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Re: Radio cuts out, student's foot run over

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Originally Posted by whytheheckme View Post
Why do the old 06 radios which are RS-232 have no problem, while these new larger RS-422 radios have all sorts of problems.

Also, they wont let us use the old ones. WHY???



Jacob
Actually, the '06 radios are also RS-422 (none of these radios were ever RS-232). The reason that IFI is not re-using the old radios is that they cannot get any more, as Electrowave (the suppliers of the radios) cannot get parts to build any more--this was in another thread on CD somewhere (I forget where ).

I am not happy about this either. I have also had critical parts discontinued for a product that I designed--not a good place to be.
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