Zach, Where did you get your baofeng? Where did you get your angana? RJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zach Shifflett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 2m 
and 440 MHz


> Hi RJ.
> I have a Baofeng and love it.
> I know a lot of people who have them, both on this list and off, who
> have it as well.
> It's really a great little radio, and I think you'll like it a lot
> once you get it.
> I was talking to a guy on my local repeater the other day who works at
> a Wall-Mart store near here.
> He had gotten a baofeng for ham use, and loved it so much that he got
> another one to take to work and replace his store walky talky.
> He said it was more reliable than his company provided Motorola.
> I know it seems like it's cheap at only 40 bucks, but really it is a
> sweet little radio with all the capability you need for a starter ht.
> With the Nagoya Antenna I bought for it, I can sit on my back porch
> and make it into a repeater that's 16 miles away with full quiet, so
> it's not just a peace of junk.
> It's a really neat radio, and the best deal you can get for the price.
> As for accessibility, I've not played with many other ht's, but
> according to the active elements reviews, it seems like just about the
> most accessible handheld radio out there.
> You might get something moderately accessible if you spring for a
> really expensive Kenwood, but the Baofeng will do just fine.
> You'll have to remember a couple menu options if you wanna program
> repeaters on the fly, but it's just a matter of getting to know the
> radio.
> If you can operate a microwave oven, alarm clock, car stereo, etc.,
> you can operate this little rig.
> I heard this old guy today on a 2 meter repeater who had just come
> back from a hamfest say that the baofeng was the most incredible radio
> he'd seen for it's price.
> He said it outshined a bunch of ht's he himself had bought for 3 times
> its price.
> Anyway, I'm not trying to sell it to you or anything, but I really do
> love the radio.
> Just recently having gotten my own license, I was really skeptical at 
> first.
> Check out Buddy's eyes free guide at active elements.  There's a lot
> of good stuff on the site about radios of all makes and models.
> 73,
> Zach, KK4RUZ
>
> On 8/4/13, RJ Sandefur <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> So what the baofeng be my best bet? RJ
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> skype: curtis1014
>>