Hi y’all,

For the past few weeks, I have had the Wouxun KG-UV920P
on loan from buytwowayradios.com in order to
write an eyes-free guide for it. 

The good news is that it’s mostly pretty accessible.

The bad news is that there are a couple gotchas.

First, there’s not as much voice guidance as on the handhelds.

Second, it is difficult to determine offset direction,
though not impossible. There is a kludgy workaround,
but it’s not as easy as it could be.

Finally, there is no reliable way to determine the power setting. 
The best you can do is a VFO reset, which sets everything to high power.
Then work from there if you forget where you last had power set.

I guess if there was a thing to not be able to set,
power is probably the least bad. 

However, I’m really interested in the TYT TH-9800 now.

It’s a quad band, 10/6/2/440, seems to be a mostly clone
of the Yaesu FT-8900. 

It doesn’t talk, but from the couple videos I saw,
it seems to have enough strategically placed beep tones
and tones at different pitches that it should be usable. 

I downloaded the Windows software for it, and wonder of wonders,
it looks like it’s all accessible, at least with System Access.
I haven’t tried it with NVDA or Window-Eyes yet. 

At $299 from radio-mart.net or the usual 409shop.com suspects,
it would be a hard deal to beat. 

I just have to get my hands on one to be certain it would be usable.

No, it doesn’t talk, but it’s also a lot cheaper than the Kenwood TM-V71.

Buddy, KB5ELV