On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:46:39 GMT, Pete KE9OA wrote:

I don't mind the LCD radios, as long as they are using some kind of LED
backlighting. In this day and age, there is no excuse to use incandescent
light bulbs for backlighting.

I agree about those older radios with their more "squared off" style being
more appealing, but I don't care for the flourescent displays. Reminds me of
some sort of appliance like a VCR. I prefer either LED or LCD readouts.
Different styles of radios, different preferences...........that's why there
are so many.

Those of us with decreased eysesight favor the bright fluorescent
displays because we can read them much easier than the LCD panels.
The latter try to stuff so much info on the itty-bitty panel so that
a magnifying glass is necessary to make sense out of it. At least
the first generation LCD panels (such as on the ICOM 229H) had large
digits for frequency readout albeit incandescent backlight. The
current generation (such as on the ICOM 2100H for instance) are not
too bad if you are close up and view it head-on. Both of them are
"square box" fronts, too.

I can't comment on Kenwood or Yaesu because I don't "do" those brands.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon