It isn't that complicated at all.  No more complicated than older 
kenwood radios.  It speaks even more than the 480.  You can read alc and 
so forth.  The buttons  mostly turn things on and off, say the noise 
blanker.  If you hold in that same button, it lets you adjust its 
setting.  Truse me, the rig is not bad at all to learn.  Not nearly as 
complicated as my 990 which if recall has 105 buttons and knobs on the 
front pannel.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Dr. Ronald E. Milliman wrote:

> I would love to have a TS-590, but I've read the manual, and it sounds
> soooooooo complicated. If you press a button it does one thing; press it
> again, and it does the opposite, and if you press and hold it for 2 seconds,
> it does something entirely differently. Then, what is this USB data and LSB
> data stuff? I've been inactive for a few years, and I feel like I'm in a
> totally different world of ham radio. Do you people really fully understand
> and use all of the buttons, features and functions on rigs like the TS-590
> and the TM-V71A?
>
> Ron, K8HSY
>
>