yes it is but you have to know the commands.
for example, hit a and punch in a frequency leaving the last zero
off.  squelsh is pound and tuning knob, volume is star and tuning knob etc.
dan
At 04:45 AM 4/13/04, John Miller wrote:
>I had a friend who had 1 of those and said it's not accessible at all,
>alinco generally isn't, as well as being, from my experience, very poor
>quality, not to mention, personally, if you want a 2 meter only radio that
>you can do almost everything with and the couple things you can't you can
>use the computer, look at the IC-V8 it's only $114.95 brand new last I
>looked at AES though I think you'd be much happier with the Kenwood TH-F6A,
>or the Icom IC-T90A if that's going to be your only hand held.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brent Harding" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:52 PM
>Subject: Alinco Dj-196T?
>
>
> > Is this 2-meter HT fairly easy to use for someone totally blind? There's
>one
> > on ebay for $145.95, plus $10 shipping. They mention computer
> > programmability, wonder how much the cable and software are, and if it's
> > accessible? Or am I better off as far as accessibility and functionality
>to
> > spend the extra for a Kenwood thf6a? Ebay doesn't seem to have any of
>those
> > listed (I know most people don't want to part with them, as they're
>triband,
> > receive almost anything you'd want in a general receiver, and are capable
>of
> > use on packet without adapters, I assume a tnc is still necessary to
> > experiment with that though.
> > 73's
> > Kb9lwj
> >