well, it's 160 through 70CM, well made and popular.
no speech synth, but most of the settings can be set and forgotten.
you can run it with ham radio deluxe and obtain frequency, S meter and mode 
info via the HRD built in voice synth.
100W out on HF, 50W out on VHF and 20W out on UHF.
At it's retail price point, you won't be able to trade straight across for a 
kenwood TS 590S.
But, you could potentially trade it plus the balance and get what is fast 
becoming seen as the next best HF radio out there.

I tell you, if you keep winning radios at ham fests like this, you won't 
have to buy another rig for a long long time lol.
what's the secret? I never win, except once, when I won a dual band quarter 
wave MFJ magnet mount antenna.
I always see the guys who already have every single toy times two winning 
the nice radios and stuff at these ham fests.  Must be your charm and 
corisma or something hi.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 4:42 PM
Subject: ft-897d


> Wondering what anyone can tell me about this radio.  Does it have a voice
> synthesizer or voice as an option?  I just got a call and I won this radio
> at Kingman ham fest.
> 73
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
> open Node 3148
> Las Vegas