This is from www.w8ji.com
http://www.w8ji.com/transmitter_splatter.htm
Radios
Some modern radios are especially poor, even when operated at rated power
levels. For example, the TS-2000 and IC-756 series radios are particularly bad
on 160 meters. I can hear some of these radios, when signals are strong,
producing weak spurious emissions (splatter) 10-20 kHz away from the operating
frequency. If you look at ARRL test reports of transmitters, you will see many
radios are just a bit above class-C performance levels. (Remember the ARRL uses
dB below PEP, which improves results by 6 dB compared to commercial test
methods.)
IM3 levels of -30 dB are really very poor. An old KWM2 I tested was -47 dB
using
ARRL standards. Compared to something like an IC-756, the Collins had about 50
times LESS power in total adjacent channel distortion products!
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Atleast I wouldn´t buy a radio that gets words like this.
73 Jim SM2EKM
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John Geiger wrote:
> There were some negative reviews on eham.net based solely on the appearance
> of the radio. Personally, I like the appearance of the TS2000.
>
> 73s John NE0P
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat@copper.net>
>
>>The negative reviews came from people who have operated one and have
>>not been impressed. Nobody can "review" a radio they have never
>>operated,
>
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