I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with the iphone echolink app? I'm getting an iphone and this looks like it would be fun.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with the iphone echolink app? I'm getting an iphone and this looks like it would be fun.

Will the Vs-3 read all the menus on the ts-2000?  If your blind and cannot read the menus on todays rigs your dead in the water.  You can't change power levels, filter settings and the like.  I was considering the icom ic-7000 but icom said that their voice synth will only read the screen like freq, meters mode and such.  That is not nearly good enough for a blind person to independantly run the radio by themselves.  Thanks Gary/WR1U

i hve a yaesu vx-170.  The local repeater transmits tone squelch freq of 127.3 but there is a remote receiver which uses 110.9.  I want to receive the tone squelch 127.63 but transmit 110.9.  Yaesu said to load in the repeater as normal with the receive pl tone and then go to vfo put in just the xmit freq with the encode pl push the f/n key and hold the ptt while putting that freq into the same memory as the receive freq.  I reverts to the receive tone and will not xmit 110.9.  Am I doing something wrong or is yaesu wrong and the radio will not do split pl tones.  Thansk. Gary.

Ok heres what i found out.  called yaesu and they don't support that radio anymore but said on page 53 of the mfj catalog there is a mic that gives ptt and nothing else but it will work for that radio.  model is mfj-290my.  

Well the problem with the mic is that the PTT sticks badly.  A guy in the club tried to fix it but it is still really bad.  

Hi, i have a bad mic for a yaesu ft-2500m.  It's the mh-27 mic and you can't find them anymore.  Anyone know if there is an alternative mic for that radio?  Thanks 73 de Gary/WR1U

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I am looking there.  I am saving for a Kenwood Ts-2000.  I don't know if I want to buy used or new but looking for a good deal from a good source.  I'm not ready yet only about $600 saved so far but soon i hope.  

I am wondering if there are any good sites to look for used ham gear other than ebay.  I know about qrz and eham but are there any other popular ones?  Thanks.  Gary/WR1U

Home Depot is within walking distance so I will go there and look for myself.  I called them and they had no idea what i was talking about.  Kids must have grown up on cable.    I'm sure I can find something.  They do have the bungie cords though so I can at least get them.  

sorry num lock was off.  x50 or x500

What I'm trying to put up is a diamond x dualband antenna.  possibly in the future a diamond x or something that will do 6/2/440mhz

Basically i live in a 2 story townhouse.  I have a deck on the back.  Right now i have a diamond x50 antenna in my storage shed which is up against the building and it's inside.  I want better coverage.  What I want to do is ubolt about 20-25 feet of mast to the corner of the deck with the x50 on top of it.  What would be a good avenue to go?  I may in the future upgrade the antenna to maybe an x500 or something that has 6-2-440 on it.  

Where can i find antenna mast?  Radioshack doesn't sell it in their mall stores, neither do home depot, best buy or circuit city.  radioshack has it in a store on the other side of town by it is $22 for 10ft and that sounds high to me.  Any ideas?  Online place?  Thanks Gary.

Oh, a PS:  Does anyone know where i can get replacement bulbs for the front panel?  those went too.  Thanks again.