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

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Hi Jerry,

Guess I should have mentioned that I'm wanting to operate D-Star; I don't think the '7000 works that mode.

TU es 73, K3YD






-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders at comcast.net>
To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 3:02 pm
Subject: Re: [ICOM] New car. New 2/440 radio?


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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