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You done a very good job there 🎉vy73 elan

Good review brother, keep up the good work, kb0uzz 73s

Thinking to buy one and replace my ta590sg or have it work together with 890s

thanks for this video - i hope to buy a TS-890 this year and start working CW again. Haven't worked CW in many years.

Thanks for your presentation! Ham for a little over 5 years now, started with a complete Kenny line for the 830S. Then Yaesu DX-3000-D which has been my work horse as net controller 4 nights a week for a number of years. HOWEVER, I felt the need for a Christmas present to self... JUST ORDERED a Kenny 890-S! Will be here in a few days from this writing. Can't wait! Talking to fellow hams in our radio club that own the 890-S and 990-S were very helpful in my decision and purchase. Good times 🙂

Great review! Thoughtful and unbiased. Thank you for doing this. I went from a Flex 6400 (great performer but basically a computer with knobs)..to a Yaesu FTDX101D (which is also a great performer but ergonomically a mess, at least to me). Looking seriously at the 890. No second receiver but does anyone REALLY need that?

Poorly produced. Just locked down on DECODE mode. No demonstration of feature set or use with external keyboard or Message build. A waste of time for anyone who wants to “learn”. Many hams think that putting a video up locked down with no context- is demonstrating. Mike WA4D (TS-990 Owner frequent user of the very excellent Kenwood CW Decoder app)

Thank you for this "From the heart" review. Thank you for taking the time and effort in making this video. Well done. the 890 is a great radio and I do hope you will have years of real enjoyment out of it. Albert EI7II.

Grazie delle tue impressioni, anche io sono indeciso tra IC7610 e il TS890s

As for finishing take the covers off and take a look inside. A really rough looking aluminum heat sink and a cheap vfo encoder. My perspective…

Should I buy one on Ebay(from Japan)? they are cheaper than here in the US. Why do they sell them cheaper?

Very helpful, thanks!

Veery good review. I have the 590SG, and the quality you speak of is in that rig too.

Really interesting . You are obviously like me , you appreciate quality and engineering . I'm tempted by the 890S having been very impressed by the TS480-sat that I used for mobile and still have in storage whilst other radios have come and gone . The 890s is a big conventional radio and looks to be at the top of its game I'm beginning to think about either this radio or maybe the K4D but it's early days, so i do appreciate your measured, no-nonsense , razzmatazz free, impression. Good to watch and learn, thanks Richard G3UGF

Excellent review and commentary. Thank you, and enjoy your TS-890S! 73 Chris ZS1DX

Thank you for the review.

I'm new to amateur radio, hopefully taking my tech/general test later this month, just wanted to say this was a great, informative review. I was looking at a dual receiver radio(in this price range) but I think I would prefer the Kenwood 890. This was one of the better reviews I've found. Thanks.

Love mine.

Nice review. I’m considering the 890 for its CW capabilities. I have listened to lots of reviews as well and most radios being sold today are all really nice. So what separates them is the attention to detail and I am one who appreciates quality and craftsmanship. Engineers that go the extra mile for small things like the knobs tell me they care about their products. I believe Kenwood is my choice as well. Again. Nice honest review. 73 KG5SNU.

Thank goodness one of the big Amateur Radio company’s has made a first class professional radio that can decode CW So we can rag with CW And not be stuck with simple premade messages only to send out. 😁😁😁

The 890 is a FB cw rig. The qsk is near silent and no relay! The ssb audio is classic Kenwood and the best of the box radios to me. I’ve had mine a year and realized I need to take a closer look at it and I’m about order the optional Cw filter. It’s a shame that Yaesu forgot how to build a radio with good qsk - meaning no relays or I’d prob already have a 101 or a dx10. The NR on my FT5K is the best there is but I’d still take the 890 if I had to pick one- easy choice.

i fall in love whit this rtx.. i hope to can afford to buy one ASAP

some one told me to buy an icom 7300 and save $3,000. Says that as a new ham, I'll never use all the features the Kenwood offers. Any thoughts?

thank you for sharing with us

What do you recommend for an apartment in a noisy environment, the Kenwood TS -590SG or the new Yaesu FTDX10. Thank you.

Just purchased the 890 today. Anxiously waiting for it. I also took about a year contemplating between different brands and levels of radios and I also chose the 890 for simplicity and its not a sdr radio,

George, Friend, please I have Kenwood TS 890s, I need your guidance: is it possible to put a keyboard on the radio (usb) and transmit CW? does it decode the transmission from the keyboard? 73

Excellent video... nice that you often repeated that it was your opinion. I will buy an 890S,as like you I have done a lot of research. If they had updated the 990 to these specs, I would have bought it as I often find 200w enough without turning on the linear.

Thanks for this video sir. Same here...got one arriving tomorrow. It was a tough decision not going with the 7610, because everything else I have is Icom. But it just looks better built and a better all around transceiver. I just like the way it is laid out, and I am still apprehensive about the displays on the 7610s. Do I need it? No, but I am trying to put everything in place so that when I retire in a year or two, I will have it all sorted out. I will work on upgrading my amp next year to something that is more modern.

Great review. Finally I bought a TS-890 because of this video. I wanted the radio that people are deeply loving as fine product. Actually now I'm loving using TS-890 everyday.

Still love my TS-940 that I bought used in 1998. The tuning is great on it! But may go for an upgrade and this 890 looks awesome!

Good equipment review, keep them coming.

The 890S needs a strong clear signal to decode CW reliably. I can copy CW stations that the 890 cannot decode. That's not necessarily a fault of the radio. May just be a limitation of the current technology. I've heard it's much better with PSK31, but I have not tried that yet.

if you transmit on fm with the waterfall span at 100khz, do you see a harmonic down 75khz?

What a gorgeous radio, I think Icom is good quality, but the 890 is top of the top, definitely on my bucket list. What a radio. If it has en even better selectivity than the 590 SG (an excellent radio which I sold to get the 890) then it's an awesome radio.

Great video ... back in the amateur radio saddle and am currently without an HF rig ... this radio has my utmost attention!

Thank you for sharing your opinion - 73 de HB9GNK and KB9GNK

Nice video. I agree with you about the quality. One of the things about the IC-7610 I dislike most is the sloppy/cheap-feeling knobs. They work fine and all, but they just don't feel like precision engineered parts.

Thing is testing is only as good as your knowledge of the radios being tested. Would be hard to master all three that quick. But kenwood is obviously a another great design. I bought a yaesu ft1200 and was not impressed with it and then replaced with an icom 7300 and that was quite a difference in sensitivity for me. sold

Absolutely Great Video! I enjoyed it very much. I have had my TS-890S for almost two years and enjoy using it very much. Thanks 👍 and 73, Denny WB9MSM

I have an 890 on the way and came across your video to learn more. All radios have different strengths and weakness. You did a good job of describing what is important to you (look and feel) and why the 890 fit that for you. This is my first Kenwood purchase in my long ham career. Kenwood was king in the 80’s, seemed to disappear for 25 years glad to see they are back.

Never seen that before - thanks!

This was more worthless than an unboxing video.

I have a Kenwood TS890S, it is a complete radio and a perfection of reception, I am very HAPPY with the purchase, a DX making machine, 73

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Sir, thank you for taking the time to present your thoughtful review. Features that seem important to you would probably be important to me also. 73...WA7VVV

i like the build . its like high quality audio receiver im a audiophile ... i think way better then Icom build. thank you for this.

im sold to 890. thank you for the video sir.

well done

Could not agree more well done..