[Icom] Get with it Icom!

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:12:45 -0500

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Olbrisch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:22 PM
Subject: RE: [Icom] Get with it Icom!


> 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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