Kscoinhutch wrote:
Is anyone interested in swapping a UHF mobile for one of these Kenwoods?

I have a Kenwood TK-980 800 Mhz mobile and a TK-760 high-band mobile. According
to a webpage I visited, I can program these radios through their front panels
without using a computer by pressing one of the buttons while powering up the
radio to put it into the program mode. This procedure will not work for me. Do
I need to use a computer or not? The website says that the up/down channel
buttons on the radio are used to program the frequencies, but none of this
works for me.

The radio must be enabled to allow you to program from the front panel.
If it is not then you must use a computer to first set up this option,
hence, yes you need to use a computer.