I think the best radio you can get for what you're wanting to do is probably the
Kenwood ts2000 because of the 23cm band that you want unless you want to start
messing with transverters. Actually, it would be the ts2000x.
Tom
Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html