Right "O" Ferg
Don't know what all the fuss is about. I installed my Icom A200
new out of the box that I bought at Sun-N-Fun about three years ago + - .
The unit has performed flawlessly. I did install the Europa dipole in
the tail and used a professional SWR meter to tune it. Took a bit of
trimming and re-trimming to get it right. But I got the desired
minimum. I plotted it out and put it in my records. So far I have not
found any nulls in the direction that I travel. All directions seem
fine. I know that proper instillation is always necessary when putting a
transmitter on line. A "CB" radio it isn't. I also installed a fan
behind the panel to blow air around the rear of the transmitter and
transponder. Actually blows between them from the side. I got it at
Radio Shack. Paid about $6 for it. Its a squirrel cage style fan and it
takes little room. For throes of you who ask why, temperatures behind the
panel can get hot. Transmitters and such do not like elevated temps.
around them. So I put a fan to blow on the hot ends of the units and put
a 2" x 4" vent on the top of the panel over the radio stack to let out
the hot air. The vent is a air conditioning vent from a car that had the
shape I wanted. Looks good enough.
Jim Nelson
N15JN
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> "It's by the way that my experiences are that it's apiece of "sh..."
> and that so called ICOM agents at Wolverhampton couldn't adjust it
> to suit my installation nor would they fly in the a/c to try to
> adjust it more suitably in working conditions and could only bench
> set it to
> the written instructions with a shrug of the shoulders as to the
> likely cause of the problem."
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> Now Robert,
> You say that you don't believe in reacting to hearsay,
> but then give us your experiences...........? What are we to
> consider your experiences? Aren't they hearsay for us?
> The handheld is an aviation form of a very popular amateur
> radio/marine/.emergency
> portable which is tested and run by numerous agencies around the
> world, so by what criteria does CAA on the island measure its
> failure?
> Has it been proven not to be the antenna, transmission
> cable, local interference, or power swamping, or does CAA just not
> like some of the correspondence? That is, who and what are being
> tested?
> Each radio distributor in every parish has an opinion
> about his/her agent - and those awarded an agency are not always the
> best qualified, but simply the contract attainees. The radio untis
> don't know which parish they fall into. Radio (just like flying)
> incurs the greatest difficulty from political borders, not science.
> Admittedly, the three major Nippon makers, Yaesu, ICOM and Kenwood
> (AKA Trio) all produce the majority of handheld units around the
> world - by that I mean for two million users in ham radio alone -
> and very few are awarded the "piece of S....." medal on the basis of
> unemotional testing.
> Perhaps we should hear from a majority first?
> Cheers, ferg
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