you wouldn't be disappointed with the TS-2000 I don't think. I know I'm very 
happy with mine and glad I bought it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CHRISTOPHER SCHULTE" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: 746PRO


> Hmm, this makes me wonder if I really want to spend the cash on the TS2000
> in april when I read something like that.
>
> I do like contesting, and I like the idea of working on six meters and two
> meters sideband and cw.  I'd rather have the added seventy cm band as 
> well,
> but if the recieve is that much better on the Icom, then I might just
> sacrafice some accessibility and one band for better performance overall 
> and
> even a lower price tag.
>
> Chris, w8cjs
> Check out my web site,
> http://mysite.verizon.net/w8cjs
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:19 PM
> Subject: Re: 746PRO
>
>
>> Hi Pat.
>>
>> I've never had an Icom IC746Pro, but I can absolutely echo your comments
>> on
>> the TS2000S.  Were it not for the accessibility aspects of the radio, I
>> would have given up on it because of the receiver shortcomings probably 
>> at
>> least a year ago.  I'm getting kind of concerned that Kenwood doesn't 
>> seem
>> to really be doing much of anything with weak signal VHF/UHf or with high
>> end HF transceiver design, which is starting to make me wonder if ayear 
>> or
>> three down the road they will just up and announce that they are getting
>> out of ham radio, or at least confining their work to 2 meter and 70 cm
>> mobiles and portables.  Much as I dislike Yaesu, I find that there is a
>> lot
>> more innovation coming out of Icom and Yaesu than I see coming out of
>> Kenwood, particularly with respect to HF.  Really, the only kind of 
>> recent
>> product for Kenwood outside of VHF/UHF FM has been the TS480 series
>> radios.
>>
>> Maybe it is just me, but I feel that Kenwood had some truly great pieces
>> of
>> equipment in days gone by, and they are falling way short of the
>> performance they used to design into their stuff.
>>
>> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>>
>>
>> At 07:37 PM 1/27/2008 -0600, you wrote:
>>>Hi Keith,
>>>I have been busy and unable to respond to your question.  I had a
>>>TS2000 which I have replaced with a 746PRO.  I agree with all that
>>>has been said.  The PRO is less accessible than the 2000 - on its
>>>side, the Icom has what Icom calls triple register stacking - each
>>>band allows three keystrokes when you switch to it.  So, you can
>>>configure a 75 meter SSB setting, a CW setting and perhaps an AM
>>>setting.  Then you could "tab" through those settings and reach the
>>>desired mode or filter setting you would prefer.  The preset
>>>arrangement makes the receiver a bit easier to use.  And the filter
>>>settings are actually not hard to use.  As several people have said,
>>>many of the menu items can be set and mainly forgotten so a bit of
>>>initial help would be of benefit.
>>>Bottom line, however is that the receiver, in my opinion is far and
>>>away better than the Kenwood.  What troubled me about the Kenwood was
>>>that the receiver had a rushy, watery synthesizer sound which is
>>>absolutely missing on the Icom, whose receiver really performs.
>>>Hope this doesn't muddy your decision making!!
>>>Pat, K9JAu At 03:10 AM 1/26/2008, you wrote:
>>> >Hello,
>>> >
>>> >     I'd like to hear from anyone who has a 746PRO.  How do you like 
>>> > it,
>>> >and how accessible are the various functions?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Louis Kim Kline
>> A.R.S. K2LKK
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