They are still making it, not sure on the accessibility, I know a couple
people who've used them and make it work, but said speech would help.
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From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: Thanks For Help, A little more help please.


KENWOOD may still be manufacturing the TS50.

I don't think you could put speech in the TS50.

And, I'm not certain about the accessibility issues either.

73 De Anthony w2ajv
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On Sep 19, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Danny Dyer wrote:

> Hi Folks, First___ Thanks_____! for all the help re the Kenwood
> line of HF
> accessible radios.  Further question, is there anything fairly
> small in an
> Icom, that's not_____ Very Menu deep.  I'd love to find something
> comparable
> to the Kenwood ts440 in terms of "computerness," in other words,
> that's
> about as far into computer control as I want to go for this
> application, as
> it's kind of hard to run a radio from the computer while
> backpacking.  I've
> had a 706 and a Yaesu FT817, both _Way too menu deep for this
> application.
> Any suggestions from your Icom pasts?  Sorry to bug you folks, but
> you're a
> mighty fine source of good info.  Thanks again, Danny Dyer, Wb4idu,
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