Hello Eric, congrats on winning the UPS battle.  As I believe I had
mentioned to you in a private message, the Kenwood 480 is a pretty decent
radio.  I bought one from a good friend here in Phoenix that had been used
for maybe one hour.  He buys brand new, as well as used, radios just to see
if he likes them or not.  In one week he received his new Flex 6700, a Icom
7600, and the Kenwood 590.  He uses the 590 as much as he uses his Flex
6700, and hasn't put an hour total on the Icom 7600.  Since he wasn't using
the 480 at all, he asked me if I wanted to buy it at a big discount from
new, and naturally I jumped at the chance.  I use it strictly on six meters
to drive my Commander VHF-2000, and I like it very much.  I think that you
will like yours when you get it.

Good luck, and best 73.

Alan/KD7GC



Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Eric Oyen
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 2:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: UPS finally paying up.

Hello everyone. This is just to let you know, UPS is finally paying up =
on what they owe. It took a lot of calls (including a few to the =
corporate HQ) before I got any action. I will be reimbursed the full =
insurance value of replacement and the entire cost of shipping and =
packaging. The check will be in my hands on  Friday.

Now, all I need is to decide on which radio. from what I understand, the =
kenwood TS-480 is recent enough to use the newer speech synth modules. I =
will have to dig up the email from one of the users here that has one he =
offered for $800.

Anyway, WOO HOO!=20

-eric
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