Hi Tom.

John already told you about holding in the Lock button to read the
frequency.  That's not my favorite feature of the radio as I seem to have a
nasty tendency to inadvertently lock my radio.

Anyway, they can get a keypad for the radio by purchasing the Millenium
QSYer, which makes keying frequencies, and addressing memories much
easier.  The cost is about $95.00.  I do have to echo John's comments about
the 9 volt batteries, though.  Although Mr. Hansen claims that the current
draw is so low that it doesn't need an on/off switch, I beg to differ with
him.  If there were room to work in there easily, I'd modify that sucker to
have an on/off switch.

73, de Lou K2LKK

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At 11:52 AM 8/10/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, all.
>
>As EC/RO for my County here in Michigan, I'm in charge of setting
>up a completely functional ham station at our County's Emergency
>Operations Center.  One of the radios we have ordered for this
>set-up is an Icom 706 Mark II. G.
>
>In setting up this radio yesterday, I came up with two rather
>basic questions, for which there must be obvious answers:
>
>1.  How do you get an audible frequency read-out on the radio
>with the UT102 speech chip?  The chip reads out mode info, but
>not frequency or S meter reading.  What button do we push, and
>where is it on the radio?
>
>2.  What's the best way to enter frequencies into the 706 Mark
>II. G. memories?  Since you can't do it via a key-pad or the
>microphone, we seem limited to dialing in the frequency itself,
>and then setting the parameters before writing things into a
>memory channel.  It just seems like there has to be an easier way
>to do this.
>
>I'm going to check "icanworkthisthing.com" and the Handiham web
>site for a users manual, and maybe a quick reference card, but
>thought I'd ask these basic questions first, since someone on
>this list probably knows the answers right off the bat.
>
>Thanks, and best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI

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