[Icom] Get with it Icom!

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:22:11 -0000

Dunno.  I have an IC-W32A.  The only three improvements I have made to mine
is A. Add a better antenna.  B. Get the AA-battery pack and populate it with
1800ma NiMH.  3. add the HM-75 mic.  The battery pack gives me ~2.5 watts
out, and at 1800 ma, long life.  The better antenna gives me better range,
and the HM-75 allows me to control it while the radio is hung from my
backpack.  If I have one flaw, it is that on particularly difficult trails,
I sometimes forget to pop the mic once an hour and it will auto-shut off.  I
guess I should disable that feature.

Your feelings don't seem to fit my situation.  I am totally satisfied with
the W-32A.

Mike.  KD9KC
El Paso, TX.

Hiking in the Franklin Mountain State Park almost any weekend I am not at a
gun match.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of John Geiger
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:21 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Icom] Get with it Icom!
>
>
> Does anyone have the same feelings as me?  I have
> owned several Icom HTs, including the T8 and T81, and
> have recently considered buying either the V8 or the
> T2.  Icom seems to have some quirks in their HTs which
> are majorly annoying.
>
> First, they have high power and low power, but nothing
> in between.  The High power is great, but kills the
> battery in less than an hour.  The low power is too
> low to be useful most of the time.  So you run on hi
> power and eat the battery.  For example, the V8 is
> either 5.5 watts or .5 watts.  I owned a Yaesu VX150
> for awhile, and it had a mid setting of 2 watts, which
> was great.  Could get into most repeaters, and still
> have some battery life.  Just picked up a used Icom
> 3SAT, and it had a mid power setting.  Wish the new
> HTs would go back to this.
>
> Second, none of the new HTs can be run directly off of
> 12 volts.  You have to buy some sort of adaptor, and
> never could get the T8a and T81 to run right off of
> the cigarette lighter.  Icom started this feature with
> the 02AT series, and I wish they would return to it.
>
> Seems like Yaesu is getting it right on these
> features, and Icom is missing.  How can we get through
> to Icom to include these things.  Oh, and wish they
> would introduce a 222 HT in their lineup.  Every other
> manufacture has one.
>
> 73s John NE0P
>
>
>
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