Post date: Aug 29, 2010 4:49:6 PM
Well the FT 290R has been sold on ebay. There is very little 2m activity around here and the audio was not working, no time to fix so it went to raise some money for a 70cm rig so I can meet some of the locals on-air.
The TK-805 came up and after a bit of research it seemed perfect - 35W and 16 channels programmable.
I'm not going to be channel hopping and the cheap handies would not get me into the local repeater so this should do the business. Apparently a good old workhorse so I'll update when I get it up and running.