Lou,
Two of the easiest radios I've ever learned are the TS480 and the TM-V71A
even though both are fairly complex in terms of the number of things they
can do and the number of menus they have. I was able to figure out most of
the controls on both radios without a cheat sheet by just pressing buttons
and listening to what the VGS-1 said. Granted, I couldn't do much with the
menus until I got the menu list from the manual, but I was still able to
figure out basic things such as which button changed power, and which button
was the function control, etc. It's true that we're pretty creative about
finding workarounds when things aren't accessible, but I love it when I
don't have to be creative in that way, and I really hate to have to give up
that easy access once I have it.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 22:29
Subject: Re: Kenwood ts-811 wanted
> 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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>>Louis Kim Kline
>>A.R.S. K2LKK
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> Louis Kim Kline
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