Brand and Model number : Kenwood TS-590S
Your first name : Yukon John
Call Sign : HI3/KL7JR
Type of equipment reveiwed:  Kenwood TS-590S HF/6M XCVR
Your overall rating (5 is excellent, 1 is poor) : 4.5
Enter time owned or used, years/months : 1 week
Purchased new or used : New

Comments about the equipment in your own words:

Transceiver was 800 Hz off frequency and did not put out 100w. Poor quality control at the factory, hi hi! I knew from reviews Kenwood was having problems in those areas so I had it sent from the dealer to WR3S for a complete tune up to be sure. I also had the optional voice guide VGS-1 installed. The rig now puts out 105 watts, is exactly on frequency, fairly easy to operate and is very similar to their older TS-570 xcvr which I really liked as well. The 590S is a joy to operate compared to the Ten-Tec Eagle I traded in for it! I highly recommend this rig.
Your email address : KL7JR at yahoo.com
Date of your review:07/22/2012

Brand and Model number : Ten-Tec 599 Eagle XCVR
Your first name : Yukon John
Call Sign: HI3/KL7JR

Type of equipment reveiwed: HF and 6M XCVR
Your overall rating (5 is excellent, 1 is poor): 1.5 (less than 2!)
Enter time owned or used, years/months: 2 weeks (see previous review below)
Purchased new or used: New

Comments about the equipment in your own words : 

Very complicated MENU and the rig is severely over priced compared to its Kenwood and Yaesu rivals. I bought it because I liked their older Scout model and was very disappointed with my Eagle. The VFO is loose, there is no voice recorder (optional) and the internal tuner didn't tune anything unless the SWR was less than 3:1 which was pretty much useless for my antenna experimenting. Overall I was most disappointed with the Eagle. For that amount of $$$ I expected a lot more. The new TS-590 beats it hands down!

Your email address: KL7JR at Yahoo.com
Date of your review: 07/22/2012

Brand and Model number: Icom 7600
Your first name: Frank
Call Sign: k0jm
Type of equipment reveiwed- Be specific! Example Yaesu FT-107 Hf transceiver, Hustler 4btv vertical antenna: Icom 7600 hf transceiver
Your overall rating (5 is excellent, 1 is poor):10 (5)
Enter time owned or used, years/months: 4 months
Purchased new or used: new
Comments about the equipment in your own words:

Great radio. One of the posts on another website said use rtty for tune up...better yet..make a phone plug and a push button on and off switch on a 3 ft cord. Plug it into the back...great for full carrier tune up and my astatic hand mike overloaded something and would quit and shut the 7600 down with odd looking audio trace on the external scope. So I use the mike that came with the 7600, and I added some ideal no22 buttons ( available from grainger) on the mike gain and power out controls (had to ream them a little to get them to fit and not slip) but they work great to adjust mike and power out.
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k0jm
Your email address :k0jm at juno.com