I love my TS-2000! But if I had the money to spend, honestly, I'd buy a Yaesu FT-2000. But my TS-2000 is by far the best HF I've owned so far... It has the IF DSP filtering on it, and mine has been used in a couple of contests with a lot of time operating on it without any trouble at all. I've never had any trouble with hearing other stations. Out of all of the radios I've owned or operated, I'd give the TS-2000 a very high score. I would like to use a FT-2000 but after using the FT-950, I'd say the FT-2000 might be a better HF. But the kenwood has more features.
By the way, AL7AN, I'd really like to have a QSO with you one day and exchange reports. I very much would love to have worked your country. Qatar escapes me.
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The Kenwood TS 2000 is the best deal available for a "do it all" radio.
As already mentioned, The cross band feature, which also includes the ability to cross band from HF to UHF is worth it alone.
If a person could have but one radio, The TS 2000 IS that radio!
Around 1100 used to 1500 dollars US new.
The TS 2000 is designed to operate with the internal preamp ON for VHF/UHF. I think that is why some people seem to think it has receive sensitivity problems. It does NOT have receive sensitivity troubles........
However, For a CONTEST quality HF radio? You would be further off with something like a good used Icom 756PRO series in the same price range.
I hate to disagree with you but they do seem have receive sensitivity problems. I've owned both and compared to an FT-847 the TS-2000 is kind of deaf on VHF/UHF
If you are interested in Satellite or VHF/UHF weak signal work I would take an FT-847 hands down! over a TS-2000. Like I mentioned before I have owed them both and the FT-847's VHF/UHF receiver seems much better.
On the other had a stock TS-2000 is slightly better then the FT-847 on HF. But this easily correctable with a filter upgrade or a simple mod. Unfortunately most of the time used FT-847 sell for more then used TS-2000.. So unless you really need VHF/UHF SSB or satellite rig you could get away a lot cheaper buying a dedicated HF rig.
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As the owner of both the FT-2000 and the TS-2000 I find little difference in the receivers both are good. The FT has more to pull stuff out of the mud but it hears about the same. If I could only have one the FT would be the keeper, but that said for the money the TS is one hell of a radio.
I use mine for digital,UHF and VHF. The duel receivers is a great feature and lets me listen to 6m or 2m while doing pks31 or rtty. The TS 2000 will do more then any radio out there right now. No its not as good as a 7800 but at $1614.00 NEW its a great buy.
Oh btw I would like a K3 but kids are still going to school so that one will have to wait.
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Thank you very much my friend, you been very helpful, I connected it to the power supply but not yet, connected it to the antenna, I will have small operation in my stomach early in the morning, when I get released from Hospital, I will try to connect it.
I've had three of them. Every one of them suffered from a noisey HF receiver. The symptom was very high white noise in the background with no antenna connected.
Yes after an antenna was connected the signals would overcome the noise and it became tolerable. I did the band-pass diode mod to two of them and it really does make a difference. The background white noise dropped off quite a bit.
For versatility this radio is second to none. That is it's major selling point. It is the best shack-in-a-box made.
The HF noise and the birdie on 436.800 (sorry Kenwood there is NO excuse for having an S-9 plus signal on a major downlink frequency of satellites), finally convinced me to go back to an FT-847 for sats, and a different radio for HF.
I have owned my TS2000 since 2004 and have used it extensively on HF and VHF/UHF. For a while I was using the main band to run an Echolink node on 146.550 and am currently using the sub band for APRS.
Since I just moved to a new QTH I only have a 2 meter vertical set up so I operate through the club repeater on the main and APRS on the sub band. Once I get a nice day I will get all of my antennas back up. Prior to moving though I was using the rig pretty much on 144 and 432 MHz SSB & CW and it performs well. I only really operated 40 and 20 meters other than contests but overall am very satisfied with this rig. If I had to I would buy another one only this time the TS2000X model with 1.2 GHz in it.
Thank you very much my friend, you been very helpful, I connected it to the power supply but not yet, connected it to the antenna, I will have small operation in my stomach early in the morning, when I get released from Hospital, I will try to connect it.
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