I think best bang for the buck these days and that includes 
accessibility is the 590.  Many of us run one and like the rig a lot.  I 
have a 990 so don'[t use my 590 much these days, but it is a great 
radio.  Tentech use to build a good radio and had fantastic service, but 
no more.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Sun, 22 Nov 2015, Michael Ryan wrote:

> I worked a TT Eagle the other night and it sounded very nice. Except for
> the uncertainty of TT and Alpha, I'd consider 1 as a backup/FD/Mobile.
> There's no reason why a laptop can't be connected for basic S-9/freq and
> mode announcement. If your careful, you can navigate the duel functions of
> the buttons. Not sure if I'd say Elecraft all the way considering a nicely
> equipped K-3S costs about 4Gs canadian and the KX-3 well equipped is
> probably over 3.
> As for the kenwoods, hats off for accessibility but maybe smart phone app
> developers need to get off their collective butts and start writing for
> these rigs. Soon or later, every new transceiver will have a touch screen
> and us blind folks will be running our 590s etc to the ground.
> Some folks laugh at my FT-102 but its a pretty simple rig to maintain,
> there are locals that have a clew about digging into tubes etc but they
> wouldn't tackle an FT-2000 or other high end class rig of that sort because
> of its components and they'd have to send it off to Yaesu. Of course I send
> my 102 to NC4L in FLA, well my radio only went once, but its the same
> thing. LOL
> On a final note, I spoke to Mikail at microbit in Sweden and I'm going to
> be given an IP to test the android apps and see how they work.
>
> 73:
> Mike DE VO1AX
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