"Gary KW4Z" wrote in message
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I have to replace a rig that was stolen and I'm down to four radios to
choose from. I haven't been able to get to a dealer yet to set down and
actually try them out but have narrowed my choices down to four with
preference of those down to two. If anyone owns some or all of the radios
mentioned here I would greatly appreciate your input and experience with
their operation. The two that I am closest to getting is:

Kenwood TS-2000 or the ICOM IC-746PRO. I do realize that the 746PRO does
not have 440MHz like the TS-2000. I like the IC7000 but such a small
radio
that they fit so much into it with using so few knobs and buttons on front
that I'm concerned about the learning curve with that one. I'm naturally
concerned about durability, receive quality and the ability to reduce
interference and pull out the weak signals in a crowd or busy band.

Right now the Icom 746PRO has the incentives on it's side with not only
rebates, coupons and a free Power Supply.

I appreciate your input concerning these radios.

I made the same decision a few months back. The ts2000 will do many things
the Icom will not . The Icom has a beter receiver for the low bands. I
think the ts480 requires extra filters to be bought if you want them where
the others have them ( or really the electronic equivelent except beter) .
I did not care about all the thinks you can do with the ts2000 and wanted a
good HF receiver so I went with the Icom 746pro. I do weak signal vhf and
uhf and have seperate rigs for those bands so not haveing the 440 band was
not big deal to me.
There does seem to be some problems with the back light on the display of
the Icom so if you go with that rig run the display brightness full on or
full off.