Good morning Dave, John and others who have kindly responded to my inquiry
about accessible, multi-band handhelds. I found the info most helpful. From
what I have heard here and elsewhere, the Kenwood TH-F6A seems a good bet,
despite there being no audible read-out of any kind. Dave, you have said
this unit to be very accessible. Without read-outs of any kind, how does one
go about setting things like frequency, offset, ct and ctcss tones etc.?
Obviously, one can from what you say. While I will look at,
ICanWorkThisThing, your personal comments, and those of anyone else who
would care to take the time to be descriptive, would be very much
appreciated. I am about to order a unit, cancelling my order for the latest
Yaesu product.

Thanks much.

Jerry, v e 3 q s o

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Marthouse" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Accessible handhelds


> Hello Jerry,
>
> There are no handhelds with speech boards in existence.  There are two
> handhelds that are extremely accessible despite the lack of speech boards.
> The first is the Kenwood TH-F6A.  This is a tri-band radio featuring
> 144/222/440MHZ with general coverage receive from 150KHZ through 1.3GHZ in
> fm, wfm, am, ssb, and cw.  The second is the IC-T90 from Icom.  This
> portable works on 50/144/440MHZ with general coverage receive.  Icom makes
a
> CW frequency readout for the T90.  This rig is quite accessible as well.
I
> have been a happy TH-F6A owner since October of 2001.  I know that there
are
> other F6A owners on this list as well as people who own the T90 so you can
> get lots of opinions on these two rigs.  You can get lots of information
> about the radios mentioned above at the I can work this thing webpage at
the
> following url:
> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
> I hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Dave Marthouse N2AAM
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Neufeld" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:02 AM
> Subject: Accessible handhelds