Hi.

I haven't had any personal experience, but I've heard from sighted and 
blind peers alike that the FT817 is all but impossible to operate 
non-visually.  I'd stay away from that one.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 12:35 PM 11/23/2007 +0200, you wrote:
>What about the Ft817?
>
>Kallie Swanepoel
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On Behalf Of John Miller
>Sent: 23 November 2007 05:05
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: ReModern Radios and Accessibility
>
>I'm not referring to the FT-1000, I'm referring to the current line,
>ft-2000, ft-9000, for HF radios with problems. Not sure on the ft-950 other
>than I heard 2 of them and the audio alone was enough to make a few people
>turn to another radio. I have yet to hear a ft-450
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:55 PM
>Subject: Re: ReModern Radios and Accessibility
>
>
> > John,
> >
> > You comment often on Yaesu's failure rate and I wouldn't dispute your
> > experience with it.  But it doesn't mirror my own.  I've had limited
> > experience using yaesu gear but I know several hams in my region, some of
> > them blind, who not only use Yaesu gear like the ft1000 series but swear
> > by
> > it.   The only rig I'm consistently hearing complaints about is that new
> > Yaesu rig and I can't recall the model number right off the top of my
> > head.
> > I just thinnk we tend to paint with too broad a brush sometimes when it
> > comes to both accessibility and reliability.  Lou
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 7:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: ReModern Radios and Accessibility
> >
> >
> >> 1 of Yaesu's biggest problems as big if not bigger than the lack of
> >> accessibility is that about 75% of the people I know who've bought one in
> >> the last 5 or so years, had to send them back for repairs including 6
> >> FT-2000s in the last 4 months, 3 FT9000's among other HF radios and duel
> >> band mobiles, all under a year old, most under a month old. That many is
> >> a
> >> very serious issue to me. Few of the same model having the same symptoms
> >> though the bad ft-8800 or FT-8900, I'm not sure which those are, all did
> >> have the same problem but one. Their attitudes don't help things at all
> > and
> >> those are the reasons I'll probably never have another one here, nor will
> > I
> >> recommend them, but I will continue to actively campaigned against them.
> > I'd
> >> rather my TS-520 I bought to play around with before any modern yaesu, or
> >> any because I don't like to display that name if it might be seen in my
> >> station or something though my FT-51 does make a rare appearance still.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 6:46 PM
> >> Subject: Re: ReModern Radios and Accessibility
> >>
> >>
> >> > Well said Colin; many of us have had radios that were, "in a perfect
> >> > world" inaccessible as can be, but we made do.  My maybe worst ever
> >> > from an accessibility standpoint handheld was a Yaesu 727
> >> > handheld.  But it was the first truly syntehsized, dual band handheld
> >> > in town and damn it, I wanted ont!!  Eventually and overall we became
> >> > friends!!  My current Kenwood is lots easier to work but I still had
> >> > fun with my old Yaesu.
> >> > Isn't always a perfect world.
> >> > Pat, K9JAU
> >>
> >
>
>
>
>
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