ICOM IC2720H walkie-talkie VHF/UHF Mobile Transceiver
you select which receiver you want to work with by pressing a button in the upper left corner of the rig called “Band”, (took me a bit to realize this really means “Radio, or which side you want to mess with), you then turn the “Channel” control, selecting the pre-programmed channel and offset, adjust the squelch, perhaps select an output power, and you are finished. If you want to set a second frequency to listen to, you press the “Band” button on the otehr side, and do exactly the same thing to the right side of the radio. Once finished, you are able to monitor two frequencies at once, (or maybe have one side scanning, and the other side of the radio set to your favorite repeater), and transmit on either by pressing a single button to select which side transmits…
If you are not near something which causes intermod, (like another transmitter), the rig is fine, if you are near anything which can cause intermod, it will cause intermod, and your monitoring is over… This becomes particularity annoying when you are scanning a range of frequencies, or pre-programmed channels. The scan stops on the intermod, and you either have to tell it to move on, or wait for it to end… There is an add on from Par Electronics which a friend who purchased one say works well in reducing or removing the intermod. Having not used one, I can not speak to how effective they are, someday soon I will be purchasing one for the rig and adding a review of it here. I took the rig on a trip from Oregon to Arizona, most of the time it was fine, but when I got into any large city, like San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, etc. the radio became almost useless a great deal of the time. While running across the deserts of Nevada, and Arizona the extra power the rig has, (50 watts), comes in very handy. When in smaller towns the intermod was not an issue.
Pros:
- Removable control head
- High Power
- Easy to operate once programmed
- Comes with remote control Microphone
- Control head is very small, and the lay out was well thought out
- Good quality audio in both receive and transmit
- Display color is changeable
- 200 memories
- Packet ready
- Cross band Repeat
- Wide Frequency coverage
- MARS modifiable