The nice thing about being on the engineering side of the house (as opposed to
the business side) is that my decisions are based on the quality and technical
superiority of one product over another. Business reasons played very little in
my decision.

I considered the Vertex superior in terms of mechanical design and the resultant
reliability. As was pointed out elsewhere, that chicken$#!t advertising 5 watts
RF output (and then in small letters "PEP") isn't far from deceptive
advertising, but that's the way some other companies are doing it and I guess to
be competitive you have to play the game.

Actually, you can't really go wrong with either Vertex or Icom. What I wish
Vertex would do is come out with a permanent panel mount flatpack like the Icom
and then I'd REALLY be happy.

Jim



Cub Driver
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:11:12 -0800, Jim Weir wrote:
-
-After a hell of a lot of
-work and research, I settled on Vertex. THe reasons would take me an hour to
-lay out, so I won't.
-
-I would one would appreciate hearing any of them that related to the
-units' performance, durability, etc (as opposed to business reasons).


Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com