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Very nice, with typical kenwood audio. I recently picked up the same model in similar condition at a boot sale for $20. Nice old hybrid classics 💯👍 73 and Happy DXing...

How much ? Asking for a friend. We both have "tickets" though I have never been on 40m,he has.........73

Nice presentation ..Thanks

Nice radio. Its such a pity that there are no more manufacturers of good radio equipment in the US today. Collins, Drake, SGC and Ten Tec seems to have ground to a halt.

Great receiver.

Nice bit of kit.

Great old Transceiver, own one myself. A little confusion on your contesting numbers given, first was 01 next was 02. Not to sure how many years you have held an Amateur licence, but the number given is the total number of years licenced. Thanks for sharing this older Classic Yaesu rig 💯👍

I thought the couplers were plastic for electrical isolation or for electric shock

G'day Andy, hope all's well mate. I have a pro3 here and I was trying to remind myself how to get the multi-metering happening where the scope sits...then at 0:32 you press and hold the meter button and up it comes....BUT, mine replaces the Scope with the metering...it doesnt stack it like yours does in this video. I know you moved this radio on, but do you recall where in the settings it allows you to set it up to stack the scope between the freq readouts and the metering? I have looked everywhere....... Ultimately, it doesnt matter either....it's just sufficiently pissing me off to ask haha. 73 Aaron VK2ON

Very nice video. I also suspect that the days of large format transceivers has come to an end. I've been a ham for 30+ years and large format analog Japanese transceivers is what I truly enjoy. It's that reason I ordered a IC-7851 a few years ago that I received in September 2023. I currently also have a Kenwood TS-990S and a Yaesu FTDX-5000 with all options. I had a FTDX-9000mp, but the FTDX-5000 is superior. I have other transceivers, but the three "big boys" I own, will remain in my shack until there is failure and they are no longer serviceable, or I have a failure and I am no longer serviceable -hi hi. 73 de AB4D

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Seems like the G7FEK antenna is exactely what I need to get on 80m from my small garden. Thanks for sharing your results, I'll build the antenna in the next days. 73 de OO4M

Great video! de W2CSI

Thanks for this presentation. (Would've been way better if the audio was piped directly instead of thru the microphone--missed a lot of the radio's true receiver audio. 😉)

I can't believe how low your noise level is at 7 MHz - I got an S9 noise floor on 40 meter where I live, from all this Chinese crap lighting and solar panels!

You're right, I absolutely love this style of radio's. Built like a battleship; AC PSU built-in; diecast alloy front panel; full-19" sized; large LCD; nice solid rack stye grips and phenomenal performance. And I like Icom's style of radio appearance. Much more professional looking than nowadays Yaesu radios, the latter always giving their radio's these "organic" shapes which makes them look like cheap stereos. Icom started this battleship-radio trend with the IC-765, then the IC-781, then the IC-7800 and the the IC-7851. I think you are correct, Icom will not do a follow-up model on the 7851. By the way, I have compared the IC-7851 receiver performance against the Flexradio 7600, and the IC-7851 beats that radio hands-down. The problem with these direct sampling SDRs is that the A-D converter at the RF input has a poor noise figure which is especially a problem at frequencies above 10 MHz. This means an RF preamp is needed which lowers the blocking dynamic range and the third-order IMD performance. For the Flexradio this was so bad that I could hear all this breakthrough from very strong 6 MHz broadcast stations showing up as 5 kHz "grass" on 15 and 10 meter. The concept that the IC-7851 uses (direct-down mixing using a high-level I-Q mixer using an ultra low-noise synthesizer as the local oscillator) avoids al these issues, and it allows for a 24-bit A-D converter at a much lower input frequency instead of the 16-bit ADCs that these direct-sampling SDR receivers use.

73. EA7FKI 👍

The speaker wirth owning or not ?

Nice commentary. Sounds like I'm listening to a test cricket match 🥰

A lot of wonderful equipment out there.

I have one will never let it go. 73 N8WXT

Yes great Antenna G3TXQ hexbeam ' I made the same change about 4 years ago ' still too add my 40m kit ' hope too hear you over the air Mw6hnn 73

I have ts 830s I guess I will clean my connectors with alcohol to start with. Just received.

