[CQ-Contest] New Contesting Radio?

[Pete Smith]

At 08:27 PM 4/5/02 +0100, K0HB wrote:
>Unfortunately is still "looks like a TenTec"

Yeah, but ... It looks as if they have clearly given ergonomics a lot more 
thought than Yaesu et al.  Look where the knobs are -- no important 
controls on little bitty knobs along the bottom edge of the radio where you 
almost need tweezers to get at them.  No letting the shape of the previous 
panel casting drive the new control layout...

Also, cascading narrow crystal filters in the first IF with IF DSP further 
back sure makes sense to this layman, compared to wide roofing filters with 
the sharpness at the back end -- if it works as described, there may be a 
lot of MPs and Mark V's on the used market.