[amsat-bb] Station Recommendations

Hello everyone, I am fairly new to the armature radio hobby and am in the market for a station. I have all but decided on an icom ic-7000 all mode/most band transceiver. But I have recently been experimenting with some of the easy sats (ao-51,iss,etc) and wanted to know if anyone here has used the ic-7000 for some light satellite work and how it works for this purpose.

Thank you,