Review on IC-400PRO Radio?

[Ext User(Toby Ponsenby)]

Anyone used one of these devices as UHF CB yet?

Also they appear to do commercial 25Watt - any users opinions there -
like, are they as good as the Tait commercials?
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[Ext User(nva)]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:28:58 +1000, Toby Ponsenby wrote:

> Anyone used one of these devices as UHF CB yet?
>
> Also they appear to do commercial 25Watt - any users opinions there -
> like, are they as good as the Tait commercials?

I have one in my Commodore, and it's a bloody brilliant radio.

Value for money wise, they kick the pants off everything on the CB
market at the moment. It's basically an IC-F210 commercial radio with
different firmware, so it has commerical quality RF hardware. The
only thing that annoys me about this radio is that for PMR channels,
you're limited to 5 character alpha tags, so you can't easily enter a
frequency as an alpha tag, for example.

Tait commercial radios have certain features that no Icom has, such
as voting scan, but that's of no use at all on CB anyway. Considering
the price difference, unless you're going to need voting and whatnot,
there isn't much point in going for a new Tait, considering that the
Icom costs less than half as much.

[Ext User(Toby Ponsenby)]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:57:10 +1000, nva wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:28:58 +1000, Toby Ponsenby wrote:
>
>> Anyone used one of these devices as UHF CB yet?
>>
>> Also they appear to do commercial 25Watt - any users opinions there -
>> like, are they as good as the Tait commercials?
>
> I have one in my Commodore, and it's a bloody brilliant radio.
>
> Value for money wise, they kick the pants off everything on the CB
> market at the moment. It's basically an IC-F210 commercial radio with
> different firmware, so it has commerical quality RF hardware. The
> only thing that annoys me about this radio is that for PMR channels,
> you're limited to 5 character alpha tags, so you can't easily enter a
> frequency as an alpha tag, for example.
>
> Tait commercial radios have certain features that no Icom has, such
> as voting scan, but that's of no use at all on CB anyway. Considering
> the price difference, unless you're going to need voting and whatnot,
> there isn't much point in going for a new Tait, considering that the
> Icom costs less than half as much.

Thinking of Courier type use.
That is, prime commercial of 4 channels roughly 500 Mhz, and the CB
component for traffic info etc. (interesting that one I need is just
above 500....)
I take it the commercial channels can be set as priority, and a scan
for the CB arranged with the front panel controls, or is it a data
link jobbie.
And did you get a data cable and the software with your machine?

This one *looks* the goods as an all in one fitment, rather than
juggling two of the buggers that might be trying to squawk at the same
time.
Along with the Broadcast radio,
The farkin phone,
The people in the next lane screaming about being ignored etc.etc...

That repeater finder looks the best thing since canned piss.

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Toby.
quidquid latine dictum
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[Ext User(kevcat)]

>
> Thinking of Courier type use.
> That is, prime commercial of 4 channels roughly 500 Mhz, and the CB
> component for traffic info etc. (interesting that one I need is just
> above 500....)
> I take it the commercial channels can be set as priority, and a scan
> for the CB arranged with the front panel controls, or is it a data
> link jobbie.
> And did you get a data cable and the software with your machine?

the data cables can be bought for around $60 off Ebay


but you will need it if you want to operate at 25watts as they are only
sold as UHF CBs at 5watts and to add the other features like disabling
groupcall of the selcall(you WILL want this done)


also there is the GME TX3800 which has the option of a remote head unit,
100 channels @ 25watts + 40 UHF CB

The Tait radios are ok, I have one and it is nothing special and used
ones are waaayyy overpriced, CB wankers like them cause they have words
in the screen


the Simoco 8030 I have has a controller mic which is fantastic for
mobile operation of the radio(same as my Icom IC-207H)




Kev

[Ext User(Toby Ponsenby)]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:34:47 GMT, kevcat wrote:

>>
>> Thinking of Courier type use.
>> That is, prime commercial of 4 channels roughly 500 Mhz, and the CB
>> component for traffic info etc. (interesting that one I need is just
>> above 500....)
>> I take it the commercial channels can be set as priority, and a scan
>> for the CB arranged with the front panel controls, or is it a data
>> link jobbie.
>> And did you get a data cable and the software with your machine?
>
> the data cables can be bought for around $60 off Ebay
>
>
> but you will need it if you want to operate at 25watts as they are only
> sold as UHF CBs at 5watts and to add the other features like disabling
> groupcall of the selcall(you WILL want this done)
>
>
> also there is the GME TX3800 which has the option of a remote head unit,
> 100 channels @ 25watts + 40 UHF CB
>
> The Tait radios are ok, I have one and it is nothing special and used
> ones are waaayyy overpriced, CB wankers like them cause they have words
> in the screen
>
>
> the Simoco 8030 I have has a controller mic which is fantastic for
> mobile operation of the radio(same as my Icom IC-207H)
>
>
>
>
> Kev

Thanks for that - I didn't know GME had that 3800 machine.
I already have two of the TX 3400's and I reckon they're the ducks
gutz.

Be interesting to see the price of the 3800's....

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Toby.
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