Most Kenwood and icom radios can take a speech chip or board to read
frequency and some other settings. Works very well, very useful.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Humbert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: pl issues


> Can you tell me a little more about the speech boards?  Are you telling me
> that there are some speech synthesizers built especially for ham radios?
> If
> so, where does one get such an animal?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 6:39 PM
> Subject: Re: pl issues
>
>
>> Hi Rich.
>>
>> That is why I said what I did about the Kenwood TR-751A and the
>> TS790.  When equipped with speech boards, both of these radios will let
> you
>> read the PL Tone off with the voice synthesizer, and it makes these
>> radios
>> a snap to program.  I thought I would mention it in passing so that if
>> someone were ever to decide to get an all mode radio, they would know
>> that
>> these two radios are very accessible.
>>
>> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>> At 08:17 PM 8/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>> >I just can't resist.
>> >  I don't think pl is as much the problem as the accessibility of
>> > current
>> >radios.  Yes if you memorize a bit and count clicks you can easily set a
> pl
>> >but you wouldn't catch your friendly nondisabled ham bothering with all
> that
>> >fuss.  It would be nice if you had real menu access as well as direct
>> >readout of both incode and decode info.  I sometimes get idealistic,
> guilty
>> >as charged.
>> >Rich
>>
>> Louis Kim Kline
>> A.R.S. K2LKK
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