Hi. The R2000 is a fine receiver in many respects, but it's design is
somewhat dated so as a consequence it will not have many of the signal
refining features that are on it's stablemate the R5000.

For example the R2000 has digital display to 100hz, two selectable
filters, 1 mhz up/down buttons, 10 memories, noise blanker, dual clock,
RF attenuator, selectable tuning rates down to 50hz and a nice sounding
front firing speaker. It doesn't have direct keypad frequency entry
and the 50hz tuning rate means ecssb is dicey.

The R5000 has digital display to 10hz, four selectable filters, direct
keypad frequency entry, selctable AGC, RF gain, IF shift, RF
attenuator, 100 memories, dual vfo's, noise blankers, notch filter,
dual antenna inputs, dual clocks, 1 mhz up/down buttons, selectable
tuning rates down to 10hz, computer interface. The top firing speaker
is barely adequate, but the addition of an outboard speaker reveals
some of the clearest audio available from a communications receiver.
The 10hz tuning rate means ecssb is pretty straightforward.

For the right price an R2000 would be a very nice radio. To be honest,
with the prices R5000 are going for I would look seriously at one of
those units too.