Nice to see Icom coming to the UHF CB market with the IC-450 radio which looks compact and really quite stylish in some ways. The radio itself is called the “next generation” of CB on UHF and below we’ve got some of the details and also a photo so please click on the read more icon and then you’ll see this new Icom. UHF First so can it be 27Mhz later?
5 Watts (High) and 1 Watt (Low) Selectable Output Power
80 CB Channels plus up to 35 receive only Channels
Noise Cancelling Microphone Icom
Voice Recorder allowing up to 10 messages recorded with a total recording time of 5 minutes (30 seconds per message)
Built-in Speaker
12 or 24 Volt automatically detected
Voice Guidance which announces channel type and number
Small and compact for installation
Main unit can be mounted out of sight
New design, compact control speaker microphone with newly designed user interface and menu structure
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This will be for the Australia and New Zealand markets. Should be easily adaptable for European 446 MHz though, albeit with a pityful 8 channels.
Looks nice bit of kit,Icom need convincing to do a 10\11\12m radio.
Icom won’t do anything for 27MHz.