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Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 2m and 440 MHz
From:
John Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 5 Aug 2013 07:24:33 -0400
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For starting out it probably would.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RJ Sandefur" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 2m 
and 440 MHz


> So I guess what you're saying the baofeng might 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

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