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The IC-A6 radio in USA is around the $300 mark (both $US and $AUS) whilst in Australia the IC-A6-Aus is selling at around $550 to $600.I asked Icom Australia what the difference was and Bernard de Robillard from Icom replied stating "the Aus version was pre-programmed and accredited in Australia and the imported version is illegal". Then he goes on to say "Our radio gets through many tests we pay for at the ACMA and gets accredited. Search for the laws relating to communications equipment not approved for Australian use and the penalties that can go into tens of thousands of dollars for their use.
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Skyhigh the A6 when it first came out would not work very well when using a head set with it. I had one it was sent back to Icom a few time. You would get feed back in the head set. Icom had me try every head set helmet combo and nuthing helped. In the end i was told that the battery voltage that the radio ran would not run the Mic in a head set. check the web for info Icom gave me an A4 insteed because it dose work with a head set. A6 worked great as a hand held but not in flight with a head set.
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How long ago was that?Keith
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Just a clarification on the opening post in this topic which provides a mixture of correct and incorrect information.The quote from Steven Harrison of ACMA is correct.What is incorrect is the statement by the author:I have checked and as far as I can see, the radio complies.
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What does this tell ya.
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What does this tell ya.
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Disco the 1 minute restriction is incorporated in case say your push to talk button (or wiring) inadvertently shorts out. This then would preclude ALL other users on that frequency from communication for the duration it took for you to realise that it was YOUR radio jamming a significant area of radio ops. This on a good day could be several hundred square kilometers.Regards....Chook.
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It gets me thinking about radio too like wait your turn there is a lot of hetradine going on out there you miss a lot of comm"s for the squeals. From my experience I Com is quite a respectable radio. I was told you could send the UHF radios in for a factory mod for 50w too, don"t know if you could still do that as there is a ACA limit on op power not too difficult to get a license though. Mike.
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John, I know if I was creating a product which was going to be sold in many countries with different rules and regs, I"d design it with a single piece of hardware which could be modded with software so that I didn"t have small production runs that cost twice the money.
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John, I know if I was creating a product which was going to be sold in many countries with different rules and regs, I"d design it with a single piece of hardware which could be modded with software so that I didn"t have small production runs that cost twice the money.This is easy to say in retrospect, but unfortunately the original radio was designed that way in Japan without reference to the Australian requirements (the only country that mandates a timeout timer and has more stringent performance characteristics at extremes of environmental condition) and nothing could change that once the design was produced.
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I was told you could send the UHF radios in for a factory mod for 50w too, don"t know if you could still do that as there is a ACA limit on op power not too difficult to get a license though. Mike.
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