OK,  well,  I'll keep that in mind,  he got rid of it,  I've never had luck
with the 2 alinco radios I've had anyway nor have a lot of my friends so I
don't think I'll ever get one, but never know I do get cheap ones to use in
the summer in the garage, by the pool and stuff like that where it might get
damaged and I don't want to lose an expensive radio.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Kysor" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Alinco Dj-196T?


> 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
> > >
>