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is an international manufacturer of radio
transmitting and receiving equipment, founded in 1954 by Tokuzo Inoue. Its products include equipment for radio amateurs
, pilots, maritime applications, land mobile professional applications and radio scanner enthusiasts.
Its headquarters are in Osaka
, Japan
, with branch offices in the United States
(in Bellevue, Washington
), Canada
(in Delta, British Columbia
), Australia
(Melbourne
, Victoria
), New Zealand
(Auckland
), the United Kingdom
(Kent
, England
), France
(Toulouse
), Spain
(Barcelona
) and the People's Republic of China
(Beijing
).
protocol for two-way digital radio
products intended for commercial Private Land Mobile Radio (PLMR) and low-end public safety communications systems. NXDN
is a Common Air Interface (CAI) technical standard for mobile communications. It was developed jointly by Icom, Incorporated and Kenwood Corporation.
. This system is designed to provide advanced voice and data communications over Amateur radio using open standards.
ICOM manufactures two way radios
and receivers for use in marine applications, Airband
, amateur radio
applications, land mobile applications http://icomamerica.com/en/landmobile/, and FRS
/ GMRS applications. Some radios made by ICOM are compatible with Motorola
and SmarTrunk trunking systems.
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
transmitting and receiving equipment, founded in 1954 by Tokuzo Inoue. Its products include equipment for radio amateurs
Amateur radio
Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...
, pilots, maritime applications, land mobile professional applications and radio scanner enthusiasts.
Its headquarters are in Osaka
Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, with branch offices in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
(in Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...
), Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
(in Delta, British Columbia
Delta, British Columbia
Delta is a district municipality in British Columbia, and forms part of Metro Vancouver. Located south of Richmond, it is bordered by the Fraser River to the north, the United States to the south and the city of Surrey to the east...
), Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
(Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
), New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
(Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
), the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
(Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
), France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
(Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
), Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
(Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
) and the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
(Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
).
IDAS
IDAS http://www.icom.co.jp/world/idas/index.html http://www.icomamerica.com/en/products/landmobile/idas/idas/default.aspx is Icom's implementation of the NXDNNXDN
NXDN is a Common Air Interface technical protocol for mobile communications. It was developed jointly by Icom Incorporated and Kenwood Corporation. was formed in order to promote the NXDN protocol in North and South America...
protocol for two-way digital radio
Digital radio
Digital radio has several meanings:1. Today the most common meaning is digital radio broadcasting technologies, such as the digital audio broadcasting system, also known as Eureka 147. In these systems, the analog audio signal is digitized into zeros and ones, compressed using formats such as...
products intended for commercial Private Land Mobile Radio (PLMR) and low-end public safety communications systems. NXDN
NXDN
NXDN is a Common Air Interface technical protocol for mobile communications. It was developed jointly by Icom Incorporated and Kenwood Corporation. was formed in order to promote the NXDN protocol in North and South America...
is a Common Air Interface (CAI) technical standard for mobile communications. It was developed jointly by Icom, Incorporated and Kenwood Corporation.
D-STAR
ICOM has developed the D-STAR open radio system based on digital radio protocols developed by the Japan Amateur Radio LeagueJapan Amateur Radio League
The Japan Amateur Radio League is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Japan. JARL was founded in 1926 by Japanese radio communication enthusiasts whose stated aim was to promote the development and utilization of radio wave technology as a medium...
. This system is designed to provide advanced voice and data communications over Amateur radio using open standards.
Products
Two-way radio
A two-way radio is a radio that can both transmit and receive , unlike a broadcast receiver which only receives content. The term refers to a personal radio transceiver that allows the operator to have a two-way conversation with other similar radios operating on the same radio frequency...
and receivers for use in marine applications, Airband
Airband
Airband or Aircraft band is the name for a group of frequencies in the VHF radio spectrum allocated to radio communication in civil aviation, sometimes also referred to as VHF, or phonetically as "Victor"...
