Joe,


At this time the king of accessible HTs is the Kenwood TH-D74A. It 
covers 144/222/440MHZ in FM and DStar.  The radio in addition has a 
general coverage receiver which includes AM, FM narrow and wide, SSB and CW.


The rig is accessible as it comes with speech capability built in.  The 
menus and settings are spoken and even the callsign readout using DStar 
is spoken.


       Then comes the plethora of hand-helds from China, Baofeng, 
Wouxun, and a whole bunch more that have limited speech readout but can 
still be programmed by a blind person with a little memorization of key 
commands.


Finally if you can still get it on the used market there is the Kenwood 
TH-F6A.  It doesn't have speech readout but the radio beeps at different 
frequencies  when moving through the menus and settings.  By memorizing 
a blind person can independently program this radio.


The TH-F6A covers 144/222/440MHZ in FM and also has a general coverage 
receiver.


I hope this helps.



Dave Marthouse N2AAM

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On 9/1/2018 4:33 PM, Joe Quinn wrote:
> subject says it all, any out there, that are actually made anymore? :)

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