[ICOM] New car. New 2/440 radio?

[ynkedragon at aol.com]

I recently acquired a small SUV which I'd like to equip with a  2M/440 MHz transceiver with remotable mount control head.  (Cars seem to be getting smaller & smaller with no front cabin space to mount even a compact transceiver.)  

Not having a local Ham Radio store, I'm checking specification on the internet.  It appears to me that all transceivers with remotable control head require that the microphone be plugged into the RF deck, not the control head.  This would mean a 10'~13' microphone cable extension in parallel with the remote face control line extending from the instrument panel to the rear cargo area where I am able to mount the RF deck.

To me, this configuration appears insane!  

Please tell me that I'm mis-reading advertisements/spec sheets and that ICOM does make a remotable radio with microphone jack in the control head.  The control heads for mobile radios had microphone jacks in the 1950's, as evidenced by old movies I've seen.  I can't imagine that we've moved this far backwards in technology in 60 years.

73,  Blair K3YD
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