New Icom Mobiles / Ports
Hows the repeater working out for you? I'm still experminting with mind, I might have some height issues. I really do not think its the repeater. But, my coverage is horrible at 50 watts. Got a new antena today, did some experminting with it. Seems to have better audio feed, but not far out coverage. It could be a height thing, the antena on the roof is covering better area sightily, but has poor audio. The hgt differences between the two, test antena at 21 feet approx. and the other is at 36 feet at the tip. So, I'm asuming that is what the prolbem is. Hopefully thats it along with the cox differences and extra connectors.
But, I think you'll be very impressed with the mobiles, just make sure you get the latest firmware 2.2 otherwise you need to flash them for and / or thing. Thats on my to do list, so that I can up to par. I still tring to firgure out the ltr features that they advertised. Then I'll need to upgrade later to digital borads insert.
And yes the 3161 or 4161 series seems to be alot more robust radio over the 33's and 43's. I have the 3161T version, didn't really see the need for the digital borad as of it. With the own ran code thing and everything else makes even more complicated. Plus, then you need another digital radio to talk to for a talkgroup.