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Larry W4CSC
 
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Default DAMMIT ICOM WHY SO CHEAP?!!

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 02:18:35 +0200, Marcus AAkesson
wrote:

Buy some real high-quality radios from Sailor instead. Their SSB is
fantastic.

www.sailor.dk

/Marcus

"Sailor RT4822 includes a transceiver unit and a handset. The
SPARC-BUS interface, an advanced balanced data and AF interface, can
be used to interconnect multiple control units and for exterior
computer based control/programming options."

OH BOY! Another incompatible, non-communicating data protocol that
won't talk to anything else on the boat! Who else uses Sparc (besides
Sun, that is)??

I do see there's a secondary NMEA interface back there, somewhere,
though.

The other problem you'll have is SERVICE.....

From the webpage:
Please, choose a country:


Austria
Faroe Islands
Iceland
Rumania


Belgium
Finland
Ireland
Russia (C.I.S.)


Bulgaria
France
Italy
Spain


Croatia
Germany
Latvia/Lithuania
Sweden


Cyprus
Gibraltar
Malta
Switzerland


Denmark
Greece
Norway
Turkey


Estonia
Greenland
Poland
Ukraine



Holland
Portugal
UK/Eire


It is refreshing to know I could get it fixed in the Ukraine or
Estonia, but what happens over the rest of the planet....places like
USA, Canada, S America, Caribbean Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti, Oz, NZ??

Be great if you never leave Europe......er, ah, except maybe for the
Army Green color......

Pass....but thanks for pointing it out....



Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?