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The TS2000 has its advantages and disadvantages, but overall is nice to use and I think represents excellent value, especially at the $$ they are going for used. I use it at home alongside several other rigs (primarily an FTDX3000 and a FT857D) and run all 3 through a SP2000 speaker and wire antennas. I picked up a 2010 TS2000 from the family of an SK last year. It was said long ago, "If You Try To Be Too Much Too Many You Wind Up Being Too Little To Everyone!" this is certainly true in the case of this radio! It is sort of like kissing your sister, it ain't too bad but it ain't too good either! No Radio no matter who made it is a pleasure to use if you spend more time in the menus than you do using the radio! I'd rather go to a cafeteria than stare into a menu wondering what the true outcome will be. Even the little FT-897D has a much better and simpler receiver to use.
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But the IC-775DSP and the TS-940SAT sit in my HF Desktop positions. I will never sell my TS-2000 simply because My Dad now (SK) bought it. The TS-2000 is a good middle-of-the-road radio with a ton of features, however several of the above-mentioned radios are a pure pleasure to listen to, in fact, I kept my TS-570DG because it was a better receiver in many ways than the TS-2000 and the TS-590S that I sold. As for the Receive it definitely has no edge on any of the radios that I listed above in fact several of them outshine the receive capability of the TS-2000 by a large margin. I have never been given one complement about the Tx audio. Without a doubt, the TS-2000 is a good Mediocre radio, nothing and I mean absolutely nothing stands out about the transmit capability of this radio. I still own quite a few of them, according to my wife WAY TOO MANY! That said, I have done a direct comparison between the TS-2000 and several other radios including the Icom 746PRO, an Icom IC-706MKIIG, Yaesu FT-897D, Kenwood TS-430, TS-440SAT, TS-570DG, TS-940SAT, Icom IC-775DSP, Collins KWM380, and the RF Harris RF-3200. I have been a Ham since 1966 and have owned almost any radio that you can name. But it is much better to have that knife than no knife at all! Pretty much sums up the TS-2000. You would not however want to take a Swiss Army knife into combat. It Has Its Place, As was Said, "A Jack of All TradesĪnd the Master of None!" Is how the old saying goes and true for this radio, The "Swiss Army Knife" of radios.