Howard:

What you say here confirms what I understand from others, so I think I'm all 
set with the discinction.

Thanks very much and 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard, W A 9 Y B W" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: Questions on TS570S


> Hi Tom,
>
> I believe the 570S has six meters and the D model just goes to 30Mhz.
>
> Try keying in a frequency in the six meter band and see if it goes there.
>
> 73's
>
> Howard #3
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 7:26 PM
> Subject: Questions on TS570S
>
>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> Well, this afternoon and early evening, we visited with the XYL of the
>> silent key who I mentioned in my e-mails earlier today.
>>
>> It turns out that he does have a TS570S, that is in very good shape, and
>> I'm
>> seriously thinking of purchasing it in order to have on hand as a back-up
>> HF
>> rig.
>>
>> I do have some questions about the rig, though:
>>
>> 1.  Does anyone have a clean text copy of the manual that you could send
>> me?
>> I'd also appreciate any other documentation that you might have.  I
>> checked
>> for the manual on icanworkthisthing.com, but found it to be rather hard 
>> to
>> navigate with Jaws 13.
>>
>> Please send anything to:
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> 2.  What is the difference between the TS570 S and the TS570 D?  The rig 
>> I
>> checked out today was the 570S.
>>
>> 3.  Am I correct in saying that the TS570S requires the VS3 voice chip in
>> order to provide needed speech screen rdading output?  Does anyone have 
>> an
>> extra VS3 that they would be willing to part with for a fair price??  If
>> not, I'll order one if I really do decide to purchase the rig.
>>
>> Thanks for answering these questions!
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>