Hello again, Matt -- I think that's your name -- it's been a while.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Ham
Since it seems that all everyone wants to buy is a cheap - handheld radio, and the only thing people wants to talk about is cheap handheld radios
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Interesting. I had not observed the tendency, or tendencies, you describe. Certainly there have been interesting and useful discussions of many base-station and mobile rigs here.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Ham
It features DSP technology including both upconversion and downconversion.
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Also interesting. How does it use DSP for conversion? Certainly that is possible to do, but I hadn't known that anyone
was doing it, and I thought I knew a couple reasons why.
I've never played with a TS-590S, but I have been pleased with every Kenwood I've owned, excepting only the famous Kenwood 741A/742A tribanders (I had four of these at one time) that suffered from keyboard maintainability problems because they retained the buttons with plastic foam that quickly rotted to powder, and one handheld that I was given because it's defective. Currently I own seven or eight Kenwood radios (only two are handhelds), and several Icoms (including 2m, 70cm, and aviation handhelds), and I like them too.
The defective Kenwood handheld (TH-F6) eats batteries (PB-42L) very fast and gets hand-burning hot doing so; otherwise it works OK. The other is a fancy model I don't remember, and works fine, but it's packed away somewhere in ts original box. Maybe I'll list in on eBay. I don't have occasion to use handhelds.