I don't mind a little hlep as long as the radio is good quality.  I 
don't have a lot of money but it sounds as if this radio has enough 
speech output that I can make good use of it.  I have two HT's, one 
Baolfeng and one Wouxun that have partial speech as well and I'm able to 
use them fairly easily.
Does the speech readout also work with these filtering things like the 
DSP and such you're talking about?
73

On 6/18/2015 7:25 PM, Michael Ryan wrote:
> Hi Jeff:Â
> Well you get the basic speech I mentioned in the previous email and you can
> connect up the rig to a PC for rig control and logging. You have to get
> sighted assistance if you want to play around with the EQ and general setup
> etc. As for the filtering, you press the DSP button to cycle through the
> various items, DNR, notch, contour, width and off but once you remember the
> order you shouldn't have a problem. You get as much speech as the Icoms but
> if you really want a fully accessible rig, I'd probably would look at the
> Kenwood TS-480SAT or for a few bucks more, the 590, unless your a Yaesu Guy
> like I am and prepared to except a little help from time to time and use a
> Yaesu product. Again though the FT-450 can be a setup and forget nice
> little rig. Look up the FT-450 Yahoo Group, those folks were very helpful
> and told me of the setdial trick.Â
> HTH and 73: Mike DE VO1AXÂ
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