If you have to add a tone board, be sure you have someone who is really 
good at minature stuff.  These things have a flexible circuit board. 
They're one heck of an ht, but there isn't much room for a board.
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr

On Mon, 
25 Sep 2006, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> They don't get much more accessible than the IC-2AT. ... Nor do they
> come better built. You could probably drop one of those off a 100-
> foot tower and expect it to still work!
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> The only modification you might need to make would be to put a knotch
> at some known point on the three thumbwheel controls used to set the
> frequency.
>
> If it doesn't have the CTCSS board, it might be a problem depending
> on repeaters in the local area.
> On Sep 25, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Dan wrote:
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>> Hey all,
>> A local ham here in town who is now a silent key, had an Icom AC2AT
>> in his
>> radio equipment, and I'm wondering how accessible of a radio that
>> would be
>> to us?  Just trying to help Holly Alonzo who is now on this list to
>> get some
>> sort of  radio, and it's always good to have more than one ht
>>  73 de Dan VA3ETS
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