Handheld Tranceiver Recommendation

I am thinking of purchasing a hand held radio (tranceiver).

Can anyone recommend one ? I am a student pilot.

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In a previous article, nospamPlease said:
I am thinking of purchasing a hand held radio (tranceiver).

Can anyone recommend one ? I am a student pilot.

No, but I can categorically state that you must not, under any
circumstances, buy the Sporty's one. It's a horrible piece of crap. The
display is almost unreadable under most lighting conditions, it loses all
its memory when you change the batteries, and the range is laughable. Oh,
unless you want to buy mine used, in which case they're great.


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NospamPlease,

I am thinking of purchasing a hand held radio (tranceiver).

Can anyone recommend one ? I am a student pilot.


Vertex/Yaesu and Icom are the two brands that come to mind. I don't
like the antiquated (IMHO) design of the Sporty's unit.

What do you want to do with it? I'd humbly suggest there are quite some
things a student pilot might want to spend 250 $ on before getting a
handheld radio.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Can anyone recommend one ? I am a student pilot.

Watch Ebay for a used ICOM AC-20 or -21. They are bigger than the new ones,
but bulletproof. You can probably pick one up for peanuts, compared to a
new one.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Yaesu. Amazing unit and you can get them for very good prices on Ebay.

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Thank You,
Ryan


"nospamPlease" wrote in message
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I am thinking of purchasing a hand held radio (tranceiver).

Can anyone recommend one ? I am a student pilot.

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We just received our new ICOM - A-23..

Ist impresions are very good, nd the VOR actually works!

Well.. at 3000 feet and 44 miles anyway.. (As far as we
tried it so far), and it gave us the same radial as the panel unit
in our 172.. Actually did an intercept with it... tiny numbers of
course, but a tiny radio...

We shopped harder than most (I thin. Posted here, got several
opinions.. the ICOM seemed to come out on tip, for what we wanted..

Very good so far...

Dave


On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:09:26 GMT, nospamPlease
wrote:


I am thinking of purchasing a hand held radio (tranceiver).

Can anyone recommend one ? I am a student pilot.

Please reply to this newsgroup and not via email.

I would buy a Vertex 5 watt radio with any nav feature. If the radio
is only for backup, then you might want to consider alkalines, but I
like the rechargable because it's my only radio. The version I own is
a Yaseu, predecessor of the Vertex.

Others will tell you Icom. Before the Yaseu, I owned a Sporty's, but I
didn't like it. I found the nav feature useless, the whole thing
rather bulky and heavy, the display not easy to read--and it ate
batteries.

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: -- put Cubdriver in subject line!

see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com
and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com

I have an older Icom and I tried the new Vertex model that a couple of
friends got. Both do the job. The Vertex seems like a very sexy little
radio, but side by side the Icom was noticeably more sensitive (could have
been just normal unit to unit differences and not model specific). If I had
to get one today I would probably lean towards a Vertex with 2m capability.


"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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I would buy a Vertex 5 watt radio with any nav feature. If the radio
is only for backup, then you might want to consider alkalines, but I
like the rechargable because it's my only radio. The version I own is
a Yaseu, predecessor of the Vertex.

Others will tell you Icom. Before the Yaseu, I owned a Sporty's, but I
didn't like it. I found the nav feature useless, the whole thing
rather bulky and heavy, the display not easy to read--and it ate
batteries.

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: -- put Cubdriver in subject line!

see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com
and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com

I bought an Icom A-22 many years ago. It's a sturdy radio, but I have lost
one of the rubber knobs (inner). Also, the NiCd cells lost their ability to
hold charge after 5 years. Recently I rebuilt the battery pack myself. As
good as new. The VOR accuracy appears to be good, but have not used it in
flight. .

"nospamPlease" wrote in message
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I am thinking of purchasing a hand held radio (tranceiver).

Can anyone recommend one ? I am a student pilot.

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A transceiver might be useful as a backup if you fly in Class B a lot,
and for IFR. But I can't think of any other reason why a student pilot
would need a transceiver. If you are interested in listening to ATC
communications, buy a scanner.


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I am thinking of purchasing a hand held radio (tranceiver).

Can anyone recommend one ? I am a student pilot.

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