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WPE9JRL
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Rating: 4/5
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Jan 29, 2005 09:15
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Pleasure To Operate
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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Wanting to try out an R-2000, I bought one on ebay for $200, it's in nice shape and works well.
The radio is sensitive and hears most anything my Icom Pro will hear. I use mine for casual listening and it is very satisfying to use. The quick use of the 10 memories is a real neat feature. You can easily "memorize" one freq while surfing to another...then you can recall the previous listened-to freq's very quickly at the push of a button.
The radio looks cool and has a colorful front panel layout....unlike our black-boxes of today.
SSB is good on it....some others here have complained about the inability to tune SSB "correctly" due to the 50-Hz tuning steps. It works fine 99-percent of the time. Audio on AM and SSB sounds natural and pleasing with the stock filters. Why would anyone hack this thing up with "Kiwa" mods?
I bought Ten-Tec's $12.00 Mosfet preamp board....mounted it in a RadShack project box along with a six-foot telescopic antenna. This homebrew amplified antenna on the back of the R-2000 makes a neat stand-alone listening station that I carry around room-to-room in the house.
Bottom line: The radio is a very good workhorse, pleasing to operate and to listen to. Good prices in the used market. I can see why so many of them were sold in the 1980's.
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LU5DDX
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Rating: 4/5
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Jun 23, 2004 17:34
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bueno
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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es un muy buen receptor la unica falla es la llave del atenuador que se desarma y pierde sensibilidad .
hay que modificarla o no tocarla .
saludos desde bs,as. jorge
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ZS6BNE
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Rating: 4/5
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May 19, 2004 07:18
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Good general coverage receiver
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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I used to own a R1000 receiver but sold it only to be in a position that I needed a general coverage receiver again. I saw an ad on our local website in South Africa for a R2000 receiver and bought it for R800 which is equivalent to about $114 which was a bargain. To be honest I preferred the R1000's tuning. The R2000's tuning could be better. Passing certain frequency segments can be heard which is a bit irritating. The ability to store frequencies and modes on 9 different channels is a big plus point and it is done so easily too. I like the memory channel and range scanning a lot. The squelch has not been used very much but could be handy on a quiet band. I like the recording output which I send to via a digital modes interface to the PC's sound card mic input for recording to WAV files. Overall I would say the R2000 is good value for money and definitely a general coverage receiver is a MUST for every ham shack.
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68BG032
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Rating: 4/5
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Aug 11, 2003 11:10
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What can i say, its my first listening set
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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To be honest I have only just got my hands on a R2000, but i think that it is a really good set. I have not used the fitted VHF receiver as my antenna is only a 27Mhz CB Antrnna, but i hope to get an antenna that will cover from 0Mhz up to 174Mhz. If any body knows how to get my hands on a cheap transmitting module i would be very grateful as I want to use this as my first amateur radio. Cheers.
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KC7BUM
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Rating: 4/5
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Jan 7, 2003 00:29
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A wonderful radio!
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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When I was in the military stationed down in the Republic of Panama back in 1988, I used to drool over the R-2000 in the Base Exchange catalog, but I could never afford one. I would have loved trying to run DX from down there, especially since I was involved with classified comms monitoring as part of my job. Later on, when I separated from the service, I cashed in some savings and finally bought one. I set up a 100' longwire antenna which I strung up about 35' high between two trees. One of my best logs was catching a ham operating USB out of Easter Island (about 1000 miles west of Chile) in the south Pacific. I wrote him a contact report but he never sent me a QSL card :-(
Anyway, I love that little R-2000 receiver so much that I've put together a comprehensive information resource web page for it. I have R-2000 manuals, schematics, parts, mods, accessories, etc. You can find it all at this web address:
http://www.qsl.net/kc7bum/
I'd like to invite everyone to please come over and visit the page, and if you like what you see, please join our Kenwood R-2000 email discussion group. We'd love to have you with us.
All the best from Portland, Oregon!
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N5JOB
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Rating: 4/5
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Jul 16, 2002 17:51
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Wish I still had mine!
