Strangely enough, with all the rigs now that have voice chips or board,
seems like only the kenwoods will read the menu. This is the one and only
thing i don't like about my omni six haven't seen any other company that has
talking menus. Since kenwood has done it in fairly affordable rig of the
TS570DG, the have prooved that it can be done without charging an arm and a
leg so other manufacturers can't say it is totally money problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility of the IC-706


> Hi Wayne,
>
> I encouraged him to get the speech synth, but I was afraid that might be
> the case with it not saying the menus.  Icom has always been a bit skimpy
> about what they make the synthesizer read.  Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Steve
>
> On Friday 9/12/03 16:06 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >          Hi,
> >     Wayne K9DI es LD Patriot here.  I have read this thread so far and
> >having owned an IC 706MkII I would reccomend that your friend NOT buy it
> >unless it has the speech board which will read out freq and mode...but it
> >won't read anything in menus...a QSY'er would be invaluable too...
> >     I traded mine because I got fed up with all the darn menus...
> >73
> >de
> >Wayne K9DI
>