If I believe the ample info available from the ham community, the Kenwood, while offering a lot of polish, is lacking in what I'd call essential performance. At the core, it's receiver does not do as well as the K2 (or K3 presumably) at handling the dynamics of the current HF bands and doesn't do as well at producing clean, pleasing audio. In exchange for giving up that basic solid receiver performance, you get a lot more features that allow the rig to do things the K2 cannot.
Of course, that does not negate the validity of your point. Yes, the Asian rigs do offer features not available from Elecraft and to many hams, their eye-candy appeal is too good to pass up, provided you can check your critical ear and high standards at the door. 73 Jim & all! - Keith KD1E - - K2 5411 - -----Original Message----- ... As far as price goes, you need to consider that the Kenwood TS-480SAT has all the features the K2 has, PLUS general coverage receive, PLUS 6M. It also comes standards with the remoteable control head. And it's available right now for less than 1 kilobuck. 73, Jim KM5M _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
