[ICOM] PRO III

[el34guy at aol.com]

Which Kenwood mobile hf radio, and how much?

73

Mark
W0NCL



-----Original Message-----
From: nagel.david at sbcglobal.net
To: icom at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:03 AM
Subject: RE: [ICOM] PRO III

Mac

If the members leave the program as you say remember the problem does 
not stem
 from the program but with Congress and it's attempt to raise money by 
selling
rights to radio spectrum. This required NTIA to refarm the governmental 
radio
spectrum users into a much smaller space. To do this they had to 
require more
efficient radios that would not interfere with each other. Remember HF 
signals
travel and may be detected and cause interference or be interfered with 
at a
great distance. Not likely I know but the government doesn't deal with 
not
likelies.
I don't like it any more than anyone else. I have 5 formerly compliant 
HF radios
of which only one is still compliant, Yaesu FT-817. Want to buy a 
Kenwood mobile
HF cheap?

Dave Nagel

D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote: It will be interesting 
to see how
many MARS, CAP,
and USCGAux members just say "to heck with it"
and leave their respective programs as a result of
these changes.

Betcha the "law of unintended consequences"
rears it always ugly head!

73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
Oklahoma City, OK



----Original Message Follows----
From: David Nagel
Reply-To: ICOM Reflector
To: ICOM Reflector
Subject: RE: [ICOM] PRO III
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 06:27:23 -0800 (PST)

Adam;

If you go to < https://ntc.cap.af.mil/comm/equipment/equipment.cfm > 
you can
view all the compliant radios useable in CAP and the reason for the
noncompliance of the formerly compliant ones.
.
Basically the change that killed ham radio in CAP was the "TX unwanted
emissions".
The new specification is: 43+10log(Px) or 5 watts = 49.98dB, 50 w = 
59.98dB,
100 w = 63dB, 125 w = 63.9dB

Icom specifies 40dB at 100 watts. However if you limit the TX to 5 
watts the
radio is in compliance. The limitation is most likely of no consequence 
but
still a limitation and places the radios in the noncompliant box.

If you are in CAP you will have to wait until next year (2008) when e 
are
scheduled to receive Motorola Micom II HF stations in quantity. Until 
then
good luck.

Dave Nagel
INWG/Group North DC
RF 41


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