meaning that, as danny mentioned, yaesu doesn't do much for accessibility in 
most of their radios.  And has very firmly stated to many blind hams that 
they do not intend on putting any accessibility in their radios...which is 
kind of funny since that was a few years ago, and now the ft450 has at least 
some accessibility.
Personally, I don't mind some yaesu products.
But kenwood and Icom always have at least one current production modern dual 
bander, and HF rig with voice functionality, where as yaesu doesn't always 
have that.
Right now, yaesu doesn't have any 2M, 70CM or dual band mobiles with speech 
output or any other accessible features.  Kenwood has a couple, and Icom 
doesn't, but Icom has a few current production HF radios with voice 
accessibility, as does kenwood.
Yaesu has just the one radio with a voice synth option.

73
Colin, V A6BS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alonzo" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: Hf rigs


> Out of principle, meaning?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 27, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't buy a Yaesu out of principle.  I don't recall, though, it 
>> seems
>> there was one rig from them that might be accessible.
>>
>> The Ic-718 is a nice little entry-level rig.  I think you can put a voice
>> synthesizer module in it that will read frequency, possibly S-meter also.
>>
>> Steve, K8SP
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Alonzo" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 3:31 PM
>> Subject: Hf rigs
>>
>>
>>> Comments on the yaesu ft450d
>>> It's between that and the Icom ic718
>>> The kemwoods are expemsibe for me right now.
>>>
>>> 73
>>> KD5FAM
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone