Simon please buy a used IC-910H, that way you can fix the Satellite Module!
I'm sure you can re-sell it for about the same you pay, maybe more.
I personally doubt that Icom will replace the 910H any time soon. That rig, given it's price tag and being only for 2m/440/1.2, must not sell very well. I would think Icom should be working on an enhanced IC-718, which is an excellent HF rig at an extremely attractive price range. If they added a few things to a similar rig, at a similar price I'm sure it would sell very well.
I'm 50 myself, and my kids better not be counting on much when I go (I plan to enjoy myself as much as possible), but I personally can't see myself spending $10,000 on some of the rigs out there. I think we need more inexpensive rigs so that the few new young hams can get into the hobby. Without young blood, we are doomed.
73 de W4AS Sebastian
On Aug 7, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Simon (HB9DRV) wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "STeve Andre'" andres@msu.edu
I'd like to think that Icom will come out with other radios, but given the current economy, will they do that, I wonder.
Look at the price of the IC-7600 - and that's selling well, as is the IC-7700.
There's plenty of money for radios - so many Hams are over 50, children have fled the next, so these Hams are spending their childrens' inheritance. I would like a good UHF-SHF radio, don't want to buy the IC-910H as I am sure it'll be replaced the day after I buy it.
For now I use the TS-2000...
Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com