Well I had seen that a used 2000D came up at the Radio store, I phoned and found out it is a 2010 production but was bought new in 2013 and the Gentleman traded it for a 5000. I started to compare the 3000 with my TS-590 and did a lot of flipping back and forth and I guess in the last few months I found my self running the 590 more often, It is such a simple radio to use and it performs well, time after time I would find a signal say 20 over and put both radios 2kHz away and start from a 2800 BW which I tend to run and the 590 would eat the 3000 every time would like wipe out the signal when I hit 1800 BW, with the 3000 it would still be there even with the 3000kHz R.Flt. Well just like the title says I had purchased the FTdx-3000 just over a year ago and I did a review stating on how much I love the radio and the big thing for me was the Audio on TX and RX was nice. Wish I had a chance to test the FT-5000, maybe in the future when prices go down. So what if I had to keep just one radio? Probably the FT-2000 would win my heart. I have to say that the IC-7300 has a better Noise Blanker and because of that is't sometimes better for low signals, but truth is that the audio is much more metalic and cold, and 95% of the time I just rather work with the FT-2000. You need to adjust most of the receive menu as well as the TX ones, but once you have done so you have a very silent receiver, with a pleasant warm modulation, and an incredible transmitting audio. As everyone stated the radio needs to be adjusted (I don't even understand why the default settings are so bad). On the T/R side the FT-2000 performs very well but not out of the box. Never the less the radio looks and feels good. I thought that the looks of it where superb, but the materials used to make the knobs and buttons feel a bit on the cheap side compared to Icom. I thought that the radio had very good ergonomics, probably one of the best I have ever tested. I went and purchased the unit and when I got it online my first impressions were very good but not great. In this moment of my life I have an Icom-7300 and I wanted something that could be a real base station radio (thing that the icom is not) and still could be good enough to compete with the IC-7300.Īfter a lot of deliberation I decided that the only radio that I could buy that didn't cost me more than $1500 and could maybe perform something like the IC-7300 would have been the FT-2000. It isn't perfect obviously but for the price it is pretty good. Well let me tell you this I have tested a lot of radios in my time and I have to say that the FT-2000 is a great radio.
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