Steve,

You have an individual set button which serves the purpose of getting into
the menu structure or switching between a long wire or coax antenna.  There
is no doubt that if a blind guy would memorize, or write down all the
various menu choices and how they would be changed, it could be done without
sighted help.  You use the same memory up and down keys on the bottom right
panel of the radio to make changes in the menu settings.  Like I said, I'm
sure you can do all that through the software but I'm getting too old to
screw around with all that software crap now.  Plus, I had my computer tied
to my transciever for years for different functions and it was a pain in the
butt horsing around and changing everything all the time.  I like just
grabbing knobs and pushing buttons.  I hate tuning rigs and amplifiers now,
too, so that shows you how old I'm getting.  I also refuse to climb my tower
any more for fear it might bend or buckle due to wait.  My weight.  Worse, I
might experience a heart attack while up there and they would have to call a
hospital rescue helicopter to come and get me.  How embarrassing.  I hope to
live long enough to own a good 80 or 90 foot crank up tower where I just
push a button in the shack and away she goes.  Then, and only then, I will
get me a 2 element 80 meter beam.  Of course, if we happen to have one of
those huge corona mass ejection's on the Sun that we had last year that,
fortunately, was faced away from the earth, there won't be any more ham
radio once that mass reaches earth.  I mean, when 100,000 square miles of
the surface of the sun blows out into space, you best be living way under
ground because it is about to get hotter than an Arizona summer.

Phil.
K0NX