What bothers me about the M802 is its openness. The case is open.
The cooling fan is INSIDE pulling the boat's salt-soaked, humid air
into the case where ALL the boards, those cheap little white
connectors they use on the antenna tuner and control cable connection
are all over the boards INSIDE the case. Nothing is sealed, nada.

One wonders if this is actually a catch-all radio used in many
services with simply a different "programmer" front panel to change
the access EEPROM from, say, marine to commercial to ham to whatever.
It's, obviously, NOT a "marine radio", like its SEALED companion M602
sitting right next to it in our panel. I told IcomAmerica they should
have made them the same way, with an external, replaceable fan, if
needed. There isn't any place inside a BOAT that won't make it
corrode......as any sailor knows.



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?