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

[AD5PE]

It's worse than you think.  If you put the chassis back in the cargo area,
you'll likely also need a remote speaker and thus yet a third wire running
up front.  Mic connectors on the head are more likely than speakers on the
head.

Jay 

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Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 13:54
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Subject: [ICOM] New car. New 2/440 radio?



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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