Show me an all-mode HT that retails for the same sort of price and is the same sort of size as an FM HT and I might be interested. Otherwise, to get >UHF and VHF SSB I'm stuck with an inconveniently large radio which is only really useful for the twenty minutes a day that a satellite is overhead.

Not to mention the difficulty involved in tuning the radio and aiming the antenna. Doesn't the Doppler shift mean you need to constantly retune? >How do you manage to do that, key the mike and point the aerial, *and* have enough brainpower left to make a contact?

I would love the opportunity to have the "difficulty" of tuning in the big boy sats! I would also find pletny of uses besides the sats for a radio of that caliber...And one of these days I will gladly spend the money on the biggest badest radio I can find and then I will build the biggest bestest tower ever with a rediculous amount of elements and rotater dealy bob!!!

So there!

Kevin KF7MYK