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26 Apr, 2017
One Of The Best HF Radios Ever Built
2 of 2 found this helpful The Kenwood TS-850 S is in my opinion one of the finest ever produced by Kenwood. The receiver is one of the most sensitive out there and great for pulling weak signal contact out of a pileup. The slope tuning ability to pull in slightly off frequency signals is near unbeatable. This is one of the last radios that had a knob or a button for each function...Unlike later model radios that have electronic multiple menus that you have to jump through, just to adjust things. Personally I liked the 940 a tiny bit better but the 850 was bought instead because it had 12vdc power input. It's not married to an AC wall outlet like the 940. The TS-850s is not without faults though, early serial numbered units below 20million had 4 Kenwood proprietary chips on the carrier board that were prone to fail. Kenwood built a more durable chip to replace them but the replacements went out of production about 15 years ago and if you can find any...You'll give your first born and your right arm to get them. There are ten electrolitic capacitors on the carrier board that are prone to leakage, which if left unrepaired, the traces under them will corrode and destroy the board. The memory battery should be replaced along with it's holder, if it starts leaking and not repaired, the digital board it's soldered to will be ruined. Outside of that, these radios consistently get high marks for having the best RX and TX audio reports among ham operators world wide. If you want one..Get it...Outside of the early serial number bad chip issue..They are easy radios to work on should the need arise. Modifications for MARS and other things are also easy to do for anyone who can read a schematic or board layout diagram. I had one when I first started in ham..Made the mistake of selling it and buying a menu driven radio that started with a Y in it's name...The auto tuner didn't have as good a range as the auto tuner in the Kenwood and the audio and receiver of the Y radio didn't hardly come close to the Kenwood...I bought another 850 and the other brand is now the backup rig.