I have a 718, but it is a little strange how it addresses memories, hard 
for me to gell if i'm in memory mode.  If you get one, get the qsyer, 
makes things much nicer.  It is a very nice radio for the money, but 
they don't intigrate the voice as well as Kenwood does.  On mine, I had 
to turn the voice all the way up and even then sometimes had to turn rf 
gain down to ququiet the back ground noise.  The volume control for the 
voice is hard to find and a very very small pot on the main board.  All 
that said though, the 718 is a good radio as far as it goes, but if you 
could get a Kenwood with built in tuner, I'd go that way, better speech 
intigration.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Danny Dyer wrote:

> I just checked with Universal Radio, 1-800-4313939, and although they
> had none of this model in stock in their used department,
> _________they're featuring a new IC-718, normally priced at $690, but
> with a $70 cupon which brings it to $620.  Use the UT-102 speech chip
> which runs between fifty and seventy dollars new or used, and you've
> got one of the finest new radios/IMHO, for the money that's out there.
> Although the earliest models were shipped without the DSP/UT106, the
> later models come with the DSP as standard equipment.  (Sorry, but I
> forgot to ask about whether it was in this unit/they probably have
> more than one, and I imagine the cupon is pretty much market wide.
> Anyway, It has a keypad on the faront, a front firing speaker, is
> pretty simple to operate, having a few menus to set, but most if not
> all, are "set and forget"  It _Doesn't have a tuner, and or a power
> supply, but for the money, a hundred or less watt radio, with voice
> access, that's in production, I'm not sure you'll beat it in the price
> range!!!  I've had and used one, and liked it a lot.  I thought they
> were selling for a lot more than that price new, but aren't, according
> to that price. I'm surprised none of you mentioned the 718.  HTH,
> Danny
>
> On 3/26/14, Howard Kaufman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> For that money, I'd stay away from out of production models, since the
>> availability of replacement parts will come sooner than models in
>> production.
>> With that said, you should be able to find a ts570 for maybe $600 or so.
>> It is out of production.
>> I have used the 480, and like it a lot.  The cW filter really improves the
>> radio if you will be using that mode.
>> The 100 watt model has an internal tuner that will tune anything under a 6/1
>>
>> SWR.
>> Some of the 480's are reported to have less PEP SSB output than you might
>> want.  They are very conservative on their audio adjustments.
>> If you are buying it from a store, have them check that out.
>> I can whistle mine up to full power, but talking in to it, I get less output
>>
>> than I do on the kx-3 or the omni D.
>>
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