Icom IC-F210 does Aus UHF CB and Amateur 70cm Bands

If you want a commercial grade radio to cover Australian UHF CB and the Amateur 70cm band. The IC-F210 from Icom may be your answer. I bought one off Ebay as a rugged UHF CB for my 4WD. Specs are 440 - 490MHz but to my surprise, this radio is also working very well down on the 70cm band and saves me having to have many radios to cover different bands when mobile. 430Mhz to 440Mhz TX & RX perfectly. Mic pin outs also similar to Icom Amateur. Packet gear plugs straight in and works.
HM-154T DTMF mic works (Note - Pin 2 and 8 are different so don't use the up and down buttons, keep switch off and Scan will not work if hook functions are programmed for 'on hook' scan) otherwise functions as normal.

Compatible with other gear I use with my IC-706 MkIIG rig.

The IC-F210 has 128 channels which can be set up into 1 or as many as 8 different banks you can name.
I used two. Bank 1 'UHF CB'
Bank 2 '70CM'
I have set up scan groups to independently scan the two bands separate.

All front panel buttons are programmable with software. Versatile, compact. Selectable low1 low2 and high power (can program button for example)

The video is a quick basic review of the rig at my shack. Good 'all in one' mobile/base UHF.

Sorry for the poor video as some of it may not be very clear.

More videos to come soon on programming, operation and features of the radio.

73's

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Science & Technology

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• CB
• UHF
• 70cm
• Amateur
• Radio
• programming
• Icom
• IC-F210
• Ham
• two-way
• VK3TVZ

[jphdg]

Sorry if this was already obvious to you, but it sounds like you need to disabled your CTCSS/ PL tone on RX.

When you key up, do you see the signal meter show a signal in receive? If so it is possible your tone is still set and this will need to be disabled for the radio to un-mute. There should be something in the manual that shows you how to enable/disable that function. Don't forget to set the squelch close to threshold and volume off from the minimum and it should come to life.

John

[18AUSSIE4LIFE]

g-day ... i just bought a portable UHF 1 watt radio, and when i talk to my mate in the 4x4 with his base UHF he can here me, but when he sends a radio transmison back i cant here him why is that ?? please i need to know asap going to tomson dam this weekend cheers ..

[jphdg]

@18AUSSIE4LIFE

Hi there. First off if you are using channel 1 to 8. Check the duplex button on your friends radio. If it is a commercial grade radio it may be programmed in duplex. Best of using a channel above the repeaters such as 9 to 40.

If you still cannot hear him, check if you have your CTCSS tone squelch enabled.

Also you should be able to tell if there is an incoming signal being received by indication of an RX LED, signal meter or RX indicator in your display.

Hope this helps :)

[jphdg]

@jphdg

Just one other note, I know it is obvious, but check your squelch is not flat out and you have some volume. You should be able to hear the squelch noise when you turn the squelch to mininum. Adjust volume to a comfortable level and then set the squelch just a little higher above the cut off point.

Good luck there.

[18AUSSIE4LIFE]

@jphdg yer cheers mate iv all ready figured it out about 5 mins b4 we started 4x4ing and yer it was the ctcss mate thanks anyway pal

[jphdg]

@18AUSSIE4LIFE

No worries mate, good you got it all working now. :) Happy 4X4'ing

[steven74213]

thank you for or help i will give it a go

thank you to jphdg

[steven74213]

i need some help plase with my radio i have TYT TH-F5 i can get the repeater 476.4500 get Audio in but no Audio out. have offset on 00750 and + plus shift. that give me the repeater.. just like it for UHF CB NOT for HAM RADIO

CAN SOME PALES HELP ME I AM LOST. EMAIL ME ON BJ.STEVEN@MAIL.COM

THANK YOU

[er10b]

sounds like vhq07 at 1:00

colourful bunch they are - I still remember the first unprintable singalong I heard and a guy with a voice like gravel boasting about ... connect the dots on that one.

Going to get me a portable UHF one day to listen to these yobbos.

[jphdg]

Thanks Stephen. I knew you guys had a 934Mhz band but did not know they took it off you. That would have been quite an interesting band to play with. I guess it would be similar to the 1200 MHz 23cm band and if you have good LOS and height, you would have made contacts over very long distance even on very small RF output.

Become a radio amateur and as you say, plenty of bands and modes to play with! :)