[ICOM] Best HF rig-results

[John Geiger]

About 10 days ago I sent out inquiries to the Icom, Kenwood, and Yaesu reflectors concerning the best HF rig those manufacturers had made.  The poll was non-scientific, and suffered from a small sample size, so it is completely statistically invalid.  Still, it is interesting to see what some opinions were. Here are the results for each brand:

Icom 
Tie between 781, 751A, 756PRO3.

Kenwood 
1. TS850
2. TS950SDX
3. TS870 and TS520

Yaesu
1. FT1000D
2. FT920
3. FT1 and FT890

Here would be my personal choice for each, excluding the IC7800 and FTDX9000 (as the above results also did) since they haven't been out long enough to evaluate:

Icom-toss up between 781 and 775.  Depends on whether you value DSP or the bandscope more

Kenwood-TS950SDX

Yaesu-FT1000MP

It is interesting to note that the only HF rig on eham.net's product reviews with a 5.0 average rating and more than 10 reviews is the Icom 765.

73s John NE0P