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Id like some help looking for a pair of 2 meter 70 cm radios,pre heavy menu driven

I used to sell all of them. Yaesu was the best. Alinco was second best. Icom was ok too. Kenwood was worst in terms of having problems and failing to address those problems.
Speaking mostly of VHF/UHF radios, but HF was similar with Yaesu being far and away the best, Icom being second and Kenwood had its long time fans who wouldn't even look at anything else, no matter what.
I'm sure things have changed in the intervening 20+ years.

Pre-1990s, Kenwood-Trio had good stuff. I have several '70s Kenwood, HF, VHF and UHF rigs and like them a lot. I also really like the Kenwood commercial gear and have quite a few of those: VHF TK-280, 290, 780s; UHF TK-380, 390, 880s; 900 MHz TK-481s and 981s.

Never really been a fan of dual band radios, but I do have a few. If I were you I would look for an Alinco DR-605T. I have two of them and like them. I also have a DR-570 and like that one, too.
 
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SIX-SHOOTER said:
“I Can Only Monitor” MY Call Sign in the Pileups and that’s AWESOME. LOL I’ll take that Every Day over a POS Yaesu.

SIX-SHOOTER
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i got 1 pos yaesu you need badly so you can say your in the game hahaHAHA
 
Rwb said:
i got 1 pos yaesu you need badly so you can say your in the game hahaHAHA
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There is not even One Yaesu radio I would own if it was FREE if I am required to keep and use it.Unless I can use it for a Target at the Range which would be a BLAST I must say. Watching it fly all over the place might be as much fun as talking on a Real Amateur Radio because I’d known that it would never be on the air by anyone and that would be AWESOME.

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yes but at the moment im stuck with a 6 month old radio that dont work but yaesu says its ok.think its time to go to the dumpster with that radio
I mainly want a simple dual band no menu radio for my pickup with a squelch knob
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You still got the address to my trash can, right? Send it there. Hahaha
 
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TheRealPorkchop said:
Nope. I’m straightening my act up and not doing those evil and sinful things anymore.
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i got bad habit,some places ask for my phone number i give em the number to a bar n grill in west kansas i used to eat at when i used to haul salt.
 
I only had one yaesu failure and that was due to lightning.. I've always played with Yaesu and Kenwood and had good luck I guess. Nothing against Icom either.. just not as versed with the brand.

At the old company i worked for they used vertex (yaesu) commercial HTs. I saw them abused severely and continuously perform. They only thing commercially speaking that I would prefer for durability would be Motorola. We parked a 83 Thunderbird on a Radius P50 HT on concrete.. it didn't even break a sweat.
 
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Id like a good condition tw 4100a kenwood with toneboard
Got to be some around
 
Thing is with pre-menu Yaesus is that they're getting long in the tooth. The FT-5200/5100 series is nearing 30 years old and suffer from display bulb burnout and other assorted issues. I replaced the PA modules in the '5100s I had a couple of times. The FT-8100 I have is over 20 years old and so far hasn't developed any issues.

I had a Kenwood TM-V7A that was a bit older than the '8100 and was heavily menu driven. It apparently had very tinny TX audio and the display would blind me at night when set to be readable in daylight and to dim it was a several step process through the menus each time when it should have been a single button push.

I have two Alinco DR-635 models and though I had the one at least ten years it's still quirky for me to use. None of them ar perfect.
 
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Thing is with pre-menu Yaesus is that they're getting long in the tooth. The FT-5200/5100 series is nearing 30 years old and suffer from display bulb burnout and other assorted issues. I replaced the PA modules in the '5100s I had a couple of times. The FT-8100 I have is over 20 years old and so far hasn't developed any issues.

I had a Kenwood TM-V7A that was a bit older than the '8100 and was heavily menu driven. It apparently had very tinny TX audio and the display would blind me at night when set to be readable in daylight and to dim it was a several step process through the menus each time when it should have been a single button push.

I have two Alinco DR-635 models and though I had the one at least ten years it's still quirky for me to use. None of them ar perfect.
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no none are perfect but as modern as technology is none shine as far as capabilitys go.
Plus 1 of my 7250s is at yaesu again.it simply dont work but they say it is working.
The radio is a lemon and how they are handling it under warrenty has ended me buying another yaesu product.
Your machine no matter the machine is no better than the service behind it
 
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