There are plenty of radios out there, or you can build your own!
Gotta budget??? What do you want it to do?
-Mike.
Full duplex, VHF/UHF, all mode, and wait for it <drum roll> band tracking! That is... when you adjust one band, it adjusts the other in an equal and opposite amount to line your TX and RX up with the satellite passband. Easier said than done. And while I
have built my own radios (Heathkit, Ten Tec T-kit, etc.) that's beyond me.
To the OPs point & for your benefit (old thread - don't know if you are a satellite op) satellite is a niche with most radios designed for it being 20+ years old. The FT-847 is very long in the tooth and a number of parts that are known to go bad are no longer available. The TS-2000 is no longer in production. The Icom 820/821 is fairly old as well. There is basically one Icom rig or buy a pair of 817/818 radios and either do some knob spinning with both hands or go computer control. (manual guy myself) I was going to hook up computer control, but before I could get the software going a nearby lightning hit zapped all the serial ports... radio, PC, rotor control. Wonder if that is what happened to OPs TS-2000. When I was a computer tech, replaced a LOT of PCs that had lightning come in through serial control lines.
Anyway, after working all 488 CONUS grids, I sold off my AZ-EL rotor system and antennas, donated my rig to a university club and moved cross country. With a whole lot of trees & mountains around my new QTH, I doubt I will do much from home any more, so a pair of FT-817s for roving it is. I also purchased a full duplex FM rig for a reasonable price and may go that route a bit... that and mount an antenna on a tripod. You know, lazy ops.

But I do see some 820/821s now and again and makes me look twice. Hopefully, the 817s will be enough for the SSB/CW birds and the V71A will do nicely on FM... should be easier at least.
73, Kevin N4UFO
P.S. Sorry for going on... splurged and had to iced tea tonight; normally not supposed to imbibe caffeine.
