Well, Butch and Mike,

Thank you for your comments on the TM-V7A and TM-V71A.  The display would 
make no difference to me, so long as that problem didn't affect the rest of 
the radio.

Nevertheless, you did convince me that the TM-V71A is worth the extra money. 
I put in the order this morning.

Thanks, again.



73,
Gale
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: TMV7A Display Problem


That is the way I remembered that one.  I was thinking there was another
model bbetween the 7 and 71, but don't remember it, as I recall it
didn't talk well if at all, it wasn't around long.  The 71 is one very
nice and good radio.  If it had 220, that would be cool, although no 220
here, really nothing much here except me and my own repeaters.  I think
I have a 7 I suppose I could sell to a blind person,  not sure what it
would be worth and I'd have to dig for it, still in a box I brought back
from Vegas.  I liked the 707 well, think it used the vs3, but as I
recall the pl tones did talk, not sure about that.  Only thing I had
against that radi was it was one band at a time, but again, a very good
radio.  The 71 is also very easy to open up for those interested in such
things.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:

> Butch,
>
> You are correct.
>
> Early runs of the V7A up through a serial number that I forgot long ago
> had a display that would fail.
>
> I owned one of those units for a few years. For some time, Kenwood
> would replace the control head free of charge, but they no longer do that.
>
> That problem aside, the TMV7A is very reliable, but the voice feedback
> in its menus is more like that in the TS570 or TS2000, since it uses
> the same voice chip as those radios.
>
> As I said above, the radio is very reliable. I bought mine used from
> Anthony, W2AJV, who is on this list, in either 2003, or 2004. I sold it
> to a local sighted ham after I bought my TMV71A in 2008. He still
> checks into our local nets with it every week.
>
> -- 
> Mike Duke, K5XU
>
>