Can you recommend an accessible transceiver that picks up VHF/UHF
frequencies.  It would have to be one that can be programmed without vision.
Would you recommend a mobile or a portable unit?  I live in a 1-bedroom
apartment so the antenna is also a consideration.  Thanks.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Patrick Byrne
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:52 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: accessible VHF equipment


Hello Eric,
Connecting a power supply should not cause any real problems.  If you can
once get sighted assistance to show you the positive wire, and help you
determine the positive connection to the power supply, mark the positive
lead with a piece of electrical tape or a small wire tie and you can always
find it again.  The transceiver end of the power cable is terminated in
some kind of polarized plug, so that end won't cause a problem.  I have
seldom, if ever, had to disconect and reconnect the power supply end of my
power cables.
Help this helps.
Pat, K9JAU  At 08:33 PM 1/6/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi all, I am a new member on this list and have a question about VHF
>equipment.  My name is Eric Patterson and my call is kb7vfr.  I have been
an
>amateur radio operator since 1993.
>         Currently, I have an old FT-470 portable radio, whose battery
> does not
>maintain a charge anymore.  I am looking at getting a new VHF/UHF radio.
>Here are the options I am considering:
>1.  getting a portable such as the Icom IC-t90 or Kenwood TH-f6a.
>2.  getting a mobile unit like the Kenwood Tm-g707.  The advantage to going
>this route is that it might allow me to install a voice synthesizer for
>checking the frequency.  However, because I have no useable vision, I would
>have trouble hooking up the power supply.  Please send recommendations on
>accessible mobile or portable VHF radios and instructions for hooking up
>power supplies.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Eric Patterson