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ICOM IC-F6122D Amateur Radio Use

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I have a question for all the clever ICOM people. We got hold of a load of IC-F6122D radio's that we want to use on the amateur band for NXDN. After many programming attempts it seems not possible. Anybody out there that have been able to operate NXDN on the amateur radio network.

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What amateur band are you trying to program? The F6122D is a UHF mobile covering 400-470 Mhz, it would work here in the US on the 440 ham band just fine.
 

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I've got a couple of Icom VHF portables (F3161DT with railroad firmware and F3400DT); haven't had the least bit of trouble programming either one in the ham band. I know a couple of guys with comparable UHF models, they haven't had any trouble either.

Have you checked for some sort of programming lock?
 

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Thanks for the replies. I will program them on the UHF amateur band 430 to 440 MHz, not a problem. My question is around the NXDN, is the ICOM version of NXDN on these specific radio's compliant or usable or interfaceable with the NXDN we run on the digital amateur radio networks?

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Thanks for the replies. I will program them on the UHF amateur band 430 to 440 MHz, not a problem. My question is around the NXDN, is the ICOM version of NXDN on these specific radio's compliant or usable or interfaceable with the NXDN we run on the digital amateur radio networks?

NXDN is a standard, so you should have no problems.
 
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