[1000mp] AW: Subjective Comparison of FT 2000 to Mark V

[Uwe Fleischer]

Hello everybody,

> Now that the FT 2000 has arrived, and some of you have purchased and
> operated the new radio, would anyone care to share some performance
> comparisons against the Mark V?

I would be interested in this comparison too, especially under one aspect:

Beside my Mk-V Field I own a Drake line (R-4C/T-4XC) which was one of the
outstanding radios in the 60's and the beginning 70's and a TenTec
Paragon-585. The later suffers from a regularly needed CPU-reset because of
hanging up, but I think it's the truth to say, that the RX was also one of
the upper class.

I like my Mk-V very much, but compared to this other radios, and also to the
Yaesu FT-920 of a friend, the Mk-V has by far the most noisy RX. I have also
heard this from other hams.
I find this somewhat annoying, because my favourite operating style is
DXing. I worked 170 DXCC's in 14 months with 100W, a windom ant and a GP for
30m. So a big percentage of my QSOs are at the limit of readability, where
the signal-to-noise-behaviour is the limiting factor.

Could anybody tell, if there is a remarkable improvement with aspect to
noise in the FT-2000?


73 de Uwe, DL8UF