No menu reading on icoms, usually just frequency mode and S meter, I believe
that's all the same right now but I do know no icoms read the menus.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Martin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: Icom ic-746 and ic-2120 speech modules?


Hi All,

How much will the Icoms speech module tell you?  Does it make the menus
accessible?

carl


At 11:49 PM 3/4/2005, you wrote:
>Most your icoms you can add voice modules to them so it will work for you.
>I
>know there's this one store: radio world here in Toronto that will do the
>modification to most of their icom and Yazoo merchandise. I know it's in
>Canada but here is the number: it won't hurt to call them and I suppose you
>can ship your rig to them if the voice synthesizer thing is necessary:
>416-667-1000. Hope that helps.
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>Subject: Icom ic-746 and ic-2120 speech modules?
>
>
> > HI folks,
> >
> > Curious if there is a speech board for the Icom 746.  I work at a
> > local hospital station quite a bit.  Tired of sniffing the display on
> > the hf rig.  Since I've no antennas at home where I live currently I'm
> > over there quite a bit to run traffic nets and my usual ncs duties on
> > the maritime mobile service net.  I'm basically their ham volunteer
> > coordinator for disaster preparedness.
> >
> > THe 2120 is a nice dual band vhf/uhf (2 meters and 440) rig, dual
> > receive.  Curious if there's speech for it as well.
> >
> > Anybody familiar with these radios?
> >
> > ON similar subject does anybody know of ascii manuals for either of
> > these available anywehre?
> >
> > 73 de nf5b
> >
> >
> >
> > Richard Webb
> >
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> >