Let me tell all of you something.

I the ICOM radios were as user friendly as the KENWOOD radios, my equipment
would only consist of ICOM equipment.

I just think that the ICOM radios are sturdier and they just perform much
better.


The KENWOOD radios are very good for what they are and what they do but that
is just not enough.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: TS-480 vs. IC-746 Pro


> Icom radios speech chips don't speak the menus, but I find with my 706 I
> use
> for portable and mobile use that if you take the time to learn it, there
> are
> ways to learn the radios still and they're not that bad to manage. I don't
> know about the 746 pro but I know blind hams with the 746 who love them
> and
> the 756, all flavors that love them and manage to work them just fine.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:14 PM
> Subject: TS-480 vs. IC-746 Pro
>
>
> I know that accessible HF radios  is a permathread here on the
> Blind-Hams list.  From looking at specs, it appears to me that the
> Icom IC746-Pro would be likely to be a better CW receiver, with more
> options for adjustment of IF bandwidth, etc.  Have any of you
> compared it against a 480, either for receive or for ease of
> operation or control panel clutter?  I understand that the 746 Pro
> can take a speech board and speaks little more than frequency and
> S-meter readings.  Have you 480 users ever thought that your
> transceiver was too verbose?  I'm frustrated because my local HRO
> store is over 30 miles from here, and they said they never stock
> their demo radios with accessory filters, voice boards, etc.
>
> I still don't know when I will actually buy something new, but it
> might be this year.  My R4C really works, but I like general coverage
> SW listening, and the FS-4 frequency synthesizer is starting to
> become very flaky again.
>
>
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