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Yaesu never did care about accessibility, the 847 was a 1 off try at it and
had a lot of problems, and now they have the ft-450 which took one of my
sighted friends, with the manual almost 3 hours to figure out how to turn
the voice read out on at a special event so I could use the radio and I
still did not like the radio at all. The RIT/XIT knob on my ts-2000 is about
the size of the tuning dial on the FT-450, even the IC-706 has a bigger dial
than that. I was far from impressed. Sadly that's what a lot of the hospital
EOC's have in this area of the state, I suppose if you're not tuning around
it's OK, but I'd hate to have to sit there tuning around with it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Thurman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: accessiblity of two yaesu radios
> yaesu walked away from accessible radios when they dropped the ft 847 =
> which is why I will not own another yaesu rig. also icon and ken wood =
> rigs seem to be more reliable in my opinion
> On Dec 30, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Bob Ray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Greetings, I already know about the wonders of the kenwood products =
> like
>> the TMV-71A but I have been asked if a person can use either the =
> FT-8900R or
>> VR-7R(b)? Any thoughts on these two radios would be appreciated.
>>=20
>> 73,
>>=20
>> Bob KD0BR
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