[Kenwood] re vintage of TS-850S

[Clark Savage Turner]

I don't know the date coding, but as for the "famous bugs" - maybe you 
refer to the DDS chips being unreliable?  Early serial number 850's with 
the DDS chips replaced will perform just as well as later models in that 
respect.  I've been there, done that.

Clark
WA3JPG

On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 10:31 AM, Fern Rivard wrote:

>     I have friend who is looking at a couple of used TS-850S with serial
> numbers in 20 Million and 50 million series. What would the approximate
> date of these be and are good series so as not to have the famous bugs
> in them?   Thanks from Fern
>