no 2 m mobile is made better than the Kenwood TM-271A on the market today or
as long as I've been a ham. The thing is solid and a workhorse besides for a
lot of people I know that have them, I recommend them to anyone.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: ICOM 2720!!!
the nice thing about yaesu mobiles, even though they are not particularly
accessible, is they are heavily built.
They are made for the hard knocks of mobile, or portible use, or in the
field emergency comms.
If i was given a choice between a new kenwood, and say an ft8800 in an in
the field emergency situation, , i would take the 8800 because it would not
ever break.
There have been some suggestions that yaesu finals are iffy, but that was
more or less true only in the older rigs. Quite a few hams here run yaesu
2M/70CM rigs mobile and bass and there are rarely issues with them.
I am very disappointed that the line of yaesu radios now don't have voice
chip capability because they are truely some of the best most user friendly
rigs out there.
I wonder if anyone has tried using either the ft857 or ft897 with programs
like ham radio delux for at least frequency and mode read out?
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: ICOM 2720!!!
> we have one at the eoc and we didn't even break it in yet, I think there
> have been 5 transmitions made on it, all but 1 by me, and we lost RX on 1
> side completely and lost all audio on the built in speaker. and most go up
> in smoke eventually. I'd never touch a yaesu but I keep telling them to
get
> another radio and don't bother fixing the 2720. It's being considered,
> personally since the HF radio is down, I say get another 706 or 2, we
> already have 4 of them there and everyone who has a go kit, myself
included
> has our own.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:54 AM
> Subject: Re: ICOM 2720!!!
>
>
> the IC2720's are absolutely horrible radios.
> For some reason our club got a bunch of them and put them at all 7
operating
> positions at the club contest station as well as in the portible trailer
and
> for some reason ares seems to like them too...tx audio is horrible, rx
audio
> is awful and they are built like a cheap plastic toy.
> Not a radio i would want to be using in an emergency...if it came to that,
a
> yaesu 2500M or an older kenwood would be my first choices.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
>
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