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

[Jerry Flanders]

The mike for my IC-7000 plugs into the remoted control head.

Jerry W4UK

At 02:54 PM 4/20/2010, you wrote:


>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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