Hi John,

thanks, that's what I thought.  Now I am back figureing out which Kenwood
would be best.

carl


At 08:32 PM 3/5/2005, you wrote:
>No menu reading on icoms, usually just frequency mode and S meter, I believe
>that's all the same right now but I do know no icoms read the menus.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carl Martin" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 11:15 PM
>Subject: Re: Icom ic-746 and ic-2120 speech modules?
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>How much will the Icoms speech module tell you?  Does it make the menus
>accessible?
>
>carl
>
>
>At 11:49 PM 3/4/2005, you wrote:
> >Most your icoms you can add voice modules to them so it will work for you.
> >I
> >know there's this one store: radio world here in Toronto that will do the
> >modification to most of their icom and Yazoo merchandise. I know it's in
> >Canada but here is the number: it won't hurt to call them and I suppose you
> >can ship your rig to them if the voice synthesizer thing is necessary:
> >416-667-1000. Hope that helps.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 8:00 AM
> >Subject: Icom ic-746 and ic-2120 speech modules?
> >
> >
> > > HI folks,
> > >
> > > Curious if there is a speech board for the Icom 746.  I work at a
> > > local hospital station quite a bit.  Tired of sniffing the display on
> > > the hf rig.  Since I've no antennas at home where I live currently I'm
> > > over there quite a bit to run traffic nets and my usual ncs duties on
> > > the maritime mobile service net.  I'm basically their ham volunteer
> > > coordinator for disaster preparedness.
> > >
> > > THe 2120 is a nice dual band vhf/uhf (2 meters and 440) rig, dual
> > > receive.  Curious if there's speech for it as well.
> > >
> > > Anybody familiar with these radios?
> > >
> > > ON similar subject does anybody know of ascii manuals for either of
> > > these available anywehre?
> > >
> > > 73 de nf5b
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Richard Webb
> > >
> > > Electric Spider Productions
> > >                                             "They that can give up
> >essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> > > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> > > --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
> > > Historical review of Pennsylvania
> > >
> > >