I wish I had known that before I flushed $800.00 out of my wallet!I wish i had it now instead of the POS FT-857D I have now.
I wish I had known that before I flushed $800.00 out of my wallet!
Whew! It is going to be mobile only. My Icom IC-746 is my prime base rig. My Kenwood, or my other Yaesu are on standby.It is great in the mobile but not on a yagi at 40+ feet or on a longwire a couple hundred feet long.
My big issue was the receiver under VERY strong signal conditions both in band and out of band. The longwave band was peppered by AM broadcast stations unless you turned tbe attenuator on and the adjacent freq. rejection was poor. Audio DSP is no substitute for RF filtering. My Kenwood TS-820S far outperforms it on adjacent frequency QRM and splatter.
I had coffee with a couple of local club members recently. Apparently they had both owned a TS-520, and one had a TS-820 as well. They both commented about how nice the receive was on the old Kenwood hybrids, and I concurred, since I have a 520 and an 830. They told me the only reason they went to more modern gear (they both run Ten-Tec Omni 7's) was for rig control with logging programs like HRD. Both of them said the Kenwood's receivers worked every bit as well as their new stuff.
That being said, I always remembered you speaking fondly of the receive on the IC-735 and the fact that it was a triple conversion receiver. Band pass tuning is a sweet thing to have, too! You can do CAT control with it, and those CI-V adaptes (clones) are usually only around 15-20 bucks these days. Could be a fun rig to try just for fun... if the right deal came around.
73,
Brett
I see one for sale on QRZ for $400.Cool. It was indeed a fine rig. I wish i had it now instead of the POS FT-857D I have now. I think it is a POS because of the receiver. It overloads easily and the IC-735 was triple conversion and had a front end solid as a brick. Thanks Brett.