The antenna tuner in the radio is reasonable, like all the current internal 
tuners that use relays, it will adjust antennas that are close but if it's 
way off, no good. You'd just have to try it, if it's not enough, LDG makes a 
great line of external auto tuners. You can set power and mic gain and stuff 
by counting clicks, it will beep at the highest and lowest setting and stay 
there, in other words, you get it on low power and keep turning the dial 
toward low power it will stay there and keep beeping while you turn it, you 
have to turn it the other way to get the power up, PL tones and other 
settings are the same way. If you get the info from 
www.icanworkthisthing.com and just go over it while you use the radio, 
you'll be in good shape. I use the cross band repeat on the radio a bit in 
the summer months, it's pretty good. You set it around 20 or 25 watts, it 
will do it all day. I've done that with special events when we had too much 
traffic on 2 meters, I put the TS-2000 on cross band so I can do packet 
demonstrations and put the go kit radio on 440 to do it and the TS-2000 will 
run like that all day long and never even break a sweat, and with the packet 
activity around here, that's saying a heck of a lot.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Minor" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:11 PM
Subject: Looking for info on the TS-2000X


> Hi.
>
> I've just joined this list, and I hope to be able to give what little
> information I know.  My name is Kevin Minor, and I've been a ham since
> February of 1982.  I got my Extra class license in 1986.  I currently 
> enjoy
> working 2 meters and 440 Mhz.  I hope to get a low band rig soon, and I've
> decided on the TS-2000X.  With this in mind, I have several questions 
> about
> it.
>
> How good is the antenna tuner in the radio?  I live in an apartment, and I
> don't have a lot of room for an antenna.  I'd like to find one that will
> work most of the bands, so with my setup I plan on using the tuner a lot.
>
> I understand that the optional speech synthesizer will announce most
> functions on the radio, including menus.  Will it announce such things as
> power level and SWR?  If not, how do you set the power level.  I did call
> Kenwood, and they did tell me that the speech does not announce the PL 
> tone
> setting.  Is there an easy way to adjust this setting?  I work repeaters
> that require a tone.
>
> I'd like to use the radio with an HT.  I know that Kenwood has Skycommand,
> but from what I understand it requires eyes to get going.  If there is
> another way to control the radio, I'd like to know.  Also, how well does
> cross band repeat work?  I'd like to be able to use my dual band HT to 
> send
> a 440 signal to the TS-2000X, and talk to 2 meter repeaters.
>
> What controlling software is screen reader friendly with the TS-2000X.  I
> use Jaws 10, and I'd like to be able to do such things as copy memory
> contents to the PC as a backup, and set up some user specific control of 
> the
> DSP functions.
>
> That's all the questions I can think of.  I'd like to find audible 
> tutorials
> on the radio, and I understand that Handihams has them.  Where do I find
> these?  I like to listen to these types of things before I get the 
> equipment
> in order to learn what I can, plus it tells me about the features of the
> radio.
>
> That's it from me.  Sorry about the long message, but I wanted to get as
> manhy questions as I can think of as possible.
>
> 73
> Kevin Minor, N8EGA
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