Well I stand corrected Like my Late Father used to say "anyone who has not made a mistake ,has not made a decision " Very sorry about that,I guess they just painted a big picture I apologize for that Howard VE4ISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy MacAllister" w5acm@swbell.net To: "'AMSAT BBS'" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:29 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: No current production full-duplex HT's?
Hi Howard, Jeff, Tim, Dave, et al,
Sorry, but the VX-8R is NOT full duplex. It is true - there are no current-production full-duplex HTs out there. The Alinco USA folks did say that they would have a full-duplex DJ-G7 HT at Dayton. It is currently offered in Japan. Another comment that surfaced was that the HT would be available in the US around June. If it is coming to the US sometime this year, I will certainly be interested. It is a tri-band unit with 2M, 70cm and 23cm. That sounds like fun! Power output on 23cm is lower than 2M and 70cm, but a gain antenna should fix that...
I have a pair of Alinco DJ-580T HTs. I bought my first one new in 1992, did some appropriate mods, and started using it for satellite contacts. It still looks and works great even after a number of cruises and other portable operations. I had both of them with me on a February cruise and got a chance to discover that they are both in fully-operational condition with reasonably good sensitivity on 70cm receive. Hopefully the DJ-G7 will perform as well or better. My other full-duplex HTs include the Kenwood TH-D7 and the Yaesu FT-530.
GL! Andy W5ACM
----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Kowall" hkowall@shaw.ca To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:56 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: No current production full-duplex HT's?
Hello I believe the Yaesu VX8R,VX7R are still available And the VX8R Is fairly new to Yaesu's HT Line UP I think they are full duplex HT's Just my 2 cents Howard VE4ISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Yanko" wb3jfs@cox.net To: n3tl@bellsouth.net; "Dave-K7DAA" dave@k7daa.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:03 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: No current production full-duplex HT's?
About April or May of last year I noticed that the full duplex HT's were disappearing from the ads except the Kenwood TH-D7(G). Then about June or early July that one started disappearing as well. I found that Ham Radio Outlet (HRO) still had them on hand and I ordered one right away. A couple months later that was no loger offered at HRO and that's pretty much the last I've seen of them.
73,
Jeff WB3JFS
----- Original Message ----- From: n3tl@bellsouth.net To: "Dave-K7DAA" dave@k7daa.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:19 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: No current production full-duplex HT's?
Dave,
There was a thread posted a few weeks ago about a new HT from Alinco, reportedly to debut at Dayton, that will offer full-duplex operation.
There are no current-production HTs that are full-duplex capable.
73,
Tim - N3TL -------------- Original message from Dave-K7DAA dave@k7daa.com: --------------
Folks:
Sorry for the bandwidth, but I know this question comes up here periodically. I've looked around quite a bit, but I can't seem to locate any newer information about whether or not there are any _current_ production HT's capable of transmitting on 2 meters while simultaneously listening on the 437 downlink for use with the FM sats. As far as I can tell, that answer is "no", but I wanted to make sure that's the case before I go looking for a gently-used Icom W32A or similar older unit. I'm tired of the "excitement" of having to transmit in the blind when operating portable on SO-50! That got old the first time I tried it late one night when there was no activity on an overhead pass, had to try to switch on the TOT, then guess whether I had actually done it correctly, etc...
Thanks in advance,
Dave - K7DAA
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