I have had the best luck, and most experience with, Kenwood dual-banders on satellites. I've been using the TM-D700 and TM-D710 series on all the available FM satellites for the past six years with great success. With TM-D700's being available at bargain prices sometimes, it is hard to spend triple for a new TM-D710 (although they're quite nice.)

Almost any manufacturer's rig I have tried do not support cross-band/VFO "split" memory channels for full duplex. It's no problem because you can open a separate memory on one VFO for uplink and another memory channel on the other VFO for downlink.

73 Clayton W5PFG

On 4/10/2017 15:32, Ken M wrote:

Hello all,

I'm looking for a mobile radio that, among other things, will work well for FM satellites. I'm familiar with the Kenwood and Yaesu products, but I'm interested in the ICOM IC-2730A. I've found it difficult to get definitive opinions on these points:

1. Does it support true full-duplex operation? (It supports

"simultaneous receive", but is it full-duplex?)

2. Can you program memory locations with odd-splits? (It looks to me

like it doesn't.)

3. Can it be controlled by SatPC32? (It does support ICOM's CI-V

protocol, so I think a basic level of control might be possible.)

As an aside, if I don't end up with the IC-2730A, I will likely get the Yaesu FT-8900R - a much older design - but for sure does full-duplex and odd-splits (although no control protocol).

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