[CQ-Contest] The great Kenwood debate

[Rajiv Dewan, N2RD]

A couple of Daytons ago, I was staying at the same hotel as the Kenwood 
team and they mentioned that the designer of the 850/950 series of 
radios has passed away.

Regards,
Rajiv Dewan, N2RD

On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 09:35 PM, Kelly Taylor wrote:

> All this talk of the TS 570 vs. TS 850 (not even a contest in my book, 
> in
> favour of the 850) raises a wider question: are ANY of Kenwood's 
> current
> production radios competition grade?
>
> At the risk of inflaming die-hard Kenwood fans, my guess is no. The 
> 870 got
> bad reviews on its IF DSP (basically high cut in one IF and low cut in
> another IF) that lets signals into the AGC loop even if the second IF
> filtering eliminates them. (Similar beef as with the 570.) The last I 
> read
> (please, correct me if I'm wrong), you could not install analog 
> filters, or
> if you could, you could only install one. Choose wisely, I guess.
>
> The TS 2000 is very neat, but does it count as competition grade? 
> Maybe if
> you're into satellite, but I have to think all that frequency agility 
> must
> have a price somewhere.
>
> And we know where the contest community stands on the 570.
>
> The 950 is a very nice radio, but it's not made anymore.
>
> Don't get me wrong. I love my 850. But did Kenwood start turning its 
> back on
> contesters after the 850? Or was it after the 940?
>
> 73, kelly
> ve4xt
>
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