perhaps.
but almost every radio I've come across as a dedicated exit or clear button 
to return you to the home or stand by screen or whatever they choose to name 
it.
Johns point about the license privallages is a valid one.  However, with the 
qsy'er keypad, you can get cw read out of the frequency...there you go, 
instant accessibility for some.  That, and you can manually enter 
frequencies, so if you think you might be outside your designated band 
edges, you can punch in the top or bottom of those edges again and start 
over...not rocket science.
Yes, you need a qsy'er keypad, but you need a speech synth with other rigs 
too so it's not an added expense and not really an additional device.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: ft-897d


> That might all be true, but this was before the days of multi mode buttons
> and screens that time out if you don't perform a function within a certain
> amount of time.  But even that might be worked around if there could be a
> button or sequence that would bring you back to the main screen, but that 
> is
> not available on most modern day electronics that I know of.  This is why
> accessibility is so important now.
> Harvey