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Meta Morph wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:48:46 -0500, "W4LM"
wrote:

Discontinued! It is to be replaced by FT2000.


"Meta Morph" wrote in message
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I noticed Texas Towers removed the listing for the Yaesu Mark V
Field from their web page, and HRO only has demo units available. Is
the Mark V Field discontinued or just temporarily sold out?

-Curious



Well lets hope the new model will be more reliable than the Mark V.
I did not buy one because of all the complaints of both the 100 watt
version and expecially the 200 watt version blowing up and requiring
multiple trips to Yaesu repair.
I looked at the Kenwood TS-2000, but it is just too ugly. Multiple
eham.net reports also suggest that it is deaf. As far as the Icom's,
I look at an LCD screen on my computer all day at work. I really
don't want to look at another computer screen when I come home from
work and turn on my ham radio.

-Curious

The ads for the Kenwood TS2000 were not the best. I thought the same,
ugly. I bought one anyway because of all the stuff it will do and when
I got it and on the desk it's not all that bad looking. The pictures
aren't very good. It is quite a radio.

As for the MKV, I had one and it's got many on hours, hundreds in fact
and I never had any problem with mine, but that does not speak for
everybody, just me. Having said that, I did not find the MKV to be much
better than the MP. I like my 775 better.