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I was quite excited about the TS-2000 until I visited the Kenwood booth
while at Dayton this past March. My biggest issue with the TS-2000 is
that,
although they call it "all-band, all mode," it is aimed at the US market

where 222-225MHz is a PRIMARY allocation; they did not build this band
into
the radio (TX). I do not understand how the ARRL / QST advertizing
department, or anyone else for that matter, can let them falsely
advertize
this radio as all mode / all band in our market (and I am a life member
of
that organization that generally supports their activities) - guess it
is
the advertizing dollar revenue that is all-important in this case. But
the
(not so) funny part was the response the representative for Kenwood gave
me
at Dayton: "Nobody uses that band, so why are you so concerned over
it's
absense?." That did not go over well with our 222 users group that all

stood there and heard such a response. A number of us clobbered them
pretty
hard on this issue of the 222 band. Now, if it is true that the
sub-receiver will not do modes which require carrier regeneration asthe
brochure on the web site indicates (CW, SSB, etc.) this will be a pretty

useless radio for Phase 3D work as well. By the way, at Dayton, we were

erroneously told that the sub-receiver would do all modes as well.
Perhaps
the rep was simply mis-informed.....

Can't wait for my 817 (#1 in line at AES!); in no hurry to check out the

TS-2000 - but I will join the users group to watch the comments unfold.

k9qi

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