IC-2200H....

[WX2MIG]

It was a cold rainy day, nothing to do but take the 52 mile hike to Ham Radio Outlet in New Castle Delaware, and by a new Icom IC-2200H, a Samlex SEC-1223 power supply, and an MFJ cross needle SWR meter....

I actually think I like the Icom a little better than the Yaesu because it's easier to program, but both radios work well, and both are built like a brick outhouse.
I'll keep the Yeasu in the Jeep, and the Icom will be my shack rig.

The Icom can be upgraded with D-Star, and I just might add that option when I can afford the D-Star unit.

It's nice to finally have a full power, full feature 2m rig in the shack, now I can actually go simplex and be able to talk with mobile units several miles away. I'm also bringing up way more repeaters with this rig....it's all good......

 

[troyota]

great choice, the ic 2100 and the ic2200 are little tanks. they are one of the best 2m rigs you can get. i love them. i have slowly exchanged my 2100s for 2200s. i have 1 2100 left and 3 2200s now. you will not be dissapointed.
troy
kj4dul

 

[WX2MIG]

great choice, the ic 2100 and the ic2200 are little tanks. they are one of the best 2m rigs you can get. i love them. i have slowly exchanged my 2100s for 2200s. i have 1 2100 left and 3 2200s now. you will not be dissapointed.
troy
kj4dul

Have you tried the D-Star thingie yet......?

I have a few friends in the area that keep talking about this new digital D-Star mode, and how much fun it is, and I should get it.....but the unit (UT-118) costs 200 bucks, I didn't even pay that much for the radio.....

I wonder if I could find a UT-118 unit on eBay cheaper......?

 

[troyota]

nope not yet. like you the dstar is more than i gave for the radios. maybe some day i will find someone with dstar installed in one for a price i like. good luck, you will like the 2200h with or without dstar. as for the ebay thing, not likely. they are on there but usually near the new price for used. i did see a 2200h on there the other day with dstar istalled. starting price was 99cents or something. i will see if i can find it again should still be running.

 

[WX2MIG]

nope not yet. like you the dstar is more than i gave for the radios. maybe some day i will find someone with dstar installed in one for a price i like. good luck, you will like the 2200h with or without dstar. as for the ebay thing, not likely. they are on there but usually near the new price for used. i did see a 2200h on there the other day with dstar istalled. starting price was 99cents or something. i will see if i can find it again should still be running.

A couple of guys here in the repeater club have it on their HT's, and one or two have it on their Dually mobile units, but it's not exactly in wide spread use.....at least not yet.

The radio itself is great, not that I like my FT-2800 any less, but this Icom proved to be much easier to program, the user functions are more straight forward without as many sub-menu functions the Yaesu has. It kicks out a solid clear signal, and pulls them back in. I also like the memory bank function on the Icom, being a HAM, a boater/fisherman, and a Professional Emergency Responder, I have at least three different sets of frequencies I'll monitor at various times, and it's nice to be able to separate those frequencies into their perspective groups when needed.
My Yaesu VX-170 HT also has this feature, I'm a little dissapointed the FT-2800 does not, but that's the only real negative thing I could say about that radio.
For now, the IC-2200H is perminately mounted in the shack, the FT-2800 rides in my Jeep Liberty, and the VX-170 follows me pretty much everywhere.....

 

[KD8JEB]

Icom IC 2200

I picked up one a few moths back at a hamfest. It's a nice radio. I was reading another thread about the VX-8R being noisy when used in a Jeep. I have my 2200 in a 99 Jeep Cherokee Sport and get all kinds of noise on it but it doesn't sound like engine noise and it doesn't seem to follow any particular pattern. Anyone else encounter anything similar? I'm wondering if Jeeps around this time frame are just noisy.

 

[KingCobra_CDX882]

You have a nice radio there.

DStar is slowing picking up steam.
Once there are more people with it i am sure will be liked by many.

I have both the ID800 and IC-91AD
have used DStar on both (nice)

 

[WX2MIG]

At certain times and locations all three of my radios, and even my VHF Marine HT will get noise, and it happens in or out of my Jeep.

There's a ton of RF in my general vicinity, we are broken up into several small municipalities, and townships all with their own police, fire, and rescue dept's and all using different frequencies mostly in the 2m emergency band. Plus three major hospitals, and several large casino hotels that have various radio and pager systems in all the VHF and UHF bands.

On certain VHF Marine channels I'll hear pager calls bleed through from one of these hospitals while I'm fishing in the back bay. The radio spectrum is very crowded in Southern New Jersey, and the VHF repeaters in the emergency bands are the worst.

So trying to pin point what or where any noise is coming from, for me, is a futile exercise......