No, not 220, 2m and 440

73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Don Breda wrote:

> Butch the 220 radio to which you refer being in a box is that a mobile
> or ht?
>
> IF it is a mobile I may be interested.
>
> Don
>
>
> On 1/27/2015 4:18 PM, Butch Bussen wrote:
>> That is the way I remembered that one.  I was thinking there was another
>> model bbetween the 7 and 71, but don't remember it, as I recall it
>> didn't talk well if at all, it wasn't around long.  The 71 is one very
>> nice and good radio.  If it had 220, that would be cool, although no 220
>> here, really nothing much here except me and my own repeaters.  I think
>> I have a 7 I suppose I could sell to a blind person,  not sure what it
>> would be worth and I'd have to dig for it, still in a box I brought back
>> from Vegas.  I liked the 707 well, think it used the vs3, but as I
>> recall the pl tones did talk, not sure about that.  Only thing I had
>> against that radi was it was one band at a time, but again, a very good
>> radio.  The 71 is also very easy to open up for those interested in such
>> things.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
>> Node 3148
>> Wallace, ks.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
>>
>>> Butch,
>>>
>>> You are correct.
>>>
>>> Early runs of the V7A up through a serial number that I forgot long ago
>>> had a display that would fail.
>>>
>>> I owned one of those units for a few years. For some time, Kenwood
>>> would replace the control head free of charge, but they no longer do that.
>>>
>>> That problem aside, the TMV7A is very reliable, but the voice feedback
>>> in its menus is more like that in the TS570 or TS2000, since it uses
>>> the same voice chip as those radios.
>>>
>>> As I said above, the radio is very reliable. I bought mine used from
>>> Anthony, W2AJV, who is on this list, in either 2003, or 2004. I sold it
>>> to a local sighted ham after I bought my TMV71A in 2008. He still
>>> checks into our local nets with it every week.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>>
>>>
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