[Icom] Relays

[Constantine Thomas]

Let me say this also.
For the last 15 years the three big Japanese manufacturers have sold radios
(the first I remember is the TS930) to be used with HEATHKIT AMERITRON and
DRAKE amplifiers, using a relay they know it will not curry the current, and
they still sell them, and we still buy them.
ICOM America YAESU and KENWOOD have done nothing about it.
They also sell mobile radios designed for the Japanese market with the
microphone on the driver side for them, (they drive on the left, so the
driver sits on the right) but not for us.
We still buy them and no one has said something.
Does any one think it is right to have three different microphone plugs for
radios that might be called to be used in an emergency, where you might have
to use microphone X on rig Y?.
Whose fault is it?

WA1WLA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry W. O'Dell" <jwodell@provide.net>
To: <icom@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:05 PM
Subject: [Icom] Relays


> I would say this, but it would offend someone:
>
> Anyone who hooks an amp up to a modern rig, with the amplifier pulling
> more than 10 milliamperes is simply asking for trouble.
>
> But, as I say, it would offend someone. So I will withdraw it!
>
>
> 73 jerry w8gnd
>
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