I'll give you that their software is probably more accessible, but, for my 
money, that's not accessibility.
I guess I'm getting old and cranky, but, if I'm putting out big dollars for 
a device, any device, I want to be able to use that device as would any 
other person.

At least, with the 590, for a modest fee, I have nearly full access to the 
rig in whatever siguation I need to use it in.

I've given up on tentec, because they could at least have added some beeps, 
cw output, and used a detented control at little or no extra cost.
I have suggest these very ideas to them multiple times with no response.

73

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Gormley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 3:49 PM
Subject: tentec not like Yaesu


> Gary I don't think Tentec is nearly as bad as Yaesu since the Icom 
> software
> is a lot more accessible than the Yaesu software is.  There is a problem 
> in
> that you have to have a computer to drive the rig which poses some 
> problems
> when you're out in the field since that's not always  available.  I'm glad
> you have the 590 but it'll be quite sometime before I can afford to buy 
> some
> more toys. 73- pat kk3f