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kenwood r-2000
how is the performance of this receiver
any good? |
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It's a fine table top receiver at the right price, which should be
around $200 to $250.00 depending on condition. Take a look at the review on dxning.com for more information. |
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Decent receiver and even better if you do the few of the simple
modifications posted on the R-2000 Resource Site (try typing this in Google). On par with the FRG-8800 of the same era. Frank K3YAZ Tucson |
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"John S." wrote: It's a fine table top receiver at the right price, which should be around $200 to $250.00 depending on condition. Take a look at the review on dxning.com for more information. That would be 'dxing' as in: http://www.dxing.com/ dxAce Michigan USA http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm |
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"jwb" wrote:
how is the performance of this receiver any good? --------------------------------------- I have two R2000s and love them. They are not AOR7030+, but they are very good workaday receivers. In many (?most?) locations the background RF noise will limit how sensitive a receiver needs to be. The R2000 is rated by Sherwood Labs, a respected player in the RF game, as having a noise floor -130db. If you local noise floor is -110dB , then anything more sensitive won't help you. The stock filters in the R2000 are "OK", the AM-W is too wide, but the narrow is likely to be aceptable. Given that you can pickup a good R2000 for less then $300, and a AOR7030+ will run over $1500 for a basic version and go go over 2K with all the treats, the R2000 is pretty good. At the very least it will make a great beginner's radio, and if your interest hangs in there you can always rob a bank to buy the 7030+. There are some very simple mods that make the R2000 a much better receiver. Frank C decyphered the adjustable BFO mod that makes SSB/CW/FSK a lot more fun, and allow the use of SSB to receive AM for crowded conditions. Go to: http://www.sherweng.com/table.html for a comparison of common good radios. Sadly the list doesn't include the ATS909/ DX398. A nice basic receiver that the ARRL rated as having a noise floor of 0.08uV at 14MHz which equals -129dBm. (At least if my brain hasn't been fried by being outside for the last 4 days playing radio). And while the rated sensitivities are nearly the same, The R2000 is much more sensitive the the DX398. My wife and I each own a DX398 and I own 2 R2000s. I have compared the 2 different recivers under many conditions and I just don't trust the ARRL figures. There is much more the sensitivity to consider. The Drake SW radios have a much lower phase noise then the R2000 and this noise is like a thin vail bewteen you and the signal. But any of the good Drakes are going to cost much more then a R2000. And for most listening the difference is minimal. For real weak signal work, after you find a RF quite location then the Drakes will outshine the R2000. But not by that much. Go to: http://www.qsl.net/kc7bum/ for R2000 owners and service manauls and some usefull mods. Terry |
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I have one and an R8.
Anything the R8 can hear, the R2000 can hear. The R2000 is as sensitive, maybe slightly better than the R8, but lacks the creature features of P.B. tuning, notch filter, extra bandwidths. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ www.coffeecrew.com Colin Newell's Daily Grind rnewell AT vcn DOT bc DOT ca \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ |
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