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

[Gary P. Fiber]

Then the ID-880. Same size as the IC-208H and it will do D-Star. Still 
have to deal with Mic and control head wire at least and likely an 
external speaker.

Gary K8IZ


On 4/20/2010 1:04 PM, ynkedragon at aol.com wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
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> Guess I should have mentioned that I'm wanting to operate D-Star; I don't think the '7000 works that mode.
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> TU es 73, K3YD
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> -----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?
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> 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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