I am getting to old to buy any more radioes that you have to go to night
school to learn how to operate.  Give me the HT37 any day.  In fact, if you
have one, I'll give you 25 bucks for it if you pay the shipping to Denver,
grin.  Toss in the HQ180X and I might even up it to 50 dollars but you still
have to pay the shipping.  It took me three months to learn how to program
my Kenwood V7A and then I went for several months without the need to change
anything until our repeater club droped a 100 Hz sub tone on the input and I
had to get out the manual and figure everything out all over again.  My old
Drake TR22 I first got for 2 meters is starting to sound pretty simple
compared to all this stuff you guys are doing now.  When I had my FT757GX
with the software up and running, I must admit, all them memory channels,
dual V F Oes, automatic antenna tuning, and all those extra features were
pretty cool.  No more labeling crystals in Braille either.

Phil.
K0NX

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