[Kenwood] kenwood 2000 and 480

[Fern]

Hi Joe and the group. Why in the world would anyone want to get audio 
response below 300 hz? The very bottom end does nothing for improvement of 
communications but rather does waste a lot of power there where it could be 
better used elsewhere.  The telco companies do not use anything that low and 
yet the audio response on long distance phone calls is great. What makes a 
ssb radio talk properly is first using a great dynamic microphone and next 
is making sure that the carrier oscillators (both lsb and usb) are set 
properly. 73 and have a great holiday.     Fern


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe" <n3ain at hotmail.com>
To: <kenwood at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:20 AM
Subject: [Kenwood] kenwood 2000 and 480


> 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 me
>
> nus 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.
>