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
>