Yaesu's Newest Transceiver The FTdx3000

Hm, no, not impressed. Design looks borrowed to me and colour monitor small.
I was really excited about the "unvailing" of this rig, but it became kind of an anti-
climax....

As far as the specifications and do-dah-s and the fingamajiggs, most new rigs
pretty much have the same high quality, only the options differ more or less....
That is, if you dont go to the real HiEnd stuff with all inclusive like IC-7800 and similars.

Note that every new tranceiver is "first in its class", "unike", "best receiver & tranceiver", "fastest DSP" and so on.
The salespitching in the advert is no exception and makes me belive about half of if

Just my quick toughts / 73 Chris

 

From what I learned at the show yesterday it's not a replacement for either of them. It it designed to fill a gap in the product lineup between the FT-2000 and FTDX-5000.

 

Looks a tiny bit like an Icom but not much. Photo for comparison:
http://www.ab4oj.com/icom/ic7600/images/7600_p3.jpg

Doesn't look, to me, like a higher-end radio. Makes more sense as replacement for FT-950 but we've been told this is not the case.

 

This is a YAESU. It will not look like an Icom, nor sound like an Icom. That is why hams buy them. Kenwood might as well give up. It takes them ten years to come out with a rig. The 590 is so bad might as well not even count it.

 

the guys were rumoured to be saying ftdx-3000 cost once approved by the fcc be about 4500 dollars...

 

No thanks Yaesu & Kenwood

No thanks Yaesu, Kenwood and Icom, I'll keep my Flex 3000 which has hundreds of more features at 1/4 of the price...

Coupled with a touch screen computer I can run rings around the plastic boxes from abroad...

Cheers

Ron W6OM

 

Being late to the party is not always bad. It's a good way to eliminate what doesn't work and produce a better product.

JMO
73 - Paul - N9GXA

 

Where is it made? For that matter where is the 5000 made?

 

The newly announced Flex Radio units (see their web site) look very interesting.

 

Given past Yaesu practice of putting replacement rigs in the "same box" (eg 757-890-900), and the single receiver, I'd say it's a good bet that this rig replaces the FT-950. Identical (within a tenth of an inch in depth, height and width the same, weight within 0.4 lb).

If so, and if it prices out in the same ballpark, it has winner written all over it.

73,
Bill

 

FYI,it's NOT a Kenwood it's a Yaesu & I'll take my ICOM 756 PROII receiver over most ANYTHING I have EVER operated.You have ZERO idea how to operate one if you think it's garbage!

 

Great looking machine.. Analog meter is a huge plus..The new Kenwood is going to be too expensive. If this thing comes in in the 2k range, the Icom 7410 is in trouble. The 3000 in the name scares me. If the XYL ever lets me onto the 3K field, it will be a K3/P3 combo for me.. I have the FT-950 and FT-450D. Yaesu does a good job in the radio/ per dollar catagory. I look forward to seeing one of these on the HRO bench

73
K4YND

 

With no built in power supply and no second receiver, it falls below the FT-2000. Should cost a lot less than the FT-2000.
Bob, AA8X

 

Rumors of a $4500 price tag seem inconsistent with the features of the radio. It would seem to me that it should fall between the FT 950 and the FT 2000 in price. IMO the FT 950 is a better radio than the TS 590 so if my pricing guess is correct it should kill whatever market there is for the TS 590 and seriously dent the IC 7410 market as well. If it comes in around $1600-$1800 and the initial reviews are good I could be interested.

 

Icom's RULE...period.