Last Tokio Ham Fair, 22 and 23 august 2009 Kenwood was presenting a new transceiver at their stand. It looks like a refurbished TS-570 but insiders explain that it is a new high-end rig. More like a K3. Very interesting! It will be introduced in 2010. Here I found a short clip of the introduction.
Since I swapped my Icom 910H for a Kenwood TS-850, I did lose my 2m/70cm rig. And in a earlier post I reported a fried Yaesu FT817. I’m not that sad about not having anything to transmit on 2/70. I hardly ever use these frequenties. Not my thing. But…. I’m still doing the morsecode course [...]
Yesterday I’ve swapped the capacitors of my TS-850 CAR-board. It was not a very difficult job, but men, what are those smd-parts tiny! I have to get another iron for this little stuff. Anyway, the leaking capacitors are replaced. No damage to the circuit board underneath the capacitors was discovered. Only the green layer was [...]
For years this radio has been my dream. I already did own a Kenwood TS-450SAT. A very nice radio. But the other day I saw a TS-850SAT on internet for sale. In the corner of the shack was a Icom 910H which I never used. I traded the Icom in for the Kenwood TS-850SAT. A [...]
My main HF rig is still the good old Kenwood TS-450SAT. I absolutely love this rig! It looks beautiful, it sounds beautiful and it works great. The most funny about this rig is, everyone who owned one in the past and see it again on my desk, sighs and says: “I should never never never [...]
I’ve picked up my Yaesu FT817 from the shop the other day. They hadn’t good news for me. After 2,5 hours of working the engineer managed to get it back to life. Well, it received. Transmitting still was broke. It seems that the feds are broken too. I’ve picked it up because the bill was [...]
It is a very sad sad day. My first rig, a Yeasu FT-817, is broken. The other day I wanted to turn it on, but it was dead. Shaking the rig gave me all weird noises, so I opened it. Seems that there was an exploded elco in it. All kind of lose smd pieces [...]
Some while ago I bought a beautiful second hand Icom 910H. Very nice radio to work with! Only one little problem: to work some repeaters over here in The Netherlands, you have to send a CTCSS-tone. Of course this rig is capable of sending a CTCSS-tone. But….. The original configuration for Europe is sending only [...]
I was looking for a new radio for a while. For 2m and 70cm I used my good old Yeasu FT-817. Actually my first radio. A perfect radio for mobile and backpack use, but not for the QTH. For in the shack I wanted something a little bigger, multiband capabilities and the most important: more [...]