Colin,
"FT" isn't usually a Kenwood prefix. It's usually Yaesu.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 20:43
Subject: Re: Antenna switches.
> ah, yes, it was the ft690...i new it had to be a 690 but obviously it
> wasn't
> the ts690 since it was a 6 meter portable.
> I found it pretty interesting how many all mode 2 meter rigs were at this
> fle market i went to...there had to be no less then 10 of them from all 3
> manufacturers...
> And at a flee market with only about 20 tables.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 6:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Antenna switches.
>
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Are you sure that wasn't an Icom IC502? It sound like one. Actually
>> Icom
>> made a couple of portables like that. They also had the IC505, which I
>> almost had. A friend of mine in college had the IC502.
>>
>> Yaesu also made a halfway decent portable for 6 meters which had FM, SSB,
>> and CW. That was the FT690, which was a 3 watt portable. They later
>> followed that with the FT690 MK II, which would put out power equivalent
> to
>> a mobile radio when put on a 13.8 volt source, or it would run 3 watts on
>> the optional battery pack. Yaesu also made 2 meter and 70 cm versions of
>> these radios. I had the FT790 Mk II, and I can truthfully say that it
>> was
>> the only piece of Yaesu radio equipment that I ever owned that I really
>> liked. These radios are not accessible, though, but in the 1990s when I
>> owned that radio, accessibility wasn't yet an issue for me.
>>
>> If Kenwood ever did make a 6 meter portable, I've never run across that
> one
>> in the 29 years that I've been licensed, and I like to horsetrade enough
>> that I've owned too many different radios for me to count anymore.
>>
>>
>> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>> At 04:34 PM 10/4/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>> >does anyone know what the model number of the kenwood 6 meter portable
> was?
>> >I found one at a flee market recently and didn't even know one was
>> >made....basically a medium sized radio, with 6 meters SSB, am and
> possibly
>> >FM and a telescoping antenna that came out of the top...didn't get a
> chance
>> >to see if it worked on batteries or not.
>> >thought it was the ts600 but might have miss remembered the model.
>> >73
>> >Colin, V A6BKX
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 4:24 PM
>> >Subject: Re: Antenna switches.
>> >
>> >
>> > > I don't know about the 71 series but the 75 series had speech. I
>> > > think
> the
>> >6
>> > > meter Kenwood we're thinking of was the TS-611. I saw the TS-600 for
> sale
>> > > the other day, 6 meter version of the TS700, wow!! can that thing
> bring a
>> > > price!! but it's the first one I've ever seen for sale so that's
> probably
>> > > why.
>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: "Brett Winches" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 6:21 PM
>> > > Subject: Re: Antenna switches.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > You are right but I too forget the model number. Wish I had a pair
> or
>> > > > better yet the Icom of that era. The receivers were reputedly (by
>> > > > those in my area working weak signal satellite or moonbounce)better
> on
>> > > > the Icom but I forget if the 271 471 had speech. I do think that
> they
>> > > > had a GasFet preamp option which explains the receiver difference.
> =20
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > ###
>> > > > BRETT WINCHESTER
>> > > > [log in to unmask]
>> > > > 208-639-8386
>> > > > ###
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > > From: For blind ham radio operators
>> > > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Miller
>> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:39 PM
>> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > > > Subject: Re: Antenna switches.
>> > > >
>> > > > I think there was a 6 meter version of that too but good luck
> finding
>> > > > one.
>> > > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > > From: "Dave Marthouse" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 4:18 PM
>> > > > Subject: Re: Antenna switches.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >> The 711 is a two meter all mode rig. Make sure the radio has the
>> > > > speech
>> > > >> board and the pl board. I had one and its companion the 811 for
> 432.
>> > > > The
>> > > >> radios worked very well and were real workhorses.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Dave Marthouse N2AAM
>> > > >> [log in to unmask]
>> > > >>
>> > > >>
>> > > >> ----- Original Message -----=20
>> > > >> From: "Chris Schulte" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > >> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 4:12 PM
>> > >
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>> Louis Kim Kline
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