Where is the totaral? RJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 2m
and 440 MHz
> If you're looking for an ht, haven't kept up on this much, the f6a
> (kenwood), or ahd baofung. Buddy does a very nice tutorial on this one
> and at $40 you can't beat the price. I use the rt systems software for
> this one and with n v d a it is workable. The free software doesn't
> work at all for me. The Kenwood is a good rig and also gives you 220,
> I've had one for ten years and still use it.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, RJ
> Sandefur wrote:
>
>> So what the baofeng be my best bet? RJ
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 11:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held ,
>> 2m
>> and 440 MHz
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> skype: curtis1014
>>
>>
|
