Sounds like it is only a marketing date and not a shipping date. It will be interesting to see what they announce as a shipping date - the expectation is that they will at least have a demo rig at Dayton. "Kenwood Corporation (President and CEO: Haruo Kawahara, Head Office: Hachioji, Tokyo) will start marketing sequentially from the end of May (June) a new FM mobile transceiver: the 144/430 (440) MHz FM Dual bander TM-V71 Series." > For all, Kenwood announced the new radio on 23 Apr. >> "http://www.kenwood.co.jp/en/news/20070423.html" >> 73 de Bob, W9BO -- Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E Personal: http://bibleseven.com/kd4e.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ham-macguyver/ Ham House & 10 Acres For Sale in Florida: http://mysite.verizon.net/kd4e/