New Transceiver from Kenwood
The new Kenwood TS-590
At Dayton 2010 Kenwood announced the release of a new radio, the Kenwood TS-590. Will it be a useful radio for the RAIBC?
The radio is an HF and 6 meter transceiver with built in AATU. It also has DSP and a USB port for PC control.
However what has caught our eye is the fact that it takes the excellent Kenwood Voice Chip the VGS-1. This is the chip which is used in the TS-570 and TS-480. Since the demise of the TS-570 we have been looking for a suitable HF rig for visually impaired amateurs. The Kenwood TS-480 is very good but takes some setting up. Perhaps this will be a worthy successor? Time will tell.
The specifications below are a little vague. For example what does “good receive performance” mean? Also “split frequency operation”. Surely any half decent modern HF radio will have that capability! Hopefully more details will be forthcoming very soon. Of course the big question mark is the last specification, “price TBA”!
Hopefully sometime in July or August the rig will become available and we shall have a review of it in our Equipment Review section as soon as we can get one to Kelvin.
TS-590S HF/50MHz ALL MODE TRANSCEIVER
Availability : July/August 2010
Features:
HF / 50MHz all mode
Size (W x H x D mm) 270 × 96 × 291
Rx Freq : 100KHz – 60MHz continuous
TX Freq : 1.8MHz – 50MHz each on amateur bands
TX Power : 100W (AM 25W max)
High dynamic range
Good Rx performance
Easy operation
IP: +30dBm Class
2KHz separation
32bit floating-point DSP
Sky Command
Built-in Antenna Tuner
100ch memory
Split frequency operation
USB port for PC control and sound interface
4ch voice memory (with VGS-1)
Price: TBA
http://dx-world.net/2010/kenwood-ts-590-new-hf50mhz-transceiver/
www.rigpix.com/kenwood/ts590s.htm
