[ForSale-Swap] FOR SALE:Yaesu VX-5R HT and Garmin GPS-III Plus Portable GPS Unit

[kf4alv at charter.net]

Hello everyone.  I am about to post both these items on EBAY and 
thought I would offer them to the group first.

Both these items are like new, in original packaging with small 
exceptions as noted for the GPS unit.

1. Yaesu VX-5R tri-band HT.  This ht is about the size of a package 
of cigaretes and yet it puts out a full 5 watts and has an 
astronomical amount of feaatures.  It covers the 6 meter, 2 meter 
and 70 cm ham bands.  It also receives darn near everything else 
including weather, aircraft, tv broadcast, am broadcast, fm 
broadcast.  It does not receive cell phone freqs and I do not think it 
could be modifed for such.  This thing has more bells and whistles 
than any ht I have ever seen.  A full description giving all the 
features of this radio can be found at www.yaesu.com.
This radio is as new, original box, instruction manual, wall charger, 
rubber duck and 6 meter extention for rubber duck.  Warranty has 
never been filled out and is included in box.
I am also including the programming software and all necessary 
cables to interface this ht with your computer, allowing you to 
program it from your computer. I purchased this software about 2 
weeks ago and it works fine. It cost about $50.00.
 Why am I selling?  This thing is just too complicated for me to 
enjoy,the learning curve is too much. I am looking for offers, either 
cash or partial trade.  I am primarily interested in a Yaesu ft-530 
dual band ht in excellent condition or an alinco dj-580 dual band ht 
in excellent condition.

2.  GARMIN GPS III PLUS....
Not too many months ago, this was GARMIN's top of the line GPS 
unit for consumers.  It is a 12 parallel channel unit and will display  
your locationin real time on the built in map of cities, roads and 
highways, along with your direction of travel, your speed and your 
altitude.  It also allows downloading of street level detail maps into 
the gps unit.  Even without the garmin mapsource cd (darn thing 
cost about 100.00) the built in maps are very good and fairly well 
detailed.  It shows by name the little street in Buford Georgia where 
I live and this street is only about 1/4 mile long.

This unit is not new, I have had it about a year, but it still looks 
new, still in the original box, has instruction manual and interface 
cable to allow connection to your computer.

If this is sold or traded to a fellow ham, I will include a cdr that I 
think you will like, especially if you own the gps unit!  

Pictures, descriptions, operating manuals for gps unit and 
operating manual for the mapsource software are available at 
www.garmin.com.

I love to use this thing in my car feeding the gps signal into a 
laptop computer running microsoft's streets software.

The only thing missing from the box is a wrist strap, quick 
reference card, and the two small pieces of velcro.

Again, I am looking for offers, either cash or trade.. In addition to 
the two ht's listed in my wish list above, I am interested in a 
desktop computer  minimum 500 mhz, with cd-r and large hard 
drive.
Please no packard bell or compaq... Hewlett Packard would be 
considered.
thanks for reading....if you are at all interested please contact me 
soon as once they are posted on ebay I will have to live with it for 
the duration of the auction.

jim/kf4alv

Like Ricky Nelson says in his song.......I am also a traveling man, 
mostly from east to west or vice versa..