funny you should mention dropping off a 100 foot tower buddy...a local ham
here, while up a 210 foot tower had his IC 2at come off his belt and fall to
the concrete pad at the bass...he said other then the fact that one corner
of the casing where the ht landed was cracked, the radio still functions
fine to this day.
In Fact, he still uses it on a regular basis as his bass radio and I have
personally seen the radio....they are indeed built very tough.
The chassy that holds the circuit board in place is really well built
compared to most HT chassies these days.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility of the Icom ac2at?


> 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!
>
> 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:
>
> > 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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