N1IPU, I'm participating in a worldwide net on my 2AT right now. It's over 25 years old and has survived countless drops, bouncing vehicles, hunting, fishing and offshore sailboat racing. It feels so good in the hand. I use it whenever I can find an open repeater that doesn't require access tones. Thumb wheel tuning rocks! Jerry, KG8ZQ 73
Motorola is like apple in so many ways. I just won't consider them as they have a license to steal. I went standard till those clowns bought them now I wont buy them either. I went Icom for marine and airband after that.
If I need a portable, I'll go with this: My family members have worked for them since the 1950's, I used their portables and mobiles for decades [they kept me alive more times than I care to count], and frankly - Kenwood, Icom, Yaesu, etc. still haven't made a better handheld radio. The current iteration, M-Solutions, is not a paragon of business ethics, but few American companies are such now.
Well I go with what works and try to stay away from unethical business. I can see if you feed at the trough ethics isn't a consideration though.
Dual receive gives no any advantage for SATs but crossband duplex. Due to tendency of modern expensive HTs to lack duplex I wouldn't expect the discontinued TH-D72 (the only SAT suitable HT nowadays) shall get a successor.
What type of computer are you authoring your thinly cloaked insinuations from? Apple? Lenovo? Dell? MS-Surface? Chromebook? They are all ethically challenged and by inference and use of your own logic, we may deduce the same of you. I doubt your choice of motor vehicles is ethical either. Don't respond. I'll never see your ridiculous screed.
I hate Icom especially since I bought ID-51. This pretty non-cheap piece of plastic wanted me to immediately buy new battery (kit battery lasts few hours on RX so useless) for $100 and desktop charger (kit charger requires eternity to charge so useless) for $50. Then it wanted me to buy simple two-pin headset adapter (damn piece of wire with connectors) for another $30 just to enable built-in VOX; Chinese HT with VOX costs 2/3 of Icom's simple cable. So approx $200 more than listed price just to use it. And after that I still cannot use in real world coz its speaker damn too quiet. So I'd say Icom=Apple. My previous Icom was IC-208H with no thermal grease on UHF module out of factory (burned after mew minutes on TX, sure). I have to note there was no warranty in my country so I had to repair it by my own. Thankfully I found used commercial mobile cheaper than new module itself so repaired mine and hurried up to get rid of it.
Comp? Self built / Pi's and Latte panda. Prefer AMD when I can get it for processors. Mix of linux and windows because no real alternative. Vehicles Fords, Old Jeep. Boat, Wood, No plastic. Prefer Yanmar for engines. So yeah, try to stay ethical, especially never block anyone, well because its pretty unethical in it's own right. free speech thing, sticks and stones etc.
Mine kept going for a long while but receive is reduced. I would tackle putting in new caps at some point.
I don't believe this is possible after all that investments they've made into DR-1(X) and then DR-2X SystemFusion™ relays. Having saying investments I don't mean money but rather promotional efforts. I wish someone to pick FreeDV or something similar open and to make it amateur DV standard de facto leaving all that proprietary systems in their own sandboxes.
