[VHFcontesting] Re: Ideal contesting rig

[John Geiger]

I agree that the Icom IC970H is considered the top of
the line VHF/UHF rig, and I believe that it is, and it
still commands a very good price.  The one shortcoming
with it is that it is a satellite rig-that means that
it has no 6 meters, no 220, and the 2.4 module is for
the wrong part of the 13cm band.  That seems to be
Icom's dirction today-make all of their VHF rigs
geared only to satellite users.  Yaesu is doing the
same thing.  The beauty of the FT736 was that it was a
satellite rig that was also geared towards terrestrial
operation-hence the 220 and 6 modules.   

I am curious as to why there is this satellite focus.
Surely there must be more hams doing terrestrial work
than satellite work

73s John NE0P


--- caitlynmaire at earthlink.net wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> The closest thing today would be the Icom IC-970J,
> the Japanese version
> of the IC-970H, which is still sold in Japan.  We
> Americans wouldn't pay
> the big bucks so it was discontinued here.  No 6m,
> but a fabulous
> 2m/70cm/23cm rig.  I got to play with one and
> decided that if I ever won
> the lottery...  Every time I see an IC-970H with the
> 23cm module it
> *still* goes for a lot of green.
> 
> 73,
> Caity
> KU4QD
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