Kenwood makes receivers as long as you buy a transmitter too. They
make a TS570D transceiver that has an excellent general coverage
receiver with DSP and was a bargain at under 900 dollars earlier in
the year. I have used it for ham radio and its passband tuning (DSP
slope tune) is very effective at cutting out adjacent signals. They
also make a TS870 and TS2000.

It seems manufacturers have cut funding for shortwave receivers and
are only upgrading their transceiver lines. Icom for instance with its
new million yen IC-7800 unit. I have been waiting for JRC or TenTec to
upgrade their top of the line receivers. TenTec's new Orion
transceiver sounds awesome but the dual filter (analog roofing and
digital IF) system is only available on the ham bands.

By the way, Icom has posted some information on that new transceiver
at their Japan web site. Its in Japanese so you have to use a
translator like Babelfish.

Jim

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:41:06 -0500,
(Activesignals.com) wrote:

Does Kenwood make a shortwave receiver anymore? I have a R-2000 a long
time ago and haven't heard of any new ones after the R-5000.