: I'm just looking for the best rig for CW.

Pete,
I too run only CW. I've run CW only since my first license in '72. Been
Extra now for 30 years, since '74.

The transmitter is never the issue. Any rig with a clean output waveform
that supplies your required power level, 100 W, will be a perfectly
satisfactory transmitter. The key is the receiver. I think that the Yaesu
rigs have the best RX in the world, and am saving pennies and dimes to buy
the new FT-1000 MP Field.

Apparently I am not the only man who thinks so. Johan Sebastian Bach
wrote a beautiful solo about this very idea. My wife and I had it sung at
our wedding back in 1967:

Yaesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

VY 73 DE N6UF,
Jim