Hi there Mike.  Got a question; is the speech allready built into the 
ft450 radio or do you have to use tts software with a computer to have 
the stuff spoken to you? I saw one today at field day but the owner 
didn't know about the speech capabilities, other than to say that there 
was software that allowed it to speak the frequencies and such as you 
are tuning around on the bands.

Sounds like from what you describe, the speech is allready built into 
the unit.
Additionally, as there apparently are 3 different ft450 models, the 
ft450, the ft450 at and the ft450D.  Do all 3 of these units have speech?
Thanks
73

On 6/18/2015 8:37 PM, Michael Ryan wrote:
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> Date: June 18, 2015 10:01:43 PM
> Subject: Re Yaesu FT-450
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> Jeff:
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> Nope the only thing that talks is the S-9, freq and mode or freq and mode
> plus the RX and TX freqs during split.
> I remembered the settings after my XYL's help and if let's say your in DNR
> mode, you'll hear when you rotate the select knob. When your in Contour
> mode, you'll hear the difference when you rotate the select knob etc. When
> your back out of the DSP selections, rotating the select knob jumps up or
> down a frequency so you'll hear that too and can check the freq with the F
> CS combo.
> I was very fond of the FT-450 I had and ran it as an HF remote. I'd
> certainly buy another 1 for a compact/FD rig.
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> 73:
> Mike DE VO1AX