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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