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Re: ic290
From:
Louis Kim Kline <[log in to unmask]>
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Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:47:54 -0400
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Hi Ron.

Sorry to say that I think the IC-290 is going to be a rough one for
you.  It had only 5 memories, which were not backed up with a lithium
battery, and the radio really pre-dates the widespread use of speech
synthesizer technology.  There were two versions of this radio that were made:

the IC-290A which was a 10 watt radio with a red LED display, and

The IC-290H which was a 25 watt radio with a green fluorescent display.

I used this radio while I was still a pretty good partially sighted
user.  I actually owned two of these radios--both IC-290A's and the red
display was actually one of the better red displays--infinitely easier to
read than the Kenwood TR-9000 display.

As I recall, the memories only stored frequency information, but not mode.

In it's day it was a pretty good radio, but it would be very very difficult
to adapt for a totally blind user.

73, de Lou K2LKK

At 07:45 PM 4/16/02 -0400, you wrote:
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>has anyone owned an IC290 multi mode rig? I just acquired one for free =
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>Also, does anyone know where I might find a manual in accessible format, =
>I didn't get one with the rig. Finally, did Icom offer an optional =
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>73
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>Ron
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Louis (Kim) Kline, A.R.S.  K2LKK
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