Do you happen to have the part numbers for the capacitors you purchased?

My first Ham radio.

Still love my IC-781… but I also own an IC-7610

I have an absolutely beautiful ts820s they are great radios. I would never part with mine.

Enjoyed the video just put my hex beam up about 3 months ago and love it. 73 from N0TLC hope to catch you on the air someday.

I have one I won't get rid of mine it works well for an old radio

Nice rig, I use to own it :-)

Your tx signal sine wave needs to be a lot sharper. I run a 220 also, and granted I have outboard processing going on from my rack. But I utilize the band scope to give and tune your audio to studio quality. The mc50 with processing is lively and punchy with a bandwidth of about 3.4k. 4k is better to the listener and even 6k which I can get out of my Orion 2. 4k however is the favourable choice so as not to take up unnecessary bandwidth on 40mtrs. I use an MXL770 condenser mics and yes different mics will present an audio pattern of variable kinds. But my point is even when you think that looks good, slim out your scope to a thin line of focus. Turn off your processor, key your mic at power and observe a clean audio signal as opposed to fat and lumpy. You'll sound like the BBC, and the band listeners will thank you for such a clean signal. Use of Kenwood in the past here to with now yaesu, Icom and ten tec gracing the bench. But each tx gets the same audio clean up routine no matter what. This is great practice in the amateur arena where we are continuing to learn constantly from each mans station. Thx for your video!

I have one of these also but no bad HV caps yet, but I had thought those nylon couplers purpose was to isolate the shafts from the front panel?

What a beautiful setup when I bought my ts-530 I just missed out on the monitor in retrospect I wish I had gotten it but I have all the rest on the lineup, the external vfo is a handy add on ! De n9xvt

I have one of these as well and I had to change all the high voltage caps as well. But working nicely now.

Hi there. Very nice radio. I run a TS830S here and. TS510. Beautiful radios.

I have a TS830S and a TS510. Both work very well.

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Great video but your not done. Clean or change the 2 bnc connectors. Would make it look even better. Love the older kenwood stuff.

Congrats. Glad it’s working,a great piece of equipment. Nothing beats the satisfaction of getting this stuff to work again. 73s

Thanks mate, my 220 has the same problem. I must have been unlucky as the two HV diodes are open circut as well. 73

All knobs to the right should fit in just fine with the radio that had the 11 meter modification-thats standard operating procedure for that band here in the US it seems

Tnx. Pertinent to me. I have a SM220, and a Yaesu YOxxx monitor scope. Both suffer the same issue. After about 30 minutes the traces cease. Power down for a few hours and all is ok for another 30 minutes. I need to investigate both.

I had same focus problem. R175 1 Meg resistor had went bad and replacing it solved problem. It changed value but don’t remember which way. You probably cleaned focus pot but saying it anyway.

Nice unit, although it really looks like the trace is out of focus. You lose some resolution because of that. 73, Bert, VE2ZAZ/VA2IW.

I had a Kenwood TS-430S and matching power supply PS-430 that I gave away when I got my Yaesu 991a. I had done corrosion control on the cabinets and repainted them and added an external power supply fuse mounted in the rear. Nice job on that restoration. Cheers & 73 from K9POW in eastern TN

My Father still has his in the box never used it LOL was the first in Australia to buy his radio. No one had this radio only my dad.

My dad and I had one of these when I was young. It was a great radio, but eventually the frequency started to randomly go all over the place. We'd take it apart, clean various contacts, and put it back together again. It would work for awhile but then the problem would start up again after a few weeks or a couple months. We could never figure out the issue. Maybe today, with the Internet, we would have googled it. Too bad I don't have the rig any more.

Nice rig. Save S$$ and get a 101D. better RX.

As the current technology required for some radios become obsolete people will own a doorstop. But of course, I think that is the marketing plan.

Hex beam, $1,226.92 at Dx Engineering. EFHW, 49:1 unun $50. 12ga stranded wire, $69.99. Total $119.99. Hmmmmm