I'm sure you'll like your F70D. At the shop (we're a dealer for Icom, Kenwood, and Motorola) we've got some F70Ds set up for demonstration purposes. Our demo kit consists of VHF F70Ds, M/A-Com (I guess it's Harris this week...) P7170IPs, and Motorola Astro Sabers and XTS5000s, all configured on several
channels with and without talkgroups, and call alert and selective calling. It's a very good demo that shows
full brand-to-brand interoperability in P25 CAI mode as well as analog modes.
The F70s perform as well as any others. Their RX audio quality is far superior to the M/A-Com radios
and every bit as good as the Motorolas. Their transmit audio quality is better than any of them. Better
than the M/A-Com, better than the Astro Saber, better than the XTS.
Well done, Icom!
It's amazing that these aren't the best selling VHF and UHF P25 portables on the market. By rights they
should be. But unfortunately it's not the quality of the radio that sells, it's the ability of the salesdroid to
convince the customer that "my way is the only way".
The radio industry would be perfect if all buying decisions were made by technical staff instead of
beancounters and purchasing agents who are so non-technically-oriented that they'll call a tow truck
for a burned-out headlight.
Elroy
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