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Radio => Digital Modes => Topic started by: n1ic on December 01, 2013, 07:31:54 AM

Title: Unboxing the Icom IC-F4161DT
Post by: n1ic on December 01, 2013, 07:31:54 AM
Unboxing the Icom IC-F4161DT

As my wife would say, I am at it again with radios. I just picked up the Icom IC-F4161DT NXDN Radio. If you do not know much about NXDN I would recommend that you check out these few pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXDN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXDN)

http://www.nxdn-forum.com/ (http://www.nxdn-forum.com/)

The reason I jumped aboard is that my club NI4CE has taking the leap with our 10 country coverage of repeaters we have started the process of updated them to NXDN. http://www.ni4ce.org/nxdn/ (http://www.ni4ce.org/nxdn/)

Here is a blurb, but you could read more at their site: Earlier this year, the West Central Florida Group, Inc. made a strategic decision to replace the D-Star digital repeater at Riverview with an industry standard NXDN repeater from ICOM. In addition, the new ICOM FR6000 UHF repeaters now in service at Verna (442.950 MHz) and Holiday (443.450 MHz) also support MIXED mode 25 KHz analog voice and 6.25 KHz NXDN digital communications on demand.

I decided that it was time for me to think about this challenge since I always like to be on the latest technologies and also I love radios ☺ I think we all know that by now if you have read my articles about Ham Radio.

Full article: http://nicktoday.com/unboxing-icom-ic-f4161dt-nxdn-radio/ (http://nicktoday.com/unboxing-icom-ic-f4161dt-nxdn-radio/)