I have an Icom IC-92AD, handy talkie and talk D-Star everyday. It is pretty cool.
What would be the difference from the new hand held that the 92AD doesn't have? That is if they told you. Thanks James KD0AJZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Dick" <cowboy_g...@yahoo.com> To: "dstar digital" <dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:06:56 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880 Hi John: I had a Japanese translator do a little translation for me. Doesn't appear to anything to earth shattering in the models. What was passed along to me was that until you see and English version pop up on either the Japanese site or ICOM America/Canada there's a possibility that it will not be an export model to North America. Gord - ve7fky For a picture perfect time check out: http://www.mountainsunsets.com ________________________________ From: John Hays < j...@hays.org > To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:33:26 PM Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: ICOM announced new hand-held and mobile D-STAR transceivers, ID-80 and ID-880 I would suspect, based on the 92AD, that it's GPS-in-the-Mike especially since the mike is also supposed to display GPS info (Buddy's friend's translation: "The hand-held ID80 comes with an optional GPS mike that displays the user's current position and sends that information to the other person") .... I wouldn't hold my breath on backwards compatibility for the 91AD, but its all speculation at this point. On Jan 28, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Ken Livingston wrote: > I am somewhat interested in the GPS mic. I wonder if it's backwards > compatible with the ID-91AD, for instance. If it is, I hope they > sell the > mic separately so I can pick one up without having to buy a whole > new radio. > > Of course, the "GPS mic" may just be a fancy way of saying "Look! > There's a > NMEA serial input directly on the handi-mic!" > > Ken > KK4KEN > > John Hays Amateur Radio: K7VE j...@hays.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
