Quad Band FM mobile transceivers with multiple antenna ports?

[N6KB]

I like the idea of a 50/144/220/430 MHz quad band radio, but I'm not too keen on having to use a single antenna for all bands or a splitter of some sort to connect multiple antennas to a single antenna port on the radio. Is there a quad band radio similar to the Yaesu FT-8900 or the TYT 9800 that has separate antenna ports for each band?

 

[mmckenna]

Not quad band, and not new, but the Kenwood TM-742 was a tri-band mobile that used separate RF shelves for each band. Each one had a separate antenna port.

You could get modules for 2m, 70cm, 6m, 10m and 1.2GHz.
Long out of production, they do show up on eBay now and then. I sold a 2/70/1.2 model a few months back.

 

[N6KB]

Oops, I may have got wrong the bands the FT-8900 has. I know it has 10 Meters, so maybe it doesn't have 220 MHz. Anyway a mobile radio with 29, 50 and 220 MHz would give me bands I don't already have in my mobile setup, and I would very much like to use separate antennas for each band. I've got a Kenwood TM-732, which is 144/430 with separate antenna ports and I like it.

 

[AK9R]

You could get modules for 2m, 70cm, 6m, 10m and 1.2GHz.

There was also a 222 MHz band module for the TM-x4x series of radios (TM-641, TM-741, TM-941, TM-642, TM-742, TM-942).

Yes, there seems to be quite a following for these radios. Their big lacking in user interface was the lack of computer programmability, though there was a guy a few years ago who had worked out a way to do it. The cooling fans on these radios often fail. And, they are getting old enough that the memory batteries are failing. If the batteries leak onto the circuit board and the traces start corroding, the radio's head unit is pretty much toast.

 

[AK9R]

I may have got wrong the bands the FT-8900 has.

It has 10m, 6m, 2m, and 70cm and it only transmits in FM.