Avoid the Icom IC-718 if you want to do push to talk by CAT command. Icom chose not to put PTT by CAT in the command word set. There are other methods of doin PTT but CAT is by far the most elegant.
Rick - KH2DF Sent from my iPhone On May 28, 2009, at 9:06 AM, bruce mallon <[email protected]> wrote: AVOID FT-100 or 100D --- On Thu, 5/28/09, kh6ty <[email protected]> wrote: From: kh6ty <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [digitalradio] How do I get started with digital radio? To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7:36 AM For about $500 you can get a secondhand IC-706MKIIG and be able to work SSB, CW, FM, or digital modes from 160m through UHF. 73, Skip KH6TY
