[Kenwood] kenwood 2000 and 480

[Joe]

Hi list. I have the kenwood 480 SAT and like it very much. I would also like to get the kenwood 2000 to see if I could get even warmer audio on transmit since the 480 on transmit is 2.4 wide but the 2000's audio is 3 KC. I also like the fact that the 2000 is a total shack in the box for both HF and VHF. The rig I'm currently using for VHF is the yaesu 736R. A nice rig but a bit large. I use the W4IHY eight band EQ for the transmit audio on the 480 witch does help but doesn't add much on the low end. I think this is because the 480's band width isn't wide enough to pass anything below about 300 cycles. Would the W4IHY EQ work better with the 2000 since its transmit audio is wider? or would that 600 KC not make much difference. Also. Would I be giving up anything as far as receive compared to the 480's receive on HF or the 2 meters receive on the yaesu 736R? The 2000 is also less blind user friendly compared to the 480 since the voice board in the 480 gives more detail about menus and such. I could still learn to use it however and that being the case, I would still like this rig. HRo has it on sail until the end of the year. If any of you out there have had experience with all three rigs I would appreciate an opinion. Thanks. Happy holidays and 73. n3ain.