Kenwood Radio's

[Wagontrain]

Does anybody use them?
Just curious, they seem to make a nice radio.

VE7SEN

[ntsqd]

I have had 2x Kenwood 261A's. They worked great, but were a PITA to program manually. One I had to do a full reset on as it got into some loop that rendered it unusable. That wiped out my programming.

Reportedly the replacement 271 is easier to manully program, but I've no experience with them.

[TJVach]

I had a Kenwood (don't remember the model number) but it was alright I sent it out for repair four months after buying it cause it wouldn't read a cd or eject it, but that might be because it got shook to death in my Jeep. Overall I don't plan on getting another one. I'm sticking with Alpine personally.

**EDIT** thought you meant vehicle cd players/radios....Sorry

[dbregman]

I have a TM-d700A mobile and love it. It is dual band recieve, so I can be monitoring on freq and chatting on another. It has a built-in TNC and the best out of the box APRS support of any radio. The 710a just came out so there are some deals to be had on the 700A. It also allows programming on the PC and downloading to the radio. That makes programming a breeze.

I also just picked-up a used TH-79A HT (handheld) it is a solid radio - also a dual bander.

All radios have their quirks. I like the fact that all the Kenwoods seem to have a similar interface, so if you know one you know them all.


Let me know if you have any more questions.

[Wagontrain]

I'm guessing the downfall of these radio's is programming, of course, they all have there programming quirks. I'm leaning towards a FT-8900 (Yaesu).

Cheers,

VA7SEN

[gary in ohio]

Kenwood is one of the 3 main brands of ham radios, Kenwood, Icom, Yeasu.
All 3 are quirky in programming but all are fine radios for a given price class.

[cruiseroutfit]

My first rig was a Kenwood THK2AT handheld... easy to program, easy to use... I've been impressed.

[1leglance]

I have a Kenwood D-7A handheld that I bought just to try the APRS function....great little radio and rock solid.
I will be selling it since I am holding off on getting into APRS and I love both my Yaesu 7800 in the FJC and the VX6R handheld for hiking.