unless you intend actually going out with the radio, I would recommend
something like the Kenwood 707, at the moment I am using mine on a mobile
aerial on a flat roof, and can still get very reasonable results with it,
on both VHF and UHF.

Simon


  At 05:00 AM 1/7/05, you wrote:
>Can you recommend an accessible transceiver that picks up VHF/UHF
>frequencies.  It would have to be one that can be programmed without vision.
>Would you recommend a mobile or a portable unit?  I live in a 1-bedroom
>apartment so the antenna is also a consideration.  Thanks.
>
>Eric
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Patrick Byrne
>Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:52 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: accessible VHF equipment
>
>
>Hello Eric,
>Connecting a power supply should not cause any real problems.  If you can
>once get sighted assistance to show you the positive wire, and help you
>determine the positive connection to the power supply, mark the positive
>lead with a piece of electrical tape or a small wire tie and you can always
>find it again.  The transceiver end of the power cable is terminated in
>some kind of polarized plug, so that end won't cause a problem.  I have
>seldom, if ever, had to disconect and reconnect the power supply end of my
>power cables.
>Help this helps.
>Pat, K9JAU  At 08:33 PM 1/6/2005 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi all, I am a new member on this list and have a question about VHF
> >equipment.  My name is Eric Patterson and my call is kb7vfr.  I have been
>an
> >amateur radio operator since 1993.
> >         Currently, I have an old FT-470 portable radio, whose battery
> > does not
> >maintain a charge anymore.  I am looking at getting a new VHF/UHF radio.
> >Here are the options I am considering:
> >1.  getting a portable such as the Icom IC-t90 or Kenwood TH-f6a.
> >2.  getting a mobile unit like the Kenwood Tm-g707.  The advantage to going
> >this route is that it might allow me to install a voice synthesizer for
> >checking the frequency.  However, because I have no useable vision, I would
> >have trouble hooking up the power supply.  Please send recommendations on
> >accessible mobile or portable VHF radios and instructions for hooking up
> >power supplies.  Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Eric Patterson