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

[mikea]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:54:02PM -0400, ynkedragon at aol.com wrote:
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>
> 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.

Don't know about ICOM, but my Yaesu FT-7800R 2m/70cm rig has the mike
jack in the control head. I suspect that the FT-8800(r?) and FT8900(R?)
also have the mike jack in the control head. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin