[Kenwood] TS-830S age

[Ron Goldstein]

At 10:12 AM 8/30/04 -0400, Larry wrote:
>Hi,
>First off i would like to thank all that repied to my question about the 
>kenwood 830S age and production years. But it sems no one knows for 
>certain the answer. Here is what kenwood sent as a reply......
>
>Dear Kenwood Customer:
>
>Unfortunately we do not track serial number that far back the TS-830S was 
>been out of production since 1981.
>
>
>According to them it went out of production about the same yeart most 
>people starting buying them !!!
>
>Larry N1YW
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Hi Larry,

         That's wrong----I bought a brand new one in November 1980, and had 
to wait about 8 weeks for delivery because the dealer that I bought it from 
(Derrick Electronics) had not yet gotten delivery of his first one. If I 
remember correctly, I paid about 1100.00 for the radio, the SP-230 speaker, 
and the VFO-230 remote VFO. I sold everything on Ebay about 3 years ago, 
and got over $800 for the 3 pieces.


                                         RON....KA2IIA

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