[Icom] Translation progress

Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:28:56 -0700

Hi John,

Yes, I got a chuckle out of that one too. But that's nothing compared to the
cryptic "knitting machine" reference which I interpreted as "fixed-station
radio" from the context.

From the time I was first re-licensed in Canada, in 1976, following an
8-year hiatus from ham radio, I used Motorola and GE rockbound land-mobile
equipment on 2m and 70cm FM, as intermod was never an issue. After some very
frustrating encounters with synthesised ham stuff in the late 70's and early
80's, I settled on the older Icom land-mobile line - V100, U400, H16, U16
etc. These radios are field-programmable, and their EIA intermod spec is
excellent - -65 dB for the handhelds and -70 dB for the mobiles. I can drive
around the Vancouver city centre at any hour with tithe V100 and a 5/8 whip,
and not hear anything that is not supposed to be there. All these radios
have multi-stage varactor-tuned preselectors.

To this day, I have not found an amateur FM rig that comes close. As
broadband as the 2720 is, I imagine that its intermod rejection will not be
orders of magnitude better than that of its predecessors.

Watch out for those 2 polarization machines...they can be pretty dangerous!

Cheers for now, 73,
Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ

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Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 18:14
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Subject: Re: [Icom] Translation progress

Adam, great work and great stuff.  I did get a warm chuckle
from this, though, on the 2720:

"As for the present mobile machine market, are the high
functional machine, the inexpensive machine and a state
where it is close to 2 polarization, while this kind of
extremely differentiation advances, in the respective genre
the load type transceiver of various concepts is sold from
each company. It is the epoch-making product where the
IC-2720 series although belonging to the genre of the
inexpensive machine, build in the broadband receiver,
furthermore V/V, load the high function which begins U / U
simultaneous reception function, destroy the framework of 2
polarization. "

I know (I think <g>) what they're saying, but getting there
is another matter.  (On a more serious note, I'm wondering
whether this impressive-looking mobile will have IMD
problems?)

73
John Newell KB1FPM

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