So I guess what you're saying the baofeng might be my best bet? RJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 2m 
and 440 MHz


> If you want to program it with a computer and just tune up and down memory
> channels and not make any changes, it's accessible. If you want to do more
> than that, and actually make changes, it's not. personally I'd prefer
> commercial equipment if I can just tune through memory channels but I know
> several people who have the ft-60R, all sighted and they say it's nothing
> special and a pain to program when you're sighted. I have played with one
> helping a new ham and I could tune through memory channels once PC
> programmed, go to VFO and enter frequencies but that was it. No setting PL
> tones, no changing settings, no clue where in the world I was in memory
> unless there was a national weather channel in a memory channel to use as 
> a
> reference. That's nice until you go out of range of that service, then
> you're lost again. As a blind ham, you can do a lot better in 
> accessibility.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Curtis Delzer" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 
> 2m
> and 440 MHz
>
>
>>I want to know about this also since our local club seems to just love
>> thatHT.
>>
>>
>> Is the Yaesu FT-60R , dual ban
>> d hand held , 2m and 440 MHz radio =
>> accessible to a blind person? RJ
>>
>> Curtis Delzer.
>> HS.
>>
>> K 6 V F O
>> San Bernardino, CA.
>>
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>>
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