Hi, I don't know if anyone's tried the Kenwood TM-271 or not, I wasn't going 
to because of it not having much control on the front panel and a lot of 
menu driven features but when my mobile showed signs of starting to give up 
on me slightly, I looked at a friend's TM-271 and played with it some and 
got mine in today. I programmed the hole thing myself, once you get help 
programming a key to be enter though I did it myself so anyone wants to try 
it feel free, I used the d button on the mic since it didn't make sense to 
do what it did by default and the a b and C buttons did make sense, and once 
I did that, if you don't mind counting clicks and listening to beeps, the 
radio's simple to program and set up. I didn't even need a button 
description so I'll make one up and send it to icanworkthisthing.com  but if 
anyone's looking for a 2 meter radio only and not sure what to get, get it 
and feel free to ask me anything if I can help I will. It will be my mobile 
but now is in the house so I can make sure it's going to work very well for 
me as I normally do and I really like it. I can't believe the receive sound 
out of that small speaker, sounds like a Motorola commercial radio, the mic 
feels like one, and the hole radio is smaller than anything I've seen, when 
I get the credit cards down a little I might buy another one for backup for 
here if I see them on sale or something. I'm very impressed!