Hi Anthony.
In all fairness, I don't think most sighted people have any clue about what
things constitute accessibility barriers. In reality, if you adapt one
aspect of a radio, most sighted people will think that the radio is
adapted, and there is no problem. It wouldn't surprise me if even the
engineers at Icom think so.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 12:56 PM 2/19/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Butch;
>
>Let me tell you, none of these companies are really interested in what the
>products do or how they work.
>
>When the ICOM 706 came out, even before the after-market touchtone pad came
>out, I spoke with one of the salesmen at HRO.
>
>He told me I would have no problems using the radio because it has
>provisions for a speech synthesizer.
>
>I mean it was obvious that all the bum wanted to do was sell a radio.
>
>Most of these people, with very few exceptions, are taught to sell this way.
>
>The bottom line is that you need to do your homework because, it just comes
>down to who sells the most.
>
>73 De Anthony W2AJV
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>Subject: Re: radio differences
>
>
> > Hi Butch.
> >
> > My recent experience with AES is that you need to know your stuff and know
> > exactly what you are looking for, because they are not that well versed on
> > what does what, and sometimes not even on what accessories go with a
> > particular radio.
> >
> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
> >
> > At 04:45 PM 2/18/2005 -0800, you wrote:
> >>I'll probably keep the tmv-7a, but I'm more than a little disappointed in
> >>a e s here in Vegas. When I was looking at radios, I asked the sales
> >>people repeatedly what the differences were between this one which was
> >>being discontinued and the tmv-708a. They repeatedly told me only the
> >>display. Today I find ethere is a great deal of difference in receive
> >>coverage. 708 covers 118 to 1.2 gig and 7v covers 118 to 174 and 320 370
> >>or something like that. I called a e s and they said if it looked like
> >>new they would take it back for a 15% restocking otherwise all they would
> >>allow for this radio, 2 weeks old, $150.00 In retrospect I should have
> >>made them dig out the manuals, but I assumed they knew their products.
> >>I'd probably have paid the difference at the time for the extra receive
> >>for the mobile. Live and learn!!!
> >>73s
> >>Butch Bussen
> >>wa0vjr
> >
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