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