Hi Richard;

You can really get away without the filters.

First of all, the filters have to be soldered in.

Could you believe it in this day an age?

When I had mine I didn't find I needed the filters.

My main complaint with  the radio is that the audio output from the 
transmitter does not have that Kenwood footprint.

Even with the software, I wasn't able to open the audio out to 3.0

As I said in an earlier post, I'm going to wait and see what Kenwood comes 
out with next.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:57 AM
Subject: ts480


> Hi Tom and list;
> I believe wires four and five are reversed for the ts480.  I have heard rf
> complaints concerning the mc60 and wonder what else works well.
> As for the 480, I have generally purchased new radios and had the seller
> install voice board and filters.  Lazy I admit it.  I have seen a few 
> ts480s
> used and wonder how much of a pain filter and speech installation is? 
> Most
> used ones are just the radios no filters and no speech.
> Richard
>