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Re: Accessibility of the IC-706
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Steve Dresser <[log in to unmask]>
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Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:18:06 -0400
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Hi Wayne,

I encouraged him to get the speech synth, but I was afraid that might be
the case with it not saying the menus.  Icom has always been a bit skimpy
about what they make the synthesizer read.  Thanks for the feedback.

Steve

On Friday 9/12/03 16:06 [log in to unmask] wrote:
>          Hi,
>     Wayne K9DI es LD Patriot here.  I have read this thread so far and
>having owned an IC 706MkII I would reccomend that your friend NOT buy it
>unless it has the speech board which will read out freq and mode...but it
>won't read anything in menus...a QSY'er would be invaluable too...
>     I traded mine because I got fed up with all the darn menus...
>73
>de
>Wayne K9DI

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