I absolutely agree! I love this radio and everything it does but I can't stand the audio from this itty bitty built-in speaker. What was Icom thinking? It's tinny sounding, almost like the speaker cone itself is being squashed up against the rest of the guts in the front panel. I'm sticking with my '92 simply because I can hear it! I haven't yet tried an external speaker/mic with the '80 but that might well help out. Otherwise, same assessment on this end. It's a great radio and works well. Display is very easy to read and the radio is generally easy to use. The receiver is acceptable and the transmit audio is quite impressive! The programming software is now free and one can make their own cable in a matter of a few minutes. Regardless, I too have to knock off at minimum a couple of brownie points because of the internal speaker issues.
73- Steve KA4YMY --- In [email protected], "theicom" <g...@...> wrote: > > I own this radio. It's built very solid, feels good in your hand. Not too > difficult to program. The battery life seems to be good. However, Icom should > be ashamed of the speaker, this radio is near impossible to hear outside. My > VX-3R is louder and clearer (measured with sound meter). As should be > expected from a small display, it's hard to read the dstar messages, and the > memory only holds the last one received. > > Overall, I'd give it a 3.4 out of 5 > > > > --- In [email protected], Matt Harrington <mbh.lists@> wrote: > > > > I'm newly licensed and still getting acquainted with various sites. > > eham.net doesn't have any comments on Icom's IC-80AD: > > > > http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/8302 > > > > Where else should I look for reviews on this model? Maybe I'll just > > have to wait a bit since it's new. > > > > Matt > > >
