Lots of sighted folks buy them with speech too for
whatever reason. I've always thought of it as a
luxury.


--- "John J. Jacques" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Matt and all.  Unfortunately, Yaesu does not
> believe in accessability.
>  They only make 3 radios that offer speech, the
> first dual band mobile
> they ever brought out, the FT2700,  the FT3600,
> which there big
> multi-band multi-mode base station and the FT847
> which was a HF rig with
> 6 and 2 on it, I think.
> After they brought that one out, I thought there was
> hope for them, but
> no luck.  I heard somewhare that someone at Yaesu
> made a comment that
> most blind folks can't aford those high dollar rigs
> anyway, so why make
> them accessable, which in my opinion was pretty
> patronizing.  I have a
> couple of Yaesu radios, which were gifts, a FT101ZD
> and a FT470, but I
> will never buy a new Yaesu radio, unless they change
> there aditude!
>
> Have a good one eveyone:
> J. J.
>
>
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