William:

I don't know about the other rigs you mention, but you can monitor your 
audio signal on the TS480 SAT.

The manual gives you some good instructions as to how to do that.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Sallander" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 6:37 PM
Subject: question on kenwoods


>I am interested in a couple of the new kenwoods, the TS-2000, TS2000x  or
> the TS-580SAT.
> I realize there has been lots of posts about those rigs but my question 
> is:
> Is there a way to monitor your transmit audio through headphones for
> equalization purposes?  If not, is there any way to do that at all? If 
> none
> of those rigs will allow me to do any thing like that will any of the Icom
> flavors let me do that?
>
>