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At last! One of the major radio manufacturers has figured out the transmitter needs to be as close as possible to the antenna. This avoids all the problems of long (and expensive!) coax runs betwen the antenna and the control point. At first glance I thought this was an HF rig, but clearly it's not and I don't know if there's much of an audience for a radio that operates outside of 2m/440. And a glaring omission is the 220 band, which is probably the third most popular band. All the others have very little use. Unless you form a group of users around a repeater, you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone to talk to. But I hope radio manufacturers learn from this innovative design to create a transmitter box that is located right on the antenna mast or tower so that all you need is a simple control head in the shack. Now why the control head has a massive heat sink that gets hot to the touch beats me. Maybe someone could explain? One more thing for radio desingers: To keep the cost down, all you need is that weatherproof transmittter box at the antenna site and have a WiFi connection back to a computer running control software. This would have half of the cost and make these solutions affordable to a much wider audience. At nearly $3,000 with sales tax, this kind of radio is out of reach to most hams.
Only 76,0 … 500,0 MHz, only FM, WFM, AM - The old IC-R30 was better. Sorry, I have to say that everything Icom makes new is wors than the old deviced (also IC-E92D vs ID-51) More limited receiver. I was a huge Icom fan, but changed to Yeasu.
They don't. If you are in the UK, you will need a letter of authority from HM Coastguard. Once we have that, we can program them before we send them to you.
It would be nice if the RC-28A had a headphone Jack and mic connector for SM-30. Key Jack? I understand CW does not work over a remote connection very well.
Seems this is the future for large HF radios. Separate head unit and big heavy black box hidden away under operating desk. A real mistake to exclude 4 metres, will it be retro-fitted by demand with a firmware update?
hi bob, thank you for such a very interesting video, where abouts are you located in Cornwall? I'm actually based in Helston and just starting out on my Ham Radio adventure
everyone never having their own belongings getting hit then abandoning at hibiscus with the police arriving to activate murdering fredorajunior and elizabethcristine and coltichl tcl off
Hopefully getting one before Christmas my bigger interest is what happens between 137-400mhz so it’s perfect, no keypad mite put others off but tbh I’d have it fully programed anyway.
