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 > > Sent with AquaMail for Android > http://www.aqua-mail.com > >