HAM radios:

No blatant design flaws,

Beats published specs, not just barely meets it,

Is up tuned properly,

Must except the normal use and abuse, in its intended purpose, mechanical, electrical, vibration, environmental, etc...

HF Mobile; Some ham radios don't like voltages less than 12.0 vdc???

Normal car voltages, range is between, 11.5-15.5 vdc, nominal is, 12-14.5 vcdc...

Again, Mobile application; Should attempt to make water (moisture) resistant. Cars often do get water in them (even if only vapors)...

HT; Radios normally get drooped from at least 3 ft or so, and get wet, from rain...

My ideal, Hand held radio:

• Think of a Kenwood F6a, Yeasu Vx-5/7r, plus:
• 100 kHz to 1300 MHz, Rx,
• Tx on:
• 6m, 2m, 222, 440 MHz, option# 1,
• plus, 902, 1300 MHZ, opt# 2,
• Tx's .5 to 1W of RF, (W/opt# 4) on any ham band, it can Rx, opt# 3,
• All mode (Tx, opt# 4,
• All mode Rx, SSB/AM/FM/Data,
• Wide, normal, and narrow Rx bandwidths,
• Key pad laid out normally (not like vx-5/7r radios),
• Consistence between modals (you would expect that the vx7r would be programed like the vx5r, nop totally different?!?!
• Totally back lit key pad, like cell phones are,
• Simultaneously receive (true) Duel band,
• Has a good squelch (see HF radio squelch, below),
• Has full accessory jack on the bottom of the radio, antenna, sp, mic, dc, etc.
• Docking station. For home or car use.
• Uses std mic (MH-59A8J) and antenna jacks (UHF Connector for, HF-6m, And N-Con. for, 2m-1300MHz),
• Has fan as an option,
• Has DSP as an option,
• Has RF/AF amplifiers, as an option,
• HF-6M, 25-50W,
• 2/1.25/70Cm, 25-50W,
• 1300 MHz, 10W
• AF, 5W

My ideal, Hand held, lower cost, radio:

Think of a Kenwood F6a, Yeasu Vx-5/7r, plus:

500 kHz to 1300 MHz, Rx,

Tx on:

6m, 2m, 440 MHz, option# 1,

plus, 222, 902, 1300 MHZ, opt# 2,

All mode Rx, SSB/AM/FM/Data,

Normal, and narrow Rx bandwidths,

Key pad laid out normally (not like vx-5/7r radios),

Totally back lit key pad, like cell phones are,

Has a good squelch (see HF radio squelch, below),

Has full accessory jack on the bottom of the radio, antenna, sp, mic, dc, etc.

Docking station. For home or car use.

Uses std mic (MH-59A8J) and antenna jacks (UHF Connector for, HF-6m, And N-Con. for, 2m-1300MHz),

Has fan as an option,

Has DSP as an option,

Has RF/AF amplifiers, as an option,

• 6M, 25-50W,
• 2/1.25/70Cm, 25-50W,
• 1300 MHz, 10W,
• AF, 5W,

 

HF Radio:

Mobile radios:

• Good mobile egernomics (easy to use, while driving),
• Not too small, IC-706 or FT-100d, sized, no smaller!!!
• 30 kHz to 1300 MHz, Rx,
• HF HAM band through 440 MHz,
• 1300 MHz, as an option, opt-1,
• including 222 and 902 MHz, opt-2
• Normal use RF power near to 100% duty cycle (many HF radios of today will smoke if you use at 100W on say, 10M FM! for a long conversation, i.e. exceeds duty cycle),
• 200W, opt-3,
• 400W, opt-4,
• A real RF NB (noise blanker) or at least on that really works,
• Good DSP geared to reduces noise, especially noises associated with vehicles,
• Attn and Pre(Amp) to work on HF, and V/UHF,
• Squelch circuits problems:
• Option the squelch or RF gain to be either the knob or a digital setting in the standard menus. (On the 100d, if you select rf gain to be on the knob then you lose squelch on HF. Then when you change to FM the squelch is set to max (normal rf max).
• I'd like to have 16 digital setting of rf gain or squelch,
• Squelches need hystereses, and need to not, pop, click, or motorboat,
• And MUST be at least as sensitive as the receiver sensitivity,
• Should be at least , 0.02 More sensitive,
• Should differentiate between modes:
• Digital mode needs a fast on/off squelch,
• But for AM, SSB, and FM, it should use a "Motorola Micor" type squelch,
• RF squelch option (Beside the std noise squelch) include. 0.5-10 as a setting,
• Have as an "and/or" squelch,
• AM should sound good, both Rx and Tx,
• All voice modes should allow for both, Rx and Tx bandwidth control, up to 3.5 kHz, (should default to 2.4 kHZ (SSB). Except AM, up to 4.8 kHZ and default to 3.5 kHZ),
• Settings:
• Each mode should have it own settings,
• RF power setting,
• DSP,
• Attn/PreAmp,
• Rx/Tx BW,
• NB,
• Etc.
• All HAM companies should have a standardized digital interface for digital modes, programming memories, remote use, and for antenna tunners/Screewdrivers controllers,
• Have a universal screwdriver controller that will control any screwdriver antenna,