I'm not sure which one is done at the factory but I think it is a diode mod
that a couple people I know did.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: all mode dual band rigs
> Is this the diode mod or something else?
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
>
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, John Miller
> wrote:
>
>> Don't forget though, there's a mod for the TS-2000, I believe it was
>> already
>> done at the factory on the newer ones, to greatly increase the receiver
>> sensitivity on UHF and VHf on the TS-2000. I know someone who did the mod
>> and said it's a night and day difference and someone told me that's
>> already
>> done on TS-2000's made from mid last summer on, like mine though I can't
>> compare it with anything having nothing to compare it with than the 706
>> and
>> I know how those results would stack up. way in favor of the TS-2000
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: all mode dual band rigs
>>
>>
>>> Hi Pat.
>>>
>>> I have to disagree strongly with you on this. If you are really
>>> interested
>>> in weak signal work, the TS790A has considerably better receiver
>>> sensitivity than the TS2000S. If your interest in SSB is only casual,
>>> then
>>> go for the TS2000S.
>>>
>>> I can say this because I have both radios side by side and I've made the
>>> comparisons, and frankly the TS790A is a better rig. Maybe not as
>>> versatile as the TS2000S, but if the objective is weak signal work on 2
>>> meters or 70 cm, the TS790A is pretty hard to beat, especially if you
>>> use
>>> it to drive an amplifier like the Mirage amps that are designed for a 45
>>> watt drive and a large amount of power out. Even though I have the
>>> TS2000S, I've never been sorry for an instant that I bought the Kenwood
>>> TS790A. It is an outstanding radio, and quite accessible.
>>>
>>> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 10:42 PM 6/26/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>>>> I'd just look for a TS-2000 myself or an IC-706 or IC-7000 personally
>>>> which
>>>> is what a lot of people do, an all mode duel band radio is a lot, the
>>>> only
>>>> one I know of currently made is well over a grand and used ones, as
>>>> were
>>>> said, not cheap.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Pat Gormley" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:37 PM
>>>> Subject: all mode dual band rigs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Frankly bobby an all-mode dual band rigs cost new at least a thousand
>>>>> =
>>>>> and used probably run $500. I'm talking about rigs like the Kenwood
>>>>> 790 =
>>>>> which is probably the most accessible of the bunch. Frankly you can
>>>>> do
>>>>> =
>>>>> better with a ts2000 than you would if you were just to buy those 2 =
>>>>> bands.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
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