There is no comparison between commercial radios and hammy stuff.  You get
what you pay for.


Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of John Miller
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 8:23 PM
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Subject: Re: Commercial mobiles and HT's

About all I run on VHF/UHF, what little I do on those bands, is on 
commercial radios though I never pay that much for them. They just 
outperform the ham equipment and all I use them for is public service, I 
rather have the performance rather than the bells and whistles. I have one 
ham HT but hardly use it, it's nice if I need to make a last minute 
frequency change so I do bring it to those events but seldom use it, in an 
A/B comparison, my commercial Kenwood TK-280 blows it away on receive and 
transmit.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 9:07 PM
Subject: Commercial mobiles and HT's


>I have been asked which radios I bought in lieu of hammy mobiles and HT's.
> My two Kenwood mobiles are TK7180(VHF), and TK8180(UHF).  The Motorola
> mobiles are CDM1550, and the HT's HT1250.  I got pretty prices on the
> Kenwoods because one of the members in my Cactus Intertie affiliate of 
> which
> I was president for 11 years, owns a two way radio business serving both
> commercial and governmental customers.  One thing that I should have said 
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> that the Kenwood mobiles have an optional voice board.  I think that each 
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> the radios, with the optional voice board, cost me around $750.  The
> Motorola mobiles and HT's were bought for me  by another friend who 
> installs
> and services the radios in all of the Phoenix area fire departments. 
> While
> I don't remember exactly what they ran me, it was pretty steep.  And of
> course, you have to buy the programming cables and software, so you got to
> be fairly serious about buying commercial radios instead of hammy ones.
> BTW, the Motorola HT's were what I used in the now famous demolition derby
> experience I had, and about which I wrote an article in the Braille 
> Monitor.
> I was a bit surprised that they wanted to publish the article in light of
> the fact that I am not a member of the NFB, or any other blindness related
> outfit.
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