I have got a ts-711 and you are right it is a nice radio.  What I like about 
it is that there are not to many bells and whistles on it.  Plus I am trying 
to get back in to SSB on 2 meters.  But I thought I would like to do some 
weak signal work on UFH as well.  If I had the 811 the learning curve would 
be just a little less.  Believe it this old man needs that as much as 
anything.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: Kenwood ts-811 wanted


Hi Bob.

For what it is worth, although it will cost you an arm and a leg, both the
voice board and the tone encoder for that radio are available from the
PIEXX Company.  It takes the TU5 tone board.  I looked into that a couple
of years ago when I was contemplating buying a Kenwood TS711/811 pair.  The
guy was asking $900 for the pair, and for the age I wasn't keen on spending
that much, especially because I suspected that he might have had the golden
screwdriver inside of it.  I decided that I was halfway to the price of a
Kenwood TS2000S (actually more than halfway time I bough two voice boards
and two tone encoders), so I took the plunge and bought the TS2000S
instead.  That is the last TS811A I've seen.

I had a Kenwood TS711A briefly a number of years ago, but the transmitter
was very messed up on it--it would only put out about 4 watts.  Nice radio,
otherwise, but since I noticed the power level problem immediately, I sent
it back and got my money back.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 05:10 AM 6/27/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>I am looking for a ts-811 and I have not had any luck on eBay so I =
>thought that I would give it a try here.  Of course the speech board =
>would be nice has well but I can all ways get one and put in it.  For =
>the ones that don't know and  are wondering the ts-811 is a UHF fix =
>station all mode radio. =20
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