No trunking on the ham bands so they're doing single channel. I don't know
that on the ham site they've played with voting but someone I know works
with it at work and says it's great.
----- Original Message -----
From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: wauxum hand helds
> john:
> are they just using single channel IDAS? I would guess that is the case
> since your area is probably pretty jam packed with repeater pairs and
> running a trunking system on 2M would be difficult pretty much anywhere.
> Also, how is the receiver voting with IDAS? I ask because there is some
> talk of setting a couple repeaters up around here with voting receivers.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:17 AM
> Subject: Re: wauxum hand helds
>
>
>> The IC-F3101 handheld and the IC-F5121 mobile, both VHF radios and their
>> UHF
>> counterparts the IC-F4101 and IC-F6121. They are commercial radios, so no
>> VFO, but they'll tell you what channel they're on in voice, do IDAS, have
>> a
>> lot you can do with turning the power on while holding a button to adjust
>> the squelch and other various settings, making it really one of the best
>> commercial radios I've used for accessibility though I still prefer my
>> kenwoods. my fiance got me the IC-F3101 for my birthday since one of the
>> local clubs I belong to and am VP of has a few IDAS repeaters up so now I
>> can play there. The software took a little learning but now that I did I
>> can
>> do anything with it.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "chad morrison" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 11:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: wauxum hand helds
>>
>>
>>> what is the model?
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 11:15 PM
>>> Subject: Re: wauxum hand helds
>>>
>>>
>>>> There's a commercial Icom radio that can do that now, it will give the
>>>> channels.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "chad morrison" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:12 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: wauxum hand helds
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> no, it will just read you the memory name.
>>>>> chad
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 8:44 PM
>>>>> Subject: wauxum hand helds
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Everyone;
>>>>>> I think I got the answer once upon a time but I just have to ask and
>>>>>> hope I misunderstood. Simply put what talks? Putting it another
>>>>>> way,
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> just put 20 channels in memory and I don't have my paper telling me
>>>>>> what
>>>>>> repeater is in what channel and I had a minor brain freeze. When I
>>>>>> bring up a memory channel will the radio speak both channel number
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> frequency? If it only speaks channel numbers it isn't on my want
>>>>>> list.
>>>>>> Similarly if I am dialing through the band will the radio tell me
>>>>>> what
>>>>>> frequency I am currently on? To me those are the two most important
>>>>>> features.
>>>>>> Given the drastically lower price how does this thing compare with
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> thf6a?
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> richard
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