you can't go wrong with a heil mike.
Barb [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: TS 2000


> Hi Walt,
>
> I like  the TS 2000 a lot and more about it in a moment. First the TM 231A
> is an old 2 meter FM mobile 50 watts out.  I bought mine used about 10
years
> ago and used it for packet but also a few times on FM so I know the mic
was
> interchangable with the one I use on the 430.
>
> My main mic was a MC-80  desk mike which works on all my Kenwood stuff.
>
> Kenwood did offer a Heil Gold Line desk mic with any HF rig but I think it
> was to end at the end of October.  It may have been extended and I beleive
> that they are offering $250 off the TS 2000 until the end of the year.
I've
> used the  Heil mic a few times and get good audio reports.
>
> The  TS 2000 has about 50 buttons and i only have 10 fingers.  It all
seems
> to be laid out pretty logically and it didn't take me long to find my way
> around.
>
> I haven't had it all that long and still am learning the ropes.  The huge
> number of menu options can be daunting  but they seem to be laid out
> systematicly.   And most I will never touch anyway.  Others will be set
once
> and forgotten.  The auto tuner works like a dream and if it can't tune
will
> send "swr" in cw.  Modes are announced via a cw letter:  "L" for lsb "f"
for
> fm, etc.
>
> Most of my work is HF and the DSP filtering is easy to use.  So is setting
> power level.  It beeps at 100 w and at the low of 5 watts.  If you lose
> track of power setting, just turn knob all the way up till it beeps (100
w)
> and then down a click at a time (5 watt increments) till you get wher you
> want.  Or turn it all the way down till it beeps at 5 watts and then turn
it
> back up a five watt click at a time  till you get where you want.
>
> Sorry this went so long.  Maybe I didn't tell you anything really
important
> to you.  I like this rig a lot but still  have along way to go to use it
to
> it's best.  On last weeks CQWW CW contest I worked my first ever 5R.  had
to
> crank the bandwidth down to 100 hz to  get him clear.  Could have never
done
> it with the 500 hz filter in the 430.
>
> 73 de Steve KW3A  [log in to unmask]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walt Sebastian" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:33 AM
> Subject: TS 2000
>
>
> > Hi Steve,
> > I am thinking strongly about getting the Kenwood TS 2000.  I was
wondering
> > what your opinion of the accessibility of the rig.  I have read several
> > articles on it and and according to them, if it isn't accessible, there
is
> > usually a work around.  It is nice that Kenwood has mikes that are
> > interchangable.  Refresh my memory, what is the TM 231a?  Also, what
mikes
> > do you have.  I understand the TS 2000 comes with a hand mike and
Kenwood
> > will send a desk mike to you when you send in a coupon or something to
> that
> > effect, unless it has been discontinued.  Thanks and 73.
> > Walt and GEB dog Opus
> > WA4QXT
> > New London CT
> > mailto: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >