[Elecraft] rather provocative advert from Kenwood

Doug Person doug at northroutt.net
Fri Jul 2 19:53:14 EDT 2010


  I completely agree with you on the TS-830 and TS-850 - both excellent 
rigs and nothing Kenwood has done since comes close.  I kind of liked 
the TS-480 but eventually sold it.  I would think the TS-590 might be 
pretty good.  It will be interesting though to see what the price comes 
out as.

Doug -- KØDXV

On 7/2/2010 4:46 PM, k6rb at baymoon.com wrote:
> Let's see, now. While Yaesu was making FT-1000s, 9000s, and now 5000s; and
> ICOM was making 7800, 7600 and 7700; Kenwood was selling its unimpressive
> TS-2000. Now, we're supposed to believe that they've suddenly got religion
> and are challenging the K3? Yeah, right. And, even if they actually made a
> radio that has decent specs, does anyone really want to deal with Kenwood
> customer service? In my opinion, the best radios Kenwood ever made were
> the TS-830 and TS-850. Then, it stopped caring. And, so did I...about
> Kenwood products, anyway.
>
> Rob K6RB
>
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