[Yaesu] RE: First picture of the Yaesu FT-2000

Sat May 15 14:27:53 EDT 2004

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From: "john" <johnmb at nc.rr.com>
To: "Martin Sole" <msole at loxinfo.co.th>; "'Hans Remeeus'" <hans at remeeus.nl>
Cc: <yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] RE: First picture of the Yaesu FT-2000
> At 11:44 AM 5/15/04 +0700, Martin Sole wrote:
> >
> >Hmm,
> >Everything else I've seen calls it the FTDX9000.
>> Mostly I'd call it ugly.
>> Looks like the primary design goal was to see how many knobs and buttons
> could be plastered on the front.
>> I'd suspect that this is more a triumph of marketing over engineering. How
> many of those many dozens and dozens of controls are likely to ever be
used
> in the course
> of a QSO? How many are likely to be fully understood the owners?
>> Buy a 2K radio and put the balance of the money Yaesu wants for this
> monstrosity into antennas, and you'd likely be way ahead of the game.

Agree, and another thing, how many FTdx 9000 owners will hook it up to a
piece of RG-8 and crank up the prossesor.
WA1WLA
>> John K5MO
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