Butch the 220 radio to which you refer being in a box is that a mobile 
or ht?

IF it is a mobile I may be interested.

Don


On 1/27/2015 4:18 PM, Butch Bussen wrote:
> That is the way I remembered that one.  I was thinking there was another
> model bbetween the 7 and 71, but don't remember it, as I recall it
> didn't talk well if at all, it wasn't around long.  The 71 is one very
> nice and good radio.  If it had 220, that would be cool, although no 220
> here, really nothing much here except me and my own repeaters.  I think
> I have a 7 I suppose I could sell to a blind person,  not sure what it
> would be worth and I'd have to dig for it, still in a box I brought back
> from Vegas.  I liked the 707 well, think it used the vs3, but as I
> recall the pl tones did talk, not sure about that.  Only thing I had
> against that radi was it was one band at a time, but again, a very good
> radio.  The 71 is also very easy to open up for those interested in such
> things.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
>
>> Butch,
>>
>> You are correct.
>>
>> Early runs of the V7A up through a serial number that I forgot long ago
>> had a display that would fail.
>>
>> I owned one of those units for a few years. For some time, Kenwood
>> would replace the control head free of charge, but they no longer do that.
>>
>> That problem aside, the TMV7A is very reliable, but the voice feedback
>> in its menus is more like that in the TS570 or TS2000, since it uses
>> the same voice chip as those radios.
>>
>> As I said above, the radio is very reliable. I bought mine used from
>> Anthony, W2AJV, who is on this list, in either 2003, or 2004. I sold it
>> to a local sighted ham after I bought my TMV71A in 2008. He still
>> checks into our local nets with it every week.
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>
>>