[Kenwood] Fw: TS 480 SAT

[Reinaldo Leandro]

Usually the CQ/DL reviews are very objective; unfortunately my knowledge of
the German language is very poor.

If you can add a few more words that will be wonderful.

73

Reinaldo, YV5AMH



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[mailto:kenwood-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ekki Plicht
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 7:56 PM
To: kenwood at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Kenwood] Fw: TS 480 SAT

On Monday 21 February 2005 00:42, Martin Jay wrote:
> Is it possible that no one has a TS-480 SAT ? I am just looking for any
> input from a user of this rig. I thought that this was the Kenwood Net. I
> am looking forward to some first hand info on it. Tnx, and 73's.

I work in a ham radio store in Germany, we sell Yaesu, Icom and Kenwood.
Since the TS-480 has been introduced I have been playing with it casually
and 
sold it to several customers.
>From my own little tests I was very impressed with the receiver and the 
overall feel of the radio. The DSP is excellent. The Rx is comparable in 
sensitivity and selectivity to large desktop rigs. From two customers whose 
input I value I have heard excellent results. One uses it in RTTY contests 
and really loves it.
The test in the German magazine cq/DL was very favorable in respect of 
receiver figures, if you are interested I can post some of these figures 
tomorrow evening.

All in all it's a very impressive rig with an excellent price/performance 
ratio (after the prices have been lowered by 30% after introduction). I have

used an Icom IC-706MkII and G) in my car for many years now and love it. But

I think about replacing it with the TS-480, the HF rx outperforms the 706 
easily, and I don't need VHF/UHF.

73,
Ekki, DF4OR
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