If you want to program it with a computer and just tune up and down memory 
channels and not make any changes, it's accessible. If you want to do more 
than that, and actually make changes, it's not. personally I'd prefer 
commercial equipment if I can just tune through memory channels but I know 
several people who have the ft-60R, all sighted and they say it's nothing 
special and a pain to program when you're sighted. I have played with one 
helping a new ham and I could tune through memory channels once PC 
programmed, go to VFO and enter frequencies but that was it. No setting PL 
tones, no changing settings, no clue where in the world I was in memory 
unless there was a national weather channel in a memory channel to use as a 
reference. That's nice until you go out of range of that service, then 
you're lost again. As a blind ham, you can do a lot better in accessibility.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curtis Delzer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 2m 
and 440 MHz


>I want to know about this also since our local club seems to just love
> thatHT.
>
>
> Is the Yaesu FT-60R , dual ban
> d hand held , 2m and 440 MHz radio =
> accessible to a blind person? RJ
>
> Curtis Delzer.
> HS.
>
> K 6 V F O
> San Bernardino, CA.
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