hi,
can you give me the basics on how to program this radio?  I have just
purchased it a week or so ago and haven't figured anything out about it yet.
Roy
At 09:40 PM 4/2/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Harvey wrote:
>    >I also agree that it should be programmable with the radio and
>    >that it should be more accessible.  After all, what if you're out
>    >of town and not near a computer?
>THat's what I like about my Kenwood thg-71a.  I've made a couple
>business trips out of town and I've been able to program it on the
>fly.  WHen in an unfamiliar function I've had to have my xyl look at
>the display for me, but otherwise no problems.
>It covers 2m and 70cm with out of band rx on both vhf and uhf.  It has
>200 memory channels plus a call channel and I've yet to fill them all
>and am set up with just about everything ham for about 200 miles any
>direction I might go.  Also frequent cities I visit have their public
>service freqs loaded into it as well as some freqs near home such as
>police fire and marine vhf.
>
>If this radio dies prematurely I"m really considering commercial
>handhelds but the need for a modern windows box and no on the fly
>programming is the only show stopper for me.  If MOtorolla and others
>developed Linux software to program these boxes I might be more
>inclined to go that direction, but I hate meeses to pieces and I"m not
>real fond of WIndows either.
>
>
>
>Richard Webb
>
>Electric Spider Productions
>
>If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage.  But
>this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is
>somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.