[ICOM] New Kenwood D-Star looks Icomish

[Jay Eimer]

Yep - probably not much different than Ford/Mazda - look at the Ranger/ B-Series pickups - bodywork looks the same except for minor differences (hood and tailgate profile, fender flare) and the trim.  Even the engines are "swaps" (2.3 I-4 is from Mazda, 3.0 V6 is a Ford, regardless of the "label" on the outside).  But no one would argue that all Fords are Mazdas, or vice versa.  Just the guts and/or cases of "certain" ones.

Adam Farson <farson at shaw.ca> wrote:  Hi Ed,

No, each company will retain its corporate identity. Part of the
joint-venture agreement is that the respective companies will each bring out
products under their own name. (Of course, the recently-announced
Kenwood-JVC merger may lead to changes in the Kenwood brand.)

Kenwood and Icom own blocks of one another's shares. The JV mainly covers
new LMR technologies. Don't expect a "killer" Kenwood HF transceiver any
time soon.

http://www.icom.co.jp/world/info/pdf/info060517.pdf

Cheers for now, 73,
Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ


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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 11:50
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Subject: Re: [ICOM] New Kenwood D-Star looks Icomish

OK so I guess the new collaboration will be I-wood or Kencomm. Maybe even
Woodcomm. Geez !
Ed







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Subject: Re: [ICOM] New Kenwood D-Star looks Icomish


> Kenwood and Icom entired into agreement last year to colaborate on several

> projects. Oversees sources indicate the new TMW706 D-Star transceiver from

> Kenwood is actually a repackage Icom ID-800 with a few minor changes also.

> Kenwood and Icom have also recently introduced another as yet unnamed 
> digital audio protocol in their commercial LMR lines and Icom is already 
> offering commercial radios using this new protocol.
> Gary
> ---- Ed Yeary wrote:
>> Take a look at this. http://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/tmw706s.htm Is that 
>> not
>> an Icom enclosure? I know it's marketed for the out of U.S. market but 
>> what
>> the heck? Is there any way to contact the webmaster at Rig Pix? As one of

>> my
>> former charges used to say at the group home where I was employed "I'm
>> fused" !
>> Ed W4TEY
>>
>>




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