I should say that the old radio shack 242 was very accessible. Direct entry
was a breeze. As long as you don't mind not being able to program the pl
tones for your favourite frequencies and sometimes when you ask someone to
help you put them in, they don't always hold in memory so you have to
re-enter them all over again so's the same thing occurs and you decide you
don't need to use those frequencies after all.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: narrowed down my choices


both radios don't have voice read outs so you can't tell what frequency =
you're on that way but the menus are good because you can count clicks =
off the beep and stuff at least with the 271, I have one in the mobile =
and it's a good accessible little radio if you can count clicks on the =
tuning dial. The only ones that have voice are the duel banders and the =
HF radios, the 2 meter only radios and hand helds don't have that =
feature yet.
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Matt V=20
  To: [log in to unmask]
  Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:47 AM
  Subject: narrowed down my choices


  hello,
  I have two choices of kenwood radio i would be getting or would like =
to=20
  get, but i went to the kenwood website and couldnt find docs on either =
so=20
  I would like to know, for each radio below, are they accessible,
  is it a count the click to set frequency, hoping that your on what you =

  want, or is it output in voice and/or can you enter the frequency on =
the=20
  keypad/some other way to set things.. Ok, the two choices i have in =
mind=20
  are: th-k2at and tm-271a
  thanks
  matt