Speaking of which, I think I mentioned I finally got an answer from Ken 
More, not to be confused with Yamaha,  and by a ham, no less, who knew what 
he was talking about concerning repairing the display of the older TMV7A 
dual bander.  $75 an hour bench time, $162.50 for parts, plus shipping 
coming and going.  So I figure, for a $400 dual band radio, that's what I 
paid for it new anyhow just before they stopped making it, $250 to get it 
repaired is pretty expensive for a common program most V7A radios have.  I 
have a friend with the computer link cable and two working displays.  He is 
either bringing his display over to program up all my channels I want to use 
or he will take the radio and plug it into his computer and program it that 
way.  I never thought of programming it via computer before but that's a way 
around the 250 dollar repair bill since a blind guy doesn't need the display 
in the first place.  I mean, not for 250 dollars to be repaired for 
something you won't be using.

Phil.
K0NX