[Yaesu] Have to pass on the FT-897

[KD7JYK DM09]

Your kidding...  I had an oddball verison of Kenwood that could be
controlled by the mic, even worked as a repeater, cross-band full duplex
telephone, hot mic for surveillance, received somethign like 130-500MHz,
really oddball unit.

Kurt

----- Original Message -----
From: "mikea" <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>
To: "KD7JYK DM09" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
Cc: <mike.kc9doa at sbcglobal.net>; <yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 21:44
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Have to pass on the FT-897


: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:54:00PM -0700, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
: > I don't care for all the little buttons spread out over the edges.
:
: Get the DTMF+lotsofbuttons mike, and you can literally control everything
: except squelch -- and send Morse using the up/down buttons as paddles.
:
: --
: Mike Andrews, W5EGO
: mikea at mikea.ath.cx
: Tired old sysadmin