iCom blues

[senior]

Just a word of advice.
I just recently thought I'd upgrade my old iCom A-22 to a little A-4.
Cute little things but the antenia is now in the way of the adapter to plug into intercomm! No biggy just get a new adapter.

$100 for a simple little adapter OPC752 that's exactly the same as the one I already have for the A-22 except the plug-in out of radio is straight up to clear antenia recepticle.
Aircraft Spruce doesn't even have a listing for one!
IMHO what a screw-up by iCom

[Dano"T"]

Re: iCom blues

I'd never trade my A22 it's a great unit....seems it'll never die. The Icom guy at Osh told me he hates the A22 cause the owners keep them forever...they just won't die...hard on sales for him

[O.Taylor]

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While in Oregon, Erickson Air Crane bought 6 A-22's for different places, several of us workers got some at a real good "bulk" price, one of them was in the crash of a P-38 in Tillamook, OR. my son and I had worked on it for several years, we went to the crash site a couple days after the wreckage had been moved, up in a tree was the A-22 hanging with the battery broken and hanging by the wires, I got my little son on my shoulders, stood up and he reached up and got the radio, we took it home, hooked the battery from my A-22 in it and it came up on 122.8. Works good, lasts a long time, don't mess with it.

[Robert Lees]

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A22's are good, as are the old A20's. Stick with them. Replacement batteries (if required) are cheap from Batteries America.

The newer Icom's don't have the power.

[senior]

Re: iCom blues

Thanks guys
For the price of a $100 adapter i could easily buy a new battery with enough left over for beer

A-22 is the way I'm going.