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it's an Icom DStar radio.
Just like the other DStar radios, accessibility is more or less non-existent
relative to what we have come to expect from other manufacturers. There is
no voice synth. The menus all wrap, and are multi-layered. each button has
multiple functions and there are no high/low beep tones to indicate the
function state.
The DStar portion is highly visual to set up initially, though if you do
have sighted assistance, you could set up the DStar stuff and operate
without difficulty...the last several ICom mobile type radios have gone away
from any sort of voice guide or speech options at all for some reason. Not
to mention other less obvious accessibility features like tone sequences and
pitch changes etc.
Kenwood has done the opposite, and I suspect yaesu has even begun to think
about adding speech to their mobiles and HF radios...
I got to play with a ts590 the other day, and wow, what an accessible radio
even without a speech chip in it like this one.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "Christoph Bungard (DF9WM)" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 12:28 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Accessibility of Icom ID-E880
> Hi,
>
> is there anyone on this list who has used an Icom ID-E880 transceiver
> before
> and could give me a report on the rig's accessibility, please? Thanks in
> advance and 73.
>
> Christoph,
>
> DF9WM
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