ICOM IC-R3 MINI-TV RECEIVER IS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
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The Icom IC-R3, a small handheld receiver with a 2" T-F-T color display has been popular 
with ATV'ers involved in Emergency Communications for mobile reception of TV pictures 
may soon go extinct. Icom announced on april 26th that the IC-R3-26, blocked version for 
the United States market, is currently on backorder with the delay is due to the FCC's 
Part 15.112 rules change. This ruling states that all TV receivers imported into the 
United States, after March 1, 2007, must be DTV compatible. As the IC-R3 is analog only, 
so it will no longer be imported for domestic sales. When existing stocks are gone, 
that's all there will ever be.
(AR-Newsline)