[Kenwood] Discussion With Kenwood Rep Regarding Future HF Rigs

[John Geiger]

Of course Icom also has problems that show up later:

Motor bandpass filter switch-701, 720
Trimmer caps going bad-745, 751, 761, 765, 271, 471,
Feedthrough Islets on the PC board-211, 245
RAM battery dying, requiring trip to Icom-751, 745
Display getting blue lines-756

73s John NE0P

--- Paul Manuel <k4pdm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Esterson/Pinsky <tiavi at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> > You're right, it is a great transceiver for the
> price. But I can't
> > totally agree with the statement that Kenwood has
> great quality
> >control. 
> 
> Yes, but as far as I know (correct me if I am wrong)
> the widespread
> Kenwood problems usually show up after months or
> years of use. ICOM and
> Yaesu have been releasing many radios with problems
> out-of-the-box.
> 73,
> Paul K4PDM 
> 
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