The Icom M802 is a modern SSB/Ham transceiver that has become very popular both for voice and email. It comes with an excellent manual, with lots of information on using ITU channels and the new DSC feature. It also has a lot of great ham features, but you can't tell that from the manual, and Icom is reluctant to discuss them. The references below are the initial set of information I have been able to find from various sources, but I certainly hope there is a lot more out there. I even emailed Icom with a request for a ham supplement to the manual-tech support said it was not planned, but they would pass the request on to management. So we appear to be on our own. If you have such ham information, please email a copy and I will post it here. JPG is preferred, although I can deal with other formats.

• Basic first step is to open up the radio for ham usage, as described in the Icom Technical Bulletin

• Next is to be able to program the users channels, as described in the "missing pages" of the Icom M802 Instruction Manual Missing Page 12 and Missing Page 13

• The M802 can also be tuned easily with the knobs, just like any ham radio, and has the additional advantage of a keypad for frequency entry, as described in the website for Dockside Radio