Imported Ham Radios (WAS - Re: [Icom] Relays)

Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:57:41 -0500

Hi Jerry, I agree with you, radios are cheaper and better today, but there
are some minor changes they could have made to show respect  for their best
market.
Specially the amp relay and the microphone plug

I complained about the microphone plug when I bought a kenwood TM721, more
than 12 years ago, and it had a different microphone plug than my FT980.
YAESU told me "no one has ever complained" , while KENWOOD ignored the
complain.

73 De Constantine WA1WLA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Flanders" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:56 PM
Subject: Imported Ham Radios (WAS - Re: [Icom] Relays)

> This is one of those "glass is only half full" thingies. The radio
> equipment we get nowadays is IMO phenomenal, and the price is incredibly
> low for those features. I started buying my radio stuff 50 years ago when
> the Viking II kit W/O VFO at about $200 was the latest and greatest. You
> figure out what that would be in today's dollars and compare it to a
modern
> radio.
>
> Of course they design primarily for their own market (and compatibility
> with their own power AMPs). They don't have 220 MHz, so we don't get that
> either. When I think about what the little 706MK2g in my truck can do, and
> how really inexpensive it is, I almost envy guys starting out in the hobby
> today.
>
> I am not sure, but would guess that the inflation-adjusted price of the
> IC-2100H with TT microphone is probably cheaper than just a simple
> microphone cost 50 years ago.
>
> Jerry W4UK
>
> At 05:51 PM 2/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >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" <[email protected]>
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >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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