Both Icom and Microair are good equipment, we operate both
However we have found that the Icom A200 fitted to both our Puchacz are
killing our batteries, the current required when listening is about 2 amps
(I hope that is the correct technical description), and that quickly drains
the glider battery.
Microair - the only problem I find are my big fingers operating those little
switches particularly in the Jantar in rough conditions. I know how to fix
that - I must grow longer arms and smaller fingers.
SDF
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Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2001 11:40
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Subject: RE: [aus-soaring] Microair VHF Radio
The base station is a new Icom A200 (? unsure model number). It could talk
to everyone else: it was only the Microair that couldn't receive the Icom
clearly. All other combinations worked.
As mentioned below, no more problem since the Microair was tweaked.
At first we thought it might be the age old problem where the people in the
Blanik are having a nice time and "can't hear" the pie cart calling them
down so that someone else can have a go ;-)
SKF>Sounds like the base station to me - how old is it?
>>My club put one in their Blanik, and strangely enough, there's one base
>>station radio whose transmissions it doesn't receive...
>> .. I'll try to get an update on it.
>
>Update: the problem was fixed by the factory. They tweaked the RF or
>something, and now it can talk to everyone. It took (us) a little while to
>solve, but the radio's great now.
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