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

[ynkedragon at aol.com]

Hi Mike,

I had been focused on ICOM after 30 years of using that brand, but if Yaesu offers what I need, and ICOM doesn't,  I can be flexible. Thanks for the idea and information.

73 de K3YD










-----Original Message-----
From: mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>
To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 3:03 pm
Subject: Re: [ICOM] New car. New 2/440 radio?


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:54:02PM -0400, 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.
Don't know about ICOM, but my Yaesu FT-7800R 2m/70cm rig has the mike
ack in the control head. I suspect that the FT-8800(r?) and FT8900(R?)
lso have the mike jack in the control head. 
-- 
ike Andrews, W5EGO
ikea at mikea.ath.cx
ired old sysadmin 
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