> Ahh, the Tempo S1! You could always tell when someone had one
> of these
> because of the "Tempo Ping" when you went to transmit and the PLL
> locked. I still have my S1T on the shelf and I'm looking for the
> extendable antenna for it that I lost. I can't bring myself
> to getting
> rid of it.
A lot of Kenwood radios, even fairly current-vintage ones, do this too. You
can hear the VCO settle on frequency when the PTT is first keyed. The
oscillation sounds like it's up around 3 or 4 kHz and dampens out to an
inaudible level after maybe a second.
> I would also like the ability to enable or disable individual
> features
> on a radio as I wanted. This would greater simplify the radio
> during an
> emergency situation and eliminate the possibilities of putting your
> radio into an unknown mode of operation.
Yeah, I agree. Some of the radios that I own I hate because you have to go
through menus for even simple things like PL selection, which is a royal
PITA while you're driving. Give me an X9000 with MPL, scan, and monitor
buttons and I'm happy...
--- Jeff
