Hi, Butch.  I have the TM-D710, which I think is the follow-on to the 
71a.  If so, any idea on how I set and enter repeater frequencies 
into the rig's memory channels and set the PL's?  Thanks in 
advance.--Matt, N1IBB.

At 01:18 PM 1/27/2015 -0800, you wrote:
>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
> >
> >