flipped the switch. At first, nothing but the low, comforting hiss of static. She turned the dial slowly, listening to the way the noise shifted—the same way a sailor reads the wind. Then, like a memory finding its voice, a station surfaced: a crackly male voice reading an old shipping forecast. The words were half-lost but coherent enough to say what everyone at the docks needed to know: a trough moving from the northwest, winds to gale near the cape, seas running short and confused. icom ui-7 am fm unit