[ICOM] HT battery

[manualman]

ARRL has already been discussing the amateur radio issue of narrow-band
spacing for VHF and above.
See ARRL Board of Directors Meeting Minutes, July 2009, Item 20:
http://www.arrl.org/announce/board-0907/ 

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:48:01 -0700 "Gary P. Fiber" <gfiber at comcast.net>
writes:
> Yes most Land Mobile communications has to transition to very narrow 
> 
> band. 6.25 KHz channel spacing. On a conventional FM transceiver, 
> you 
> would get almost no received audio out of it with a deviation 
> setting of 
> something like 1.5 KHz. So most manufactures
> are now implementing digital modulation and decoding of that 
> modulation 
> in their Land Mobile FM transceivers. The reason for the change is 
> more 
> Land Mobile channels., better spectrum utilization etc.
> I hope the FCC does not come after the amateur frequencies. We have 
> a 
> lot that could be utilized in Land Mobile. My fear is all of the En 
> comm 
> stuff will migrate to the " Need" for emergency frequencies and the 
> 
> amateurs will be the odd men and women out so to speak at least on 
> VHF 
> and UHF.
> 
> Icom and Kenwood got together so their products work together which 
> is 
> another consideration depending on what equipment you purchase for 
> Land 
> Mobile
> 
> Gary K8IZ