Where is the totaral? RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 11:51 AM Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 2m and 440 MHz > If you're looking for an ht, haven't kept up on this much, the f6a > (kenwood), or ahd baofung. Buddy does a very nice tutorial on this one > and at $40 you can't beat the price. I use the rt systems software for > this one and with n v d a it is workable. The free software doesn't > work at all for me. The Kenwood is a good rig and also gives you 220, > I've had one for ten years and still use it. > 73 > Butch > WA0VJR > Node 3148 > Wallace, ks. > > > On Sun, 4 Aug 2013, RJ > Sandefur wrote: > >> So what the baofeng 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 >> >>