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ICOM Multiband Portable
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MTS2000des
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Doubtful. Icom barely markets their P25 subscribers to us 700/800 system folks. They make a GREAT radio but sadly, they seem to be as interested in P25 as JVC Kenwood is to making new ham gear.
Icom is stuck in D-Star mode. P25 was on the discontinued top end portable IC -R30 but it only worked like the other bands, not like a true scanner like Whistler or Uniden. Reception on P25 was good, but each frequency in the system had to be programmed separately unlike the control channel in Whistler or Uniden.
12dbsinad
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Have not heard anything in the works when I've asked. Like MTS said they make excellent radios, they just need a good kick in the a**. The problem is not Icom America in regards to developing new PS products, it's convincing the home company in Japan.
I think they realize that they can’t compete in the public safety sector so they target the commercial sector with affordable radios.
mmckenna
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Icom makes good stuff, but they consistently lag W-A-Y behind everyone else on the new products. The only entered the 7/800 market in the last few years. They have some nice P25 products, but nothing that would convert well into the multiband market. Icom is usually at all the big trade shows, and I've never seen anything that would suggest they are working on such a product.
It would (obviously) be an entirely new product line, not like anything they have. That's a lot of development costs, and the market is going to be really well saturated here shortly.
Icom seems to like to hang back quite a ways.
It would (obviously) be an entirely new product line, not like anything they have. That's a lot of development costs, and the market is going to be really well saturated here shortly.
Icom seems to like to hang back quite a ways.
MTS2000des
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Which is fine but why bring out something like the F7040 series, but not make them available to system operators for vetting?
mmckenna
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Yeah, Icom does strange stuff. It's like they really don't want to deal with customers.
12dbsinad
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When the 7000 series was brought to market Icom had this dedicated "P25 team". I'm not sure what happened to the team but it went by the wayside very quickly. They released the 700/800 band then everything just went in limbo.
Ask your Icom vendor to get you some demos.
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