I can help if you want to call me.  Let me know when you get the radio. 
I can send you a zipped file with the manual someone did in html and 
some notes I've made on menu settings I've changed.  I'll put it up on 
sendspace and let you know when it is there if you can do sendspace.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On 
Sun, 2 Dec 2012, KK4AHX Darren Duff wrote:

> Hey everyone.
>
> I will soon be buying a Kenwood tmv71a and was wondering what I will need to
> know to set it up and start using it. I will have the speech board installed
> by the store, as I am not so good at such things lol!  Is there an easy
> users guide out there or would someone that owns it be kind enough to call
> me and explain how to use the unit?
>
> I plan on buying the radio, speech board, power supply, and what ever else I
> will need to make the unit work as a base station.  I already have a diamond
> X50 on top of my house with 100 feet of LMR 400 coax that I use with my ht,
> so I think it's just a matter of hooking it up, programming it and knowing
> how to start using it. I will be getting a battery backup from someone in my
> ham club so no worries there.
>
> I will be buying from the ham radio outlet and plan to call them tomorrow.
> They can ship it to me and I think anything over $100 ships for free!  So
> far my only rig has been the good old Wouxun ht. Thanks for any help you can
> give.
>
> Soon, I'll be talking with the big boys! And the next thing will be
> upgrading to general!
>
>
> 73.
> Darren Duff.
> amateur radio station KK4AHX.
>
> Vice President,
> Cherokee Amateur Radio Society.
> http://www.cherokeehams.com
>
> Cherokee County ARES.
> http://www.cherokee-ares.org
>
>
>