Onetechyguy
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Hi, If anyone's interested I just seen that giga parts is selling the ic-r20 for $509! That's the best price I've seen yet.
Rick
Kc9pxl
Rick
Kc9pxl
Seeing Icom don't have any Communications Receivers with ANY kind of Trunked Radio built in, I think you will be waiting a very long time.When are they ever going to build a handheld radio reciever with all the capabilities of the R20 or the MKIII with P-25 technology built in! Thats the radio Im waiting for!
Hi, If anyone's interested I just seen that giga parts is selling the ic-r20 for $509! That's the best price I've seen yet.
Rick
Kc9pxl
I was looking to get one of these for my birthday. Are they worth the money? I already have a Uniden BCD396xt scanner so would I be getting something good to complement the scanner or should I look elsewhere?
If you can, get an unblocked one. The US version clips 2mhz off the top of the public safety band.
I have an R-20 and a BCD396XT. The R-20 gets used a lot when I want to listen to airport traffic. Dualwatch makes it easy to follow multiple aspects of takeoff/landing at the same time. I also use it for figuring the LCN order of EDACS systems.
The direct entry VFO stuff is very very handy. I hate the way the BCD handles one-off frequency requests.
I'm going to look into doing a discriminator tap mod for mine so I can use the R20 to feed a DSD application and for unitrunker.
Thats a really brave move. I just added a tap to an old (1985) Uniden 800xlt simply because I paid $20 for it and didnt care too much if I killed it. I dont think I would operate on a $520-$600 radio (unless I got a $75 deal also). The unitrunker thing is cool. The DSD not so good with this scanner.
I am going to take a ride to the local Ham Radio Outlet tonight and play with one before I buy.
So you liked the yupiteru 7100 better than the icom? I think the icom is much more capable radio than the yupiteru.