Now what I really want to know is...will this be as accessible as the TH-F6? If so, reckon I'll have to save up my pennies and get one. I can't wanna like the Icom no buttons thing. OK, too few buttons. 

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> Subject: [CS7000] Fw: Fwd: New Kenwood D-STAR Tri-Band HT Announced at Atlanta area Hamfest This Weekend
> Date: November 8, 2015 at 9:23:16 PM EST
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> Below message posted at D-STAR yahoo group announces 
> New Kenwood D-STAR Tri-Band HT Announced at Atlanta area Hamfest This Weekend 
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> Subject: [dstar_digital] Digest Number 2423
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> KENWOOD DSTAR HT TRIBANDER by "Kent Hufford" kq4kk  
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> 1a 
> KENWOOD DSTAR HT TRIBANDER  
> Sat Nov 7, 2015 4:28 pm     (PST)     . Posted by: 
> "Kent Hufford"      kq4kk  
> 
> I talked to the Kenwood rep and AA4RC at the Stone Mountain GA hamfest
> TODAY.
> 
> Also announced during the DSTAR Forum. Nothing on the internet as far as I
> know.
> 
> It is a HT, a cross between the TH6 and TH72.
> 
> It will do DSTAR, FM and APRS, has a GPS built in like the TH72.
> 
> Tri band, 2m, 440 and 220.
> 
> Kenwood should release more info around Thanksgiving. Comes out in March
> 2016.
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> That's all I know.
> 
> Kent
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> KQ4KK
> 
> Prices have dropped on ICOM DSTAR capable transceivers. 
> 
> 51A+ $360  - A GREAT buy for such a capable HT. Color, Anniversary
> Editions are much more. The + is the current one. 
> 
> 880 $400 - Price went up a little
> 
> 5100 $600 - Good buy for all the capability
> 
> 7100 $1000 - FIRST time at below 1K ($999.95) 1/3 less than when they came
> out
> 
> 9100 $2500 - Not so much a drop
> 
> FLEX 6300 w/DV3000 card $2630 Unless you want to work Satellites at 100
> watts SSB, the FLEX is a better buy. 
> 
> FLEX RADIO with their SDR software update 1.51 fully supports DSTAR with the
> use of a DV3000 USB drive plugged into a 6000 series FLEX radio. Now to do
> DSTAR on a FLEX, you just click on the mode DSTAR, just like USB, LSB, AM,
> CW, etc. Works great, the waterfall display really helps finding spots on
> DSTAR HF. WE now have two major radio manufacturers supporting DSTAR. 
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