The reason is because there are so many buttons on the front of the 
radio.  I have to be careful or I get off a row and wind up punching the 
wrong button.  This little box sets on top of the rig and looks just 
like a touch tone phone keypad.  I can enter frequencies and or memories 
much quicker with n worries about hitting something I don't want to.  I 
love it, just like I did my stone mountain box when I had the 440. 
Different strokes and all that I suppose.
73
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr
open Node 3148
Las Vegas


On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, John 
Miller wrote:

> but why in the world would you want it with all the buttons on the front of
> the radio anyway? No one has ever given me a straight answer on that.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:18 PM
> Subject: Re: qsyer
>
>
>> It's a great lil box, works on many many many radios, and John's a first
>> class, straight up, guy. dd
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:29 PM
>> Subject: qsyer
>>
>>
>>> I just got mine this morning for my icom 718.  This is really cool,
>>> reminds me of the old stone mountain box I had for my 440.  I'm very
>>> pleased with this little box and I appreciate John's discount for blind
>>> folks.
>>> 73
>>> Butch Bussen
>>> wa0vjr
>>> open Node 3148
>>> Las Vegas
>
>