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

[Jim Vohland]

Well since you mentioned the magic word: DSTAR.......I believe you have narrowed your choice to either and Icom or an Icom. Think they are still the only game in town. 


 
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:04:14 -0400
> From: ynkedragon at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [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
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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?
> 
> 
> 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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