Hi Lil' Petunia, Yes I have one, sold my Microair to a club and bought the xcom, it is working well. I mainly use the dual watch feature, which allows me to listen to our CTAF and also listen to 122.900. The dual watch has a Pip Pip sound when listening on the standby channel ( someone is talking ) this is the radio going off and checking the active to see if anyone is there, then it comes back, you get used to it. Talking to Michael at Xcom Avionics ( see www.xcom760.com ) he saids most buy the radio for this feature as well as the 6 - 7 watts output and built in VOX intercom ( obviously not required in a pure glider ).
I support anything made here in Oz, Xcom , Borgelt , Holden.... We need an Oz made datalogger with inbuilt GPS and IGC approval, then the only thing made overseas is the glider, we should make them as well! At the Dalby nats the Dual Watch was handy if you left early, to see when the vultures left behind you and still be on the saftey channel! Cheers Nigel P.S To those that don't know, I no longer have anything to do with Microair. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trevor West Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 8:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Xcom radio Will we see Nigel buying one ??? LP --- Robert Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 22:19, Ian McPhee wrote: > > Often you do not get the positive feedback - this > is a good one I > > thought and was all a 11.30 hour job and Australia > Post Express did > > perform. Thank you Jack..... Ian McPhee > > Alice also has a new XCOM radio. > > We put it in just before the Qld State comps and it > was used extensively > there and at the Dalby Nationals. Apart from one > teething problem > (quickly fixed and permanently so in production > models) it has wrked > very well. > > -- > Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +61 (0)438 385 533 > Brisbane, Australia > http://www.hart.wattle.id.au > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
