Can't be any worse than the Icom 706, and if you keep the power down to just
enough to reliably get the communication through, I can run my 706 on a car
jump pack pretty much all day. You're not going to do any better than that.
Besides that, if it's in an EOC, and that EOC doesn't have a generator, it
should never even be considered for an EOC.
----- Original Message -----
From: "mike" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: ham radio used in emergencies revisited
> Ts2000 is a good rig and very blind friendly but also quite a power box in
> emergency you may need to operate off batteries which could be a little
> difficult.
>
> mike
> amature call M0DMD
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan
> Sent: 25 July 2007 03:53
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ham radio used in emergencies revisited
>
> The TS-2000, like most recent Kenwood rigs, will read menu numbers,
> frequency, and (I think) S-meter reading. Also has an autotuner, and
> the mode is output in a one-letter morse abbreviation (c for cw, u for
> usb, l for lsb, etc.)
>
> Personally, I wouldn't use the black box computer control only
> version for an EOC. Any version can be computer controlled, but
> relying on this exclusively sounds like one more thing to potentially
> go wrong, and you want to minimize these as much as possible in an
> emergency communications thingy.
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
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