I recently passed my foundation license test and I'm looking at a radio to get. Does the Kenwood TS-2000/2000X still suffer from the receiving problems that I have been reading about or have they been fixed?
What receiving problems are you talking about? The TS2K was never a contest quality rig, it is a middle of the road HF receiver, and by todays standards is rather old tech. However it does many things a contest rig cannot do.
I own a couple of TS2Kx's, and they work just fine. The receiver is not as good as my Yaesu FTdx-5000MP, but then my 5k cannot cross band, cover 2 meters, 70 cm, and 1.2 GHz, or operate as a mobile with a remote head (RC-2000).
Different tools.
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