Well, for the TH-F6A, you can directly enter frequency from the front panel,
far as PL Tones, CTCSS and all, the lowest tone selection beeps, of you hear
the beep and count up to the tone you want, after a while you learn and get
used to from memory how many clicks for the most common ones, and also all
the functions have a lower beep for the default setting, like for power
settings, the lower beep is high power, if you're turning PL tones on, or
CTCSS, DCS, the low beep is off, going through memory channels, on memory
0, it beeps so you know when you're there, it's very easy to use. I use that
radio a lot, it's just a good feel, I can do anything with it, if something
was ever to happen to it I'd buy a new one for sure. In fact, if I hear
about it being discontinued some day, it will happen some time, when that
day comes, I'll buy another one for a spare just in case.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Neufeld" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: Accessible handhelds
> 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
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> ----- 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
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> ----- 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
>
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