I completely agree with you on the TS-830 and TS-850 - both excellent rigs and nothing Kenwood has done since comes close. I kind of liked the TS-480 but eventually sold it. I would think the TS-590 might be pretty good. It will be interesting though to see what the price comes out as.
Doug -- KØDXV On 7/2/2010 4:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Let's see, now. While Yaesu was making FT-1000s, 9000s, and now 5000s; and > ICOM was making 7800, 7600 and 7700; Kenwood was selling its unimpressive > TS-2000. Now, we're supposed to believe that they've suddenly got religion > and are challenging the K3? Yeah, right. And, even if they actually made a > radio that has decent specs, does anyone really want to deal with Kenwood > customer service? In my opinion, the best radios Kenwood ever made were > the TS-830 and TS-850. Then, it stopped caring. And, so did I...about > Kenwood products, anyway. > > Rob K6RB > >> https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0Bw6A6YLa6L3rZjhjNWRiMGUtODZiMi00OWM3LTljYmItNWM3ODY2YWU0YjVi&hl=en&authkey=CLe25YAE >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
