Hi.

I think a certain amount of that learning curve goes with not having the 
luxury to stare at the front panel.  I've noticed that it is distinctly 
harder for me to learn a radio, or remember how to use a radio that I 
haven't operated for a while than it used to be before my vision went and I 
could just look at the radio and generally figure things out from the 
labeling of the buttons.  To be honest, I think that has had more of an 
impact on me than my age, although I'm not that old--turned 47 in January.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 06:43 PM 6/27/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>I have got a ts-711 and you are right it is a nice radio.  What I like about
>it is that there are not to many bells and whistles on it.  Plus I am trying
>to get back in to SSB on 2 meters.  But I thought I would like to do some
>weak signal work on UFH as well.  If I had the 811 the learning curve would
>be just a little less.  Believe it this old man needs that as much as
>anything.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:21 AM
>Subject: Re: Kenwood ts-811 wanted
>
>
>Hi Bob.
>
>For what it is worth, although it will cost you an arm and a leg, both the
>voice board and the tone encoder for that radio are available from the
>PIEXX Company.  It takes the TU5 tone board.  I looked into that a couple
>of years ago when I was contemplating buying a Kenwood TS711/811 pair.  The
>guy was asking $900 for the pair, and for the age I wasn't keen on spending
>that much, especially because I suspected that he might have had the golden
>screwdriver inside of it.  I decided that I was halfway to the price of a
>Kenwood TS2000S (actually more than halfway time I bough two voice boards
>and two tone encoders), so I took the plunge and bought the TS2000S
>instead.  That is the last TS811A I've seen.
>
>I had a Kenwood TS711A briefly a number of years ago, but the transmitter
>was very messed up on it--it would only put out about 4 watts.  Nice radio,
>otherwise, but since I noticed the power level problem immediately, I sent
>it back and got my money back.
>
>73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
>At 05:10 AM 6/27/2007 -0500, you wrote:
> >I am looking for a ts-811 and I have not had any luck on eBay so I =
> >thought that I would give it a try here.  Of course the speech board =
> >would be nice has well but I can all ways get one and put in it.  For =
> >the ones that don't know and  are wondering the ts-811 is a UHF fix =
> >station all mode radio. =20
> >
> >
> >
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