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Re: need to find a replacement radio
From:
Lou Kolb <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 8 Mar 2014 18:11:07 -0500
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Close, Jim. Its automatic level control. Lou  WA3MIXLou Kolb
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Stanga" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: need to find a replacement radio


> Just curious, what is ALC?
> Is it automatic limiting control for transmit?
>
> Jim
> WA5VYL
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Lou Kolb
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 5:48 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: need to find a replacement radio
>
> Alan,
>
> That's 99 per cent true.  Unfortunately, what you can not do with the K3 
> and
> Hampod is set the ALC. Not Rob's fault but Elecraft's as they haven't made
> that reading available through the serial port. Last I heard, they were
> swamped with requests for other updates and stuff for the KX3 so it might 
> be
> a while before they get to it.
> Lou Kolb
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 1:03 AM
> Subject: Re: need to find a replacement radio
>
>
>> Butch, You have one of the best rigs ever made.  Many sighted hams
>> consider
>> the 990 to be the best rig ever produced, and from the perspective of a
>> blind operator, no other radio has ever been more accessible.  Of course
>> the
>> K3, thanks to Rob Santello, is as accessible as the Kenwood 990.
>>
>>
>> Alan/KD7GC
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan R. Downing
>> Phoenix, AZ
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators 
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
>> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 8:46 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: need to find a replacement radio
>>
>> I don't find the 2000 all that hard, there are good front pannel
>> descriptions around as well.  Talk about a complicated radio, lmy 990 has
>> I think 106 knobs and buttons on the ront.  Quite a rdio though.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
>> Node 3148
>> Wallace, ks.

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