I can think of some pretty appropriate words for that prefix too but we
won't get in to that here.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Antenna switches.
> 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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>> 10/4/2007
>>> >8:59 AM
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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>> 10/4/2007
>>> >5:03 PM
>>>
>>> Louis Kim Kline
>>> A.R.S. K2LKK
>>> Home e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>> Work e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>> Work Telephone: (585) 697-5740
>>>
>>>
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>>> 10/4/2007
>> 8:59 AM
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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