<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div></div><div>I think they all do alpha numeric.</div><div> </div><div class="signature">Jardy Dawson<br>WA7JRD Ham Radio<br><span></span><br><span></span>Sent by hurling dead pigeons over the wall by trebuchet.</div><br> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447257312331_45536" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447257312331_45535" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447257312331_45534" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447257312331_45575" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447257312331_45574" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bob Burkett <r.l.burkett@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:52 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] inexpensive Dual Band Mobile radios?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447257312331_45533"><br><div id="yiv1085690858"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447257312331_45532"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447257312331_45531" dir="ltr">Are there any low cost mobiles like this with and alpha/numeric display?<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Bob</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447257312331_45605">KF3BY</div></div><div class="yiv1085690858gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv1085690858gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:48 AM, <a href="mailto:dmdfacp@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dmdfacp@gmail.com">dmdfacp@gmail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmdfacp@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dmdfacp@gmail.com">dmdfacp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv1085690858gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv1085690858yqt2330320484" id="yiv1085690858yqt45678"><div><div>The VV-898 can be had for $70, delivered, from eBay. It's offered at $69.99 plus about $10 postage, but with the Make an Offer option. </div><div>I bought one for $69.99, delivered from the USA. I've tried to send a screen capture, twice, but the image exceeds the message size. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><span style="font-size:13pt;">Sent from my iPhone </span></div><div>DSP</div></div><div><br clear="none">On Nov 11, 2015, at 4:00 AM, Dave Nathanson <<a href="mailto:KG6ZJO@nathanson.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:KG6ZJO@nathanson.org">KG6ZJO@nathanson.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks John, Ray, Shon & Mark. All helpful info. <div>And I'm continually amazed at the deep resources at the miklor site! :-) <br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>73,</div><div><div><div>Dave Nathanson</div><div>KG6ZJO</div><br clear="none">
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<div style="font-family:monospace;">On Nov 10, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Mark Waggoner via chirp_users <<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" style="font-family:monospace;"><div style="font-family:monospace;">Just a heads up, there is an updated version of the Juntai radio coming out shortly. John Miklor has been beta testing and says it's worth the wait. </div><div style="font-family:monospace;"><br clear="none"></div><div><div>On Nov 10, 2015, at 7:45 AM, John LaMartina <<a href="mailto:johnla@usa.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:johnla@usa.net">johnla@usa.net</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none"><div lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Dave,<br clear="none">Here is the review of the VV898 series.<br clear="none"></span></font><a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_VV898.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_VV898.php</a><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><br clear="none">as well as the<br clear="none"><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_KT8900.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_KT8900.php</a><br clear="none">An updated version of the KT8900 is to be released in about 5 days.<br clear="none">(no bugs and more features)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">The VV898 is CHIRP compatible.<br clear="none">The KT8900 is not CHIRP compatible yet.</span></b><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><u></u><u></u></span></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">John<u></u><u></u></span></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">-<span> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.miklor.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://www.miklor.com</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><u></u><u></u></span></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></font></div><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-width:1pt;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0in 0in;"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span> </span>Tuesday, November 10, 2015 2:20 AM<br clear="none"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b><span> </span>Chirp Discussion<br clear="none"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b><span> </span>[chirp_users] inexpensive Dual Band Mobile radios?<u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">[This is sort of off-topic, but hinges on CHIRP support for the radio] <u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Howdy, I'd like to get a recommendation for a dual band mobile radio for a new ham that will (probably) not use it a whole lot. But it needs to work reliably enough, even if not a lot of features. Actually less features is fine, that is just less stuff to not understand & less to forget between uses! :-) <u></u><u></u></span></font></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Mounting a UV5R in a car doesn't seem like a good idea. Can anyone offer anything good or bad about<span> </span><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">any</span></b><span> </span>"inexpensive" mobile dual band ham radio, including the <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Leixen VV-898 or Jetstream JT270M</span></b><span> </span>(apparently the same radio). It is one of the few cheap Mobile units I see on the list of CHIRP supported radios. <u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Amazon reviews seem fairly ok, especially for $99. I'm interested in a CHIRP-supported radio. This is intended for an 1997 Jeep Cherokee, and a small radio is probably a better match. It does need to be a dual bander. <u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">If the cost gets anywhere even near $200, I'd just recommend the Yaesu 7900 or Yaseu 8800. But for this situation, I'm open to hearing about cheaper alternatives that I might be able to recommend until this new ham grows into the "sport". <u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Thanks for your helpful council. <u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div><div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">73,<u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Dave Nathanson<u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">KG6ZJO<u></u><u></u></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">PS: if you know of a better forum to ask about CHIRP compatible mobile radios, it's ok to shoot me a pm or direct email about it. <u></u><u></u></span></font></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">chirp_users mailing list<br clear="none"><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br clear="none"><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br clear="none">To unsubscribe, send an email to<span> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;" href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"><span>chirp_users mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br clear="none"><span><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a></span><br clear="none"><span>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span></div></div></div><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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