Scott:
Although a greate and flexable radio, there is no speech and you can't add
it physically via internal board etc.
You would only get speech through a PC running either ham radio delux or
any other loging program that would proagat the frequency, band and mode
fields etc.
Also, this radio has a group of buttons which bring up a list of items then
you use the select knob to adjust things. Very complex.
The only Yaesu rig that has speech to my knowledge is the FT-450D and Yaesu
doesn't plan on adding speech to anything else any time soon.
So you could either spring for that 1, a Yaesu rig that has lots of buttons
like the FT-950 and up or look for an excellent condition FT-847 which did
have speech back in the day.
73:
Mike DE VO1AX
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