Re: Anyone buy a Repack Icom M504?
What's the bargain? These companies can put whatever list price on their radios they want and they can only be 25 watt max anyway.
Here is just an example of (in my opinion as strong or stronger name than Icom) and a google search shows them starting new at $79
Google: Standard Horizon GX1000SW 25W FXMOUNT25W FX Mount Eclipse WT DSC
After purchasing a new radio go to Squaretrade.com (owned by Ebay) and for a few bucks extend your radios 1 year warranty out to 3 years. Doesn't matter where you purchased it from with Squaretrade.
Save your dollars on that refurbed, no warranty radio and put some of the savings towards an good antenna (if you don't have a good 8 footer already) like the:
Google: Shakespeare Galaxy 5225-XT VHF Antenna
These also can be found for under $100 new and a good antenna is more important than the radio in my opinion.
Most radios that are shown in white and antennas can also be found in black too in the same models. Mine are both black!
