Hi Terri, Only have experience with the Icom IC-t90A, of the radios you 
mentioned.
The t90 will only do FM on six meters, so you will miss out on a whole bunch 
of activity, as much of it is SSB, CW, and AM, There is some FM, but it 
varries by area.
and there are radios which will do more modes than that, and are accessible. 
But the t90 is pretty easy to program from its' keypad, and yes changing pl 
tones is almost a piece of cake with the t90.  That radio won't talk/voice 
wise, but of course will give the frequency in Morse.Don't know about any of 
the programming software with the t90, as I've never used it.  Sorry I can't 
give you more but that's it for those radios.
The little six meter monobander by MFJ, the 9406 is a good little radio, for 
SSB, and there's a CW module that's in some of them.  It's very simple to 
operate, but you'd need an Mcount or some other frequency counting device to 
help you know exactly where you're transmitting.
Another way you might consider going, is via a six meter transverter through 
an already accessible HF rig if you have one.  But I Digress.  Any way I can 
help?  Let me know, thanks, Danny Dyer, Wb4idu.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terri Pannett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:17 PM
Subject: 6 meter radios


> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about getting onto 6 meters.  I have looked at the manuals 
> and
> quick guides for the Kenwood TS2000, the Yaesu VX7R, and the Icom ICT90A. 
> I
> have noticed the handhelds aren't very expensive, but they don't talk and
> are probably not as user-friendly as the hf/vhf/uhf rig, which is quite
> expensive.  The manual for the Yaesu was awful to read, but I have a blind
> friend who owns one and actually programmed it without a PC, so I could 
> look
> at it.  The Icom's manual was readable in some places and unreadable in
> others but the info from the I can work this thing site helped.  I haven't
> looked at the manual for the Kenwood, but the quick guide was extremely
> helpful.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1.  Can you enter pl tones in any of these rigs using the keypad?
>
> 2. Will the PC software for any work with Windows XP and WindowEyes?
>
> Thanks for any help youcan give me.
>
> Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.