, amateur radio
Amateur radio
Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...
applications, land mobile applications http://icomamerica.com/en/landmobile/, and FRS
Family Radio Service
The Family Radio Service is an improved walkie talkie radio system authorized in the United States since 1996. This personal radio service uses channelized frequencies in the ultra high frequency band. It does not suffer the interference effects found on citizens' band at 27 MHz, or the...
/ GMRS applications. Some radios made by ICOM are compatible with Motorola
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
and SmarTrunk trunking systems.
Amateur HF transceivers
- IC-7000
- IC-701
- IC-703
- IC-706
- IC-707
- IC-718
- IC-720
- IC-7200
- IC-720A
- IC-725
- IC-726
- IC-728
- IC-729
- IC-730
- IC-732
- IC-735
- IC-736
- IC-737
- IC-737A
- IC-738
- IC-740
- IC-7400
- IC-745
- IC-746
- IC-746Pro
- IC-751
- IC-751A
- IC-756
- IC-756Pro
- IC-756ProII
- IC-756ProIII
- IC-7600
- IC-761
- IC-765
- IC-7700
- IC-775DSP
- IC-7800
- IC-781
Amateur VHF/UHF mobile transceivers
- IC-F121
- IC-2820H
- IC-1271A
- IC-1275A
- IC-2000H
- IC-201
- IC-202
- IC-202S
- IC-207H
- IC-207H
- IC-208H
- IC-2100H
- IC-211
- IC-215
- IC-2200H
- IC-228A & H
- IC-229A/H
- IC-22A
- IC-22S
- IC-22U / IC-24E
- IC-230
- IC-2330A
- IC-2340H
- IC-2350H
- IC-2400A
- IC-2410H
- IC-245
- IC-251A
- IC-255A
- IC-25A
- IC-260A
- IC-2700H
- IC-2710
- IC-2710H
- IC-271A/H
- IC-2720
- IC-2720H
- IC-2725E
- IC-275A/H
- IC-27A/H
- IC-2800
- IC-2800H
- IC-2800H
- IC-281H
- IC-2820H
- IC-28A/H
- IC-290A/H
- IC-3200A
- IC-3210A
- IC-3230
- IC-375A
- IC-37A/H
- IC-38A
- IC-402
- IC-451A
- IC-45A
- IC-471A/H
- IC-475A/H
- IC-47A/H
- IC-490A
- IC-501
- IC-502
- IC-502A
- IC-505
- IC-551
- IC-551D
- IC-560
- IC-575H
- IC-71
- IC-820H
- IC-821
- IC-821H
- IC-901A/E
- IC-910H
- IC-970
- IC-970H
- IC-Delta 100
- IC-E208
- IC-F521
- IC-V8000
- ID-1
- ID-800
- ID-880
Amateur VHF/UHF portable transceivers
- IC-V80
- IC-V85
- IC-w31a
- Icom 2GXAT
- Icom 3AT
- Icom A24LI
- Icom E90
- Icom F3GS
- IC-2E
- IC-02AT
- IC-03AT
- IC-24 AT
- IC-2AT
- IC-2GAT
- IC-2GXAT
- IC-2iA
- IC-2SE
- IC-2SRA, (4SRA)
- IC-32AT
- IC-3AT
- IC-3SAT
- IC-4SA
- IC-80AD
- IC-91
- IC-91AD
- IC-92AD
- IC-DELTA1A
- IC-E7
- IC-E90
- IC-F30GS
- IC-H16
- IC-M3
- IC-O3AT
- IC-P7A
- IC-Q7A
- IC-T22A
- IC-T22H
- IC-T2H
- IC-T3H
- IC-T70A
- IC-T7H
- IC-T81A/E
- IC-T90A
- IC-U82
- IC-V21AT
- IC-V68
- IC-V8
- IC-V80
- IC-V82
- IC-W21A
- IC-W2A
- IC-W32A
- IC-Z1A
- Icom P2AT
- Icom P3AT
- Icom P4AT
- Icom Q7A
- Icom T21A
- Icom T8a
- Icom µ2AT