Ed Juge/NM wrote: > >The 817's ONLY advantages, to me, are 1) it goes up to 70cm (I have HTs for >that) > My take has been that the FT-817 has two advantages: o All mode on 6, 2 and 70 cm (good for hill topping using SSB/CW on those bands, which no HT I know of will do) o Full coverage HF receive. Those plusses have not motivated me to buy one, however. Oops .. I left out o Cuteness 73, Phil