Hi John;

What HF radios by ICOM have you found to be user friendly.

Please let me know.

Anthony

73 DE ANTHONY W2AJV
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: TS-850 Accessibility


> You can't keyboard enter the memories on any of the newer radios by
Kenwood,
> just use the speech button, it will tell you where you are. the 570 and
2000
> tell you what memory number you are on but in my opinion they talk too
much
> I wish they were like Icom, you can select what it says and doesn't say
but
> I love everything I have,  nothing will be up for sale around here for a
> while and that's unusual.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 11:45 PM
> Subject: Re: TS-850 Accessibility
>
>
> > I had an 850 years ago. had to sell it to pay bills.  I really liked the
> > rig.  Has key board entry for frequency.  Only drawback I can recall is
> > you cna't key board select the memories.  You have to use the channelor
> > memory knob.  What I did was set every tenth memory to a spcial
frequency,
> > so if I got lost, could find where I was rather quickly.
> > It has xmit audio monitor which I really liked.
> >
> > 73s
> > Butch      WA0VJR
> >
>