Ray may have hit on something.... Out with the old, in with the new. During a band-opening pile-up on 20 meters a week or so ago, after I got through to the difficult African station. I was still on frequency and heard a W9 announce to the
DX that he was running an old TS-520. I guess that does not comport with the "new thinking"....... maybe.
Jeep K3HVG