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Old 12th Jan 2018, 12:08 am   #24
JohnBG8JMB
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Poole, Dorset, UK.
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Default Re: What’s a relatively decent (old) transceiver for my needs?

1 I used to be involved professionally with Clansman. AVOID the 321 - well obsolete by the time it was introduced into service, complex, by now elderly and knackered, difficult to mend without all the special kit, eyewateringly expensive connectors [as is all Clansman], spares dubious, ....
2. The Kenwood ts-570 is a good bet - has internal auto atu, digital NR - which in my case makes the difference between operating and not - can easily be unlocked to cover 5 MHz and all 7Mhz, [in fact all of HF]. OK, it's synthesised but so is everything new enough to be worth having.
3 Anything with a valve pa is expensive to support.
4 Remember that vendors have strange ideas of what their kit is worth - what would you give for a 30 year old consumer product?

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