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

[Gary P. Fiber]

Blair,

I am running an IC-208H in my 2009 Toyota Tacoma. I use a piece of CAT5 
cable between the mic and RF deck along with a double female connector 
with no troubles. Yes its an extra wire or two to run. The external 
speaker jack is on the RF deck and its behind a seat so there is another 
wire which makes 3 total to pull to where you need them. However the 
IC-208H control head is very small, the mic cable is stuck to the side 
of the center console, the speaker is one of those little Radio Shack 
external units. It sits double stick taped to a piece of ABS plastic 
with is double stuck to a well behind the console cup holders and they 
speakers aim at a 45 degree angle to the center of the truck.It all 
seems to work well for me.

Gary K8IZ

On 4/20/2010 11:54 AM, ynkedragon at aol.com 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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