[Kenwood] rig rumors?

[peter A Markavage]

Quote from k4pdm - "Their advertising could stress how "real" hams
looking for top performance go for hardware filtering and real knobs, not
menus."
So, if you consider rigs with state-of-the-art DSP circuitry, menus or
computer driven. etc. as the going forward look  in amateur radio
equipment verses hardware filtering/real knobs(?), Kenwood advertising
should single you out as an "unreal" ham, "not" real ham, ham "lite",
etc. I'm sure Kenwood's advertising would win awards for that ad
campaign.

It's nice to get nostalgic but that rig and its design technology has run
its course. Like so many other rigs, it just lives on in the used market
kingdom.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:25:42 -0800 (PST) Paul Manuel <k4pdm at yahoo.com>
writes:
> 
> --- peter A Markavage <manualman at juno.com> wrote:
>  I guess if you two guys could find several thousand more buyers, 
> with
> > money up front, you could petition Kenwood to build you one. But, 
> to
> > retool back up for a model intro'd in 1986 would be economic folly 
> and
> > embarrassing to them. 
> 
> Well, they wouldn't CALL it an 850, of course, and wouldn't be 
> EXACTLY the
> same. Their advertising could stress how "real" hams looking for 
> top
> performance go for hardware filtering and real knobs, not menus. 
> Maybe it
> could be a TS-970SAT? Of course, it would probably have to sell for 
> $5000
> or so since it is hardware-intensive...which makes the used 850s 
> look that
> much better (hi hi!)
> 73,
> Paul K4PDM