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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