[CQ-Contest] What rig to choose for a one-time fieldday

[XV4Y (Yan)]

Hi,

As a TS-590s owner, I second this.
TS-590s ergonomic is great. Default settings are not perfect but easy to adjust. The manual is well written and logically structured.
The trickiest part to use is the internal Voice Memory (DVK) if you buy the option. Once you understand it logics it works well, thought, and can be triggered via CAT commands in N1MM.
Thanks to the USB audio interface integrated, you can also use the Voice Memory feature of N1MM or another contest logger. It will be cheaper and will work perhaps better, but need the PC to be turned on anytime what I did not want.

The radio is compact but with all important settings and commands at direct access or just one button (i.e. push "KEY" then turn the control dial to set keyer speed).
It was a tremendous improvement from my past radio (a Yaesu FT-100) where just triggering the CW memory keyer required 4 buttons push!
It's easy to handle with a can be set vertically (for storage) or horizontally. Weight is just under 10Kg.
I think the designed it with DXpedition / FD in mind.

Regarding the price, it is simply the best value for the money you can get, particularly for a contest radio.
FT-1200dx as a bit more features (no USB audio but integrated DKV, TCXO, big screen and not real-time spectrum display) but is behind regarding filtering specially for CW.
FT-3000dx maybe be better feature-wise and performance-wise but is more expensive.
IC-7410 has also a bit more features but is more expensive and lacks contest grade filtering (option filters are expensive).

73,
Yan.
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Yannick DEVOS - XV4Y
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Le 29 nov. 2013 à 22:45, cq-contest-request at contesting.com a écrit :

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> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:46:43 +0700
> From: Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at gmail.com>
> To: "PA5MW, Mark" <pa5mw at home.nl>
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What rig to choose for a one-time fieldday
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> Winner TS-590 S
> 1.  Sit down and use it, no unusual knob turns, low learning time.
> 2.  Standard operation on these factors, simple.
> 3 and 3.  Small and cheap.
> 
> K3, can not sit down and use immediately, each radio has multiple
> programming and, one mistaken push in the middle of contest and THAT radio
> is DIFFERENT.
> Yaesu, all too big above FT 450d which is just not for this application.
> ICOM 7600, too quirky to learn quickly;  7100 too weird and is this a
> contest radio?
> Ten Tec Eagle... who knows? and ORION too big.
> 
> So, easy answer.  Good Luck, 73, Charly