On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:51:01PM -0600, AD5VJ Bob wrote:
> Would any of you guys consider any Kenwood model of Contest quality?
>
> I have not heard much abt them in regards to contesting.
I have used, and continue to use, Kenwood TS-850SATs for phone contesting.
They are getting to be old, though, so reliability may be a problem.
> I have an FT-1000MP MKV with the DVS-2 and FH-1 along with the narrow CW
> filter, external matching speaker and of course FT-29
> external power supply and it does a fantastic job of DX and Contesting, just
> dont understand why I dont hear anything about Kenwood
> anymore.
Icom and Yaesu have been aggressively courting the contester/DXer niche
markets. Kenwood has been courting other niche markets in ham radio of
late.
--
Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
kenharker@kenharker.com
http://www.kenharker.com/
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