Any pireps / thoughts on these two radios?
GTR-200
Has standby freq monitoring which is nice for flying with other airplanes, checking ATIS, etc. More transmit power (probably non-factor for RV's). Great intercom from what I've read.
TY91
Has 8.33 kHz spacing which is nice if I ever get a wild hair and wanted to fly to Europe. Remote mountable box which is awesome -- might put it down by the antenna and save a coax run. Controller head takes up less panel space. Good intercom.
Thanks!
Hello Chattin35,
Thank you for considering the GTR 200 for your radio and intercom.
While on the surface each of these devices is a radio with an intercom, there is certainly a lot more to the story and we encourage you to dig into the details before purchasing.
For example, mono versus stereo may or may not be important to you, but most of us now use stereo headsets and no longer use mono headsets or mono wiring for our headset jacks, so you may not want a radio/intercom that is mono only including the intercom.
You may also not want an intercom that doesn't support a stereo music input with single button music on/off and auto music muting when a radio transmission is received.
Intercom auto-squelch is another important feature to many of us. As reported by others, the advanced auto-squelch technology in the GTR 200 works extremely well and is preferred over a manually adjusted intercom squelch.
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GTR 200 provides a state-of-the-art audio system with many powerful features common to high end audio panels including advanced auto-squelch, 3D audio, stereo intercom, stereo music input with bass boost and music equalizer settings, dual alert inputs, best-in-class standby frequency monitoring, on-screen frequency identification, and much more.
In this example image you can see that one of the two user assignable softkeys has been assigned to turn on/off the stereo music that is heard by everyone using the built-in stereo intercom system. The other softkey is assigned to the pilot isolate feature if you need to quickly isolate yourself from a chatty passenger to talk to ATC. One of these softkeys can even be assigned to be the PTT button in case you were to lose use of the stick mounted button.
The GTR 200 does not have an installed database, yet is able to use frequency information from attached devices to perform automatic frequency identification of manually tuned frequencies. Hundreds of nearby frequencies/IDs are automatically and constantly transferred to the GTR 200 by G3X and Garmin Aera 5XX/660/7XX and GPSMAP 69X portables.
Shown below is the display of an airport frequency group. Just push in on the right knob and turn the outer knob to quickly find the departure or destination airport from the flight plan, or any nearby airport, then use the inner knob to view or tune any of the available frequencies for that airport.
Other systems which support the legacy SL40 protocol can also tune the standby frequency and send flight plan and nearby airport frequency groups over a serial link into the GTR 200 for easy use.
The GTR 200 has a front accessible micro SD card reader and free software updates can be downloaded from our website and installed by the user.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Steve