I would not recommend that radio at aall.  I have one I won at a ham 
fest and it is almostall menu driven.  If youg go into a manu and don't 
make the selection in a couple seconds, say  you pause to look at your 
cheat sheet, it drops out of menus.  Absolutely not a blind friendly 
radio at all.  I've done a littlee programming with a computer, but that 
is about it.  Also, keep in mind it does not have a built in tuner as 
the kenwoods such as 440, 450, 690, 480, and others do.  Again, the q s 
y e r would help, but you can't access memories with it as you can on 
other rigs, the way Yaesu did the programming.
What are you looking for, how much do you have to spend?  With solid 
state rigs, I think you certainly want either internal or external 
tuner.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Glenn / Lenny wrote:

> Hi All,
> It looks to me like one of these can be used remotely, or with a netbook
> attached, but I'm not sure.
> Hoping someone here can tell for sure, because this brand does not have a
> speech board available AFAIK.
> http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/1857.html
> But this looks like a great rig, and just a little above my price range,
> maybe I can save for the difference if it turns out to be the radio for me.
> Glenn
> Known  as: Glenn, Lenny, or N0YJV
>
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