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Time owned: 6 to 12 months
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I owned an R-2000 years ago, and sold it because I had about one dozen receivers at the time! I really regret selling it.
The thing I liked most about it was the beautiful audio! The thing I disliked most about it was the fact that it tuned in 50 hz steps. Sometimes it was impossible to tune some SSB stations so that the voices sounded natural.
This radio is not so much a "hands-on" receiver as the R-1000. If you're a shortwave broadcast listener you could probably program your favorite frequencies in the 10 memories and never tune around much!
It is a nice CW receiver if you have the 500 hz filter installed.
If you're looking for a nice radio and don't mind the problem I mentioned above with SSB stations, the R-2000 would be a good choice.
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VK5KLR
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Rating: 4/5
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Jul 13, 2002 13:18
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I'd buy it again
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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Bought my R2000 in 1991. Still going strong even after the pup dragged it onto the floor with a bang while tugging on the antenna coax!
2 of the push buttons for memory location selection have broken. Still useable but the buttons often need a bit of jiggling to get them to work. Otherwise, no mechanical problems.
Not possible to line up USB/LSB so that they both read correct frequency of station being received. One can be set OK but the other will always be out about 300Hz. No problem.
Scanning rate far too slow to be useful.
Using a 25m wire antenna it overloads on strong local AM MF stations, with strong spurii up to about 3MHz. Nothing that a high pass filter couldn't sort out.
Have owned an Eddystone 880 and Collins 51J4, both top line military / commmercial receivers in their day (late 1950's, early 1960's). Both old clunkers were better at handlng strong signals, but that's not really a problem. The Collins had rather better selectivity, which I miss, though I have heard that a Collins filter can be fitted to the R2000.
However, the R2000 scores big time on frequency stability in the first 30 minutes, and is about as good thereafter.
And, of course, it really shines on frequency agaility compared to cranking those old heavyweights up and down the megacycles.
Mine has the VHF converter fitted. Seems adequate - definitely not a toy.
I think I'll run this one till it drops (or the dog, now very old, tows it onto the floor again).
By the way, the call sign I gave (Vk5KLR) is an ex. I gave up ham radio over 10 years ago. Just SWL'ing these days.
Regards to all
Dave Morrell
Adelaide, South Australia
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SWL71OK
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Rating: 5/5
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Apr 12, 2002 12:22
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A Great receiver
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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Picked up the R2000 in trade for network and
computing services provided to a local
medical office( The receiver was owned by a
local doctor who is part of our local dx club--
espresso.ts.uvic.ca ) The receiver is fitted with the VHF Convertor and other than a missing button(the timer), the unit has worked flawlessly for 6 or 7 years of daily use. It has a COLLINS filter in the narrow position and really performs with some fairly basic antennas..
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EI4HQ
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Rating: 4/5
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Oct 30, 2001 08:41
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Good Value even today
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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I recently purchased a second hand R2000 at a rally to use for propagation beacon monitoring. The unit has the optional VHF converter fitted. I'm very happy with it. The receiver is good even by today's standards (and substantially better than many of the newer all singing all dancing efforts like the Yaesu V5000). I am waiting on a manual but this is only to see about connecting it to a PC (for auto-monitoring/band switching) - otherwise one isn't required as the rig's operation is totally intuitive. I agree that having to reset the clocks everytime the unit is unplugged is a pain - also the scanning is so slow as to be useless - might it be possible to speed it up I wonder?. A faster scan rate with carrier pause would make this rig perfect. As it is scanning on VHF is a non runner really which is a terrible shame. Given the bargin basement prices at which this rig can be picked up I would have no hesitation in grabbing one.
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VE3VG
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Rating: 5/5
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Aug 22, 2001 12:45
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excellent
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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I've been a licenced ham for the last 40 years. (wow, 40 years!)
Only had the R2000 for a few months but I love it.
Over the years have owned lots of good, bad and indifferent receivers,
but the R2000 is up there with some of the best. I think I will keep
this one.
My only criticism is with the two clocks, wish at least one of them
was displayed along with the frequency... wish they didn't need to be
reset every time the power went off, and wish the narrow filter was a
little less flakey...
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