I don't believe they do I'm sorry to say. About all you can do is program 
them all the same with national weather in a key spot or a cheat sheet so 
you know what's what, something like that. They can be programmed with 
software. They're not going DStar though are they? then you're really in 
trouble.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 7:15 PM
Subject: In a state of disbelief here


> Hi, all
>
> Recently, in my region of west-central lower Michigan, the power that be
> obtained an equipment grant to purchase all new equipment for our county
> EOC's.  Sounds great, right???
>
> Well, for one thing, none of us as EC's were consulted on the rig and 
> other
> equipment choices, so we ended up with rigs with which none of us were
> familiar.
>
> But, here's the real kicker:
>
> Two of the rigs are the Icom IC2820 VHF/UHF dual-band radio, and the Icom
> IC2200 2-meter radio.  Upon checking in the AES catalog, and calling AES 
> for
> confirmation, it seems that these radios do not have a voice synthesizer
> chip option.  If this is true, of course, the rigs will be of limited use 
> to
> me as EC in the Emergency Operations Center, unless I have sighted
> assistance with me at all times.
>
> Can someone verify for me that these rigs actually do not have a voice 
> chip
> option??
>
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>