In message <841848.50172.qm@web36204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, steve d
<kc8qvo@yahoo.com> writes
>Hi All, I figured I would ask the group what they thought of a few rigs.
>
> First: do any of you have experience with the FT-2000? How about the
>FT-2000 with the Mu-tune units?
>
> Next: the Ten Tec Orion II. I have heard this is the king of low
>band operating. However, a friend of mine had either the I or II (cant
>remember now) and sent it back because it was too complicated.
>
> Any thoughts from those that have used either, or both and can
>compare? The FT-2000 seems like the most economical route at about
>$2500, but once you factor in the Mu-tune units youre right up to
>about what the Orion costs out of the box.
>
Steve,
Have you considered the software defined radios, like the new
Flex-5000A, or the older SDR-1000?
http://www.flex-radio.com/
Cost-wise they compare well with the top-of-the-range legacy radios like
the 2000 and Ten Tec, but performance-wise they well exceed those
radios, and changing/updating the DSP is simply a matter of downloading
new software. SDRs are future-proof -- once you have an SDR, you never
need to buy hardware again.
--
73
Ian, G3NRW
Using a SoftRock SDR on 30m: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/softrock40
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