Sad part is, the guy who helped him with his questions has an un-blocked
Euro version R-5 for sale.

Dan

"Charlie Chan" wrote in message
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"DeWayne" wrote:


You do know that the US version has part of the 800 MHz band blocked
by mistake? Unless Icom fixed the problem that is.


DeWayne,

Unfortunately, that's by design by Icom for US sales.


You misunderstood. Icom blanked out some legal 800 MHz freqs in the USA
versions.