The Icom ICV82 worksrather well for blind people, I know because I have one
and use it, it's relatively simular to the 202 as far as programming if you
don't get the d-star board for it.
73,
Chris, w8cjs
Web site,
www.w8cjs.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: easy ht to use
> Hi, I was going to suggest the Kenwood, and it is a nice radio, but it
> still is and was a lot of money, and of course Radio Shack no longer makes
> HTs, so if it worked fine before the battery became toast I would suggest
> getting a new battery pack fo it.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Tracy Son wrote:
>
>> Hello Listers.
>> My old radioshack ht202 battery pack went south and will not charge any
>> more
>> so in the garbage the battery went.
>> The radio is so old I hate to get another pack for it and then have the
>> radio stop working 4 months later.
>> What is a good easy 2 meater or dool bander radio that is user friendly.
>> I thought about the kenwood tryband ht but it's to much money to pay for
>> an
>> ht.
>> Thank you.
>> Tracy Son.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 20:31
>> Subject: Re: ic7000
>>
>>
>> > I'm coming to think I'm very lucky. I'm in a residential area and no
>> > one's
>> > ever home and I have berry little noise around here. It is more now
>> > than
>> > it
>> > used to be but it's really pretty quiet around here. Not like on
>> > vacation,
>> > but nothing will ever be like that again for me I'm sure. It was a hole
>> > street of summer places with a few year round places way down, my radio
>> > was
>> > so quiet there you'd think the RF gain was way down or something I
>> > mean,
>> > the
>> > lightest hiss was about it but when there was a station in there, I
>> > could
>> > really pull them out easy. Not like that here, but from talking to
>> > people,
>> > I
>> > am real lucky and I think most of that is the fact no one's ever around
>> > out
>> > here. I suppose I'd better enjoy it while it lasts.
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 8:47 PM
>> > Subject: Re: ic7000
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi.
>> >>
>> >> I'm getting so many local noise sources around here that it doesn't
>> >> really
>> >> matter what I put on HF--I can't hear anything anyway. It seems like
>> >> I
>> >> am
>> >> getting a lot of digital crud from home consumer devices in neighbor's
>> >> houses. I sat up last night with the Sony ICF2010 and the HF
>> >> listening
>> >> was
>> >> pretty bad.
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately, the group I used to go out with for Field Day has
>> >> folded
>> >> up,
>> >> so I don't really have much of a reason to maintain a "go" pack. II'm
>> >> hashing over whether or not I want to keep the Icom 706 Mk IIg station
>> >> or
>> >> whether it is time to cash it in.
>> >>
>> >> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>> >>
>>
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