the 271A, to look at it, looks like a commercial rig. I like commercial
equipment but finding the software and cables to program them can be hard
some times. I have a couple for GMRS, they were taken out of service and I
got them on eBay and 1 radio I can't get the cable for but the other, it
works alright though the software is DOS and not very workable with a dos
box though I make it work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: ICOM 2720!!!
i guess if a person desires true durrability and ruggedness, using a
camercial radio which can now be picked up for next to nothing due to the
narrow band regs, is the best way to go.
If you are willing to give up flexibility in programming and some of the
other features that camercial rigs dont have, they are really the best, most
reliable mobile radios to use.
That is why ham repeaters are almost always made up of camercial
radios...you don't offten hear of a good repeater having a couple amateur
rigs for the receiver and transmitter.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: ICOM 2720!!!
> 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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