jeff, perhaps i'm being a pompus ass, but aren't you subscribed to this 
list?
or perhaps you were unsubscribed between today and 2 years ago?
I say this because there has been loads of traffic regarding the talking 
handhelds on here over the past couple years...more in the past year.
at any rate, the main one that has got everyones attention right now is the 
Wouxun dual band HT with speech output of nearly everything, except vfo or 
frequency readout.
The handheld is around $100 from most retailers.
It is the wouxun UDP-2d or something close to that..
It's actually caught on quite well all over the place...several local hams 
have one and really like it.  A couple of the techier guys have them and 
have put them through their paces with all sorts of diagnostic gear and say 
they are at least as good as, or perhaps slightly better than say a TH F6A 
or IC T90...short of having the third band that is.
check them out at
HTTP://www.wouxun.us

they are supposed to be releasing a dual band mobile radio very soon as 
well.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: Talking handheld??


>I didn't even know there were any talking handhelds.  What bands do they 
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On May 22, 2011, at 7:35 PM, colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> perhaps it's just me, but I think most of the chinese manufactured 
>> handhel=
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>> that talk, are likely produced by the same company, or subcitieries of 
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>> same head company.
>> They all seem to be vertually the same with very minor differences.
>> If this isn't the case, then I don't know how 67 different companies stay 
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>> business all producing nearly identical products lol.
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>> From: "Keith Reedy" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 2:30 PM
>> Subject: Talking handheld??
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