That surprises me, John.  Maybe it's burried deep in some obscure menu. 
That's usually the Icom approach.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 21:22
Subject: Re: question on kenwoods


>I think the low end icoms don't have that feature but pretty much all the
> kenwoods have it.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:20 PM
> Subject: Re: question on kenwoods
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>> William,
>>
>> Audio monitoring is pretty much standard on all HF transceivers, although
>> the way you access it differs from radio to radio.  On the 480, you press
>> and hold the 4 on the keypad, and when the speech says "TX Monitor", you
>> turn the monitor volume up and down with the Channel knob.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "William Sallander" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 18:37
>> Subject: question on kenwoods
>>
>>
>>>I am interested in a couple of the new kenwoods, the TS-2000, TS2000x  or
>>> the TS-580SAT.
>>> I realize there has been lots of posts about those rigs but my question
>>> is:
>>> Is there a way to monitor your transmit audio through headphones for
>>> equalization purposes?  If not, is there any way to do that at all? If
>>> none
>>> of those rigs will allow me to do any thing like that will any of the
>>> Icom
>>> flavors let me do that?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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