ID-50A/E Ham Radio Announced! What could the price be?
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Icom have announced the new ID-50A/E, available in July-Aug 2023. Here I go over the press announcement and dare to speculate on what I think the price could end up being.
If Icom are targeting the FT5, I think the ID-50 needs a price point of £350 or less.
I don't see it happening, just my opinion.
I have an FT5, and the IC-705, both great radios. I find Fusion much simpler than D-Star.
I agree. Unless they set £330 give or take £10 there is no way they are going to unseat Yaesu's FT5 with that radio.
My guess it will be barely under $500 US. With the 52 on sale at some dealers here for $599 US, the 50 is would not be a good deal at that price point. The bi-directional USB-C is great, even if it has to be tethered to an Android device. Personally, the 51 screen was a major issue for me. If it’s a lot better than the 51, I might get one. I love D-Star and the common menus between the 50 and 52, it’s a lot easier to negotiate than the Yaesu (IMO).
I put a deposit down on this radio. The U.S. dealer asked me for $35 USD. I assume that they are ball parking the deposit at about 10% of the price. So, somewhere between $350-400 USD. Sadly, where I live, in Reno, Nevada, D-Star is currently offline. We have a repeater, but the trustee has passed away, and our local club (the repeater is on one of our club tower sites) cannot get the SK ham's family to release the repeater to us.
I suspect a little more on the retail price for NA, but not going to be far out. I hope you manage to sort the repeater out with the SK’s family. 73 DE K6JSX
Available for preorder at WIMO in the EU for 500 Euro so 430 Gbp, not a bad guess. I am taking my test around that time so might treat myself for one. Cheers!
Where have you seen that price on Wimo’s website? I can only see the deposit? 73!
Keep up with the content Jonathon - it is always good use of my time to watch! If the TH-D75 is "real" and it actually makes it to market would be good hear your views. Steve
I’ve got a ID52 and love it,I think if they sell the ID50 at £375 they will sell like hot cakes 😊
ICOM is Competing with the Yeasu FT5D HT!
I agree with Simon, the ID50 looks like it's packed with options I'm thinking that it'll retail for around £350 but that's just speculation until it's release date and will sell really well.
Icom's comparison page says no uhf airband, which the id52 has.
What is UHF airband?
@@DonzLockz military
@@tbz4834 ah okay, didn't know that.👍
I assume they are phasing out the id51 with the id50 at 350 it would be ideal does not seem to mention bluetooth though
Hi Peter, the ID-51 was discontinued a few years ago to make way for the ID-52. The ID-50 can been seen as Icom bringing back the ID-51 in all but name! 73!
Hopefully I will see it at Friedrichshafen
Possibly!
The ID 31, you can get secondhand for £100. It’s UHF only like this one. Obviously There is more stuff on the 50, but how much is the new one worth?
IIRC, the early ID-31 doesn’t have DR mode. That would be a dealbreaker for me!
The ID-50 is dual band.
Anywhere between £350 and £430 my thoughts exactly
But are they trying to compete with the FT5DR or the FT70DR though? Or somewhere in between? I'm thinking $250-$350 maybe?
I'd buy one for that, much more - pass.
I've been itching to try an icom radio as well as get into d-star so I must admit I paid ML&S the £50 deposit for this radio without even knowing what the price will be. Fingers crossed for ~£350!
Oh, and @M0JSX, who makes that mag mount you've got stuck to the radiator in the background?
Awesome, we get a new Icom and Kenwood HT. Hope pricing on the aint too crazy.🙏
I'll be making a video reaction to all the news from Dayton over the weekend :)
@@M0JSX that would be awesome. 🍻👍
I got 3 D-STAR radios: ID-5100A, IC-705 and ID-52. I struggle with the audio on my IC-705, but the ID-5100A and 52A sound great. If Icom is trying to have a radio to compete with the FT5D, it needs to be around $450 or less here in the states.
If Icom released it a long time, I probably would have got it instead of the ID-52. $650 for an HT is expensive and a bit mind boggling. Great radio and i bet the ID-50 will work just as good as the ID-52.
That’s interesting, my 705 sounded great to me, I got outstanding TX audio reports too. I do think the 52 is excellent (and may be better than the 705), very punchy at 5 mic gain for analog. I use the echo test on D Star and set mine at 4 for that mode.
I used the echo test with the IC-705 and it sounded great to me. When on D-Star, I got low audio reports.
@@pale_2111 what’s you mic gain setting?
I usually run 20 to 25% mic gain.
@@pale_2111 try 40 to 50%. I could barely be heard at 25%.
Another HT radio, still waiting for a waterproof rugged manpack all mode transceiver
I think we’ve previously discussed this, and how you might be waiting a while. 73!
@@M0JSX with the amount of people now working sota pota iota and the outdoors in general you can’t tell me there isn’t a client base ready to sell to. Just look at the number of operators using the 705,817/8,kx3,tx500,even the Chinese portables and larger radios such as the 891,857,897 all put into service outdoors but then you need batteries charging solutions etc,so why not make a purpose built radio.
It’s not as if there is no money in the hobby every manufacturer has flagship models costing upwards of £5k + is it too much to ask to make a 705 waterproof with an 12 - 18Ah battery ? Or for yaesu to give us the new 897 even Kenwood has given us the new th.d75 another HT there are more desk radios than you can shake a stick at, as for mobile units there seems to be a new one every month.
Is part of the fun of those activations designing your kit bag/box to be right for your operations? I suspect that if a manufacturer did release a radio perfect for you, there would be lots more complaining it didn’t have xyz.
@@M0JSX then maybe they should ask, as for the past 40 years all I’ve done is find solutions to mirror military radios but I do have the majority of those radios listed as you well know being you sold several to me including the 8 series of Yaesu radios in the past 15 years
@@Stealthmodeactivated-h8w if you are just mirroring military radios, why not use military radios?
My point still stands though, even if a radio was perfect for you, it wouldn’t be perfect for all and if a manufacturer can get to a lowest common denominator status where it has a lot of why a lot of people want then they have a viable product.