I owned a Kenwood R2000 back in the day, was a really good receiver, traded up to a R5000, not so good, ran really hot, finaly quit working, the Furuno receivers are not common and most do come from India where they scrap the big ships, they call it ship breaking.... thx. Matt
@@mattottie6410 what are the furuno prices? I find the specs of the r5000 better but it will manifest the dot issue over time so it might be less durable
Hello Chuck....My name is Clint Jeffrey I live in Melbourne Australia. Not sure if you have a Ham Radio Call mines VK3CSJ...some time ago I purchased a Kyoritsu RA-206A Receiver from an ad on eBay. The Receiver didn't work and has sat on my shelf waiting for me to get back to it to finally fix it. Here it is several years later and I'm just getting around to looking into it. There is next to nothing on the internet about this receiver and I've had emails going out everywhere hoping someone might know something. Having said that, a fellow ham has notified me of your Video. One look at this I was blown away, you have two of them but the funny thing is the name on them is 'Furuno' whereas mine has 'Kyoritsu' how odd is that. Anyway, I have fault in my receiver and I'm wondering if you can give us an idea....happy to email...Cheers Clint.
Hi Clint! Glad to meet you. My call sign is KI4BZJ, although I don’t really get on the air very much, mainly listen on HF. I can see why your 206A is branded Kyoritsu-The power supply boards in it are made by them. This model seems to be branded by multiple companies, but the boards are slightly modified Kenwood R2000 parts. My second unit has some issues and I tried doing a straight RF board (the lower one) from a Kenwood R2k, and it fit, but there are two circuit differences, both of which seem to connect to the Kyoritsu power system daughter board. The radio does turn on and function with the R2k board, but the receive is deaf. What is the issue with your radio?
@@KI4BZJ Hi Chuck, thank you so much for replying, its going on midnight I'm about to hit the sack (Monday morning)....the receiver is like 98% percent working but is deaf, maybe we have the same problem?....I'm hearing the stronger stations in the Broadcast Band but go up in frequency and its pretty quiet. This is where I have a couple of questions. The "GAIN" control, I assume it's an RF Gain control?...mine doesn't work, even the stations I'm hearing this Gain control doesn't do anything which suggests that the problem definitely lies in the Front End. Also the BFO function, Kyoritsu has used an external BFO board which plugs in to the main receiver board, it appears to work but only in the CW mode, select USB/LSB and there's no obvious effect, is that the same on yours?
Chuck, I tried sending you an email per the address in QRZ but it bounced back, my email address is correct in QRZ you are more than welcome to send your email address via my address....;)
@@VK3CSJ Yes, my QRZ entry is about 15 years out of date snd I can’t recover my password to do anything there. I’m wampus61gmailcom if you’d like to compare notes.
@@VK3CSJ One of my receivers receives well, but seems to fade after an hour or two usage. The other one is completely deaf and doesn’t produce any audio. Probably the same front end issue, just in different states of failure. Yes, the GAIN is RF Gain. The BFO is primarily intended for CW, so I’d expect it to only work in that mode.
@@KI4BZJ the next r 2000 that comes up for sale in good condition I'm buying it I've had one but it was in bad condition fotget about the vhf uhf module no good
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Loved my R2000, had it back in the early 90s.
Only sold it because I wanted a AOR3030 that's had just come out at the time and needed the funds.
Fantastic, what a find. Thanks for showing. It tells what good radio the R2000 is if a commercial company uses the whole concept.
Thanks Chuck. Very interesting! I did a vid a while back comparing the Drake SW8 and the Grundig 800 - same radio basically. Keep these vids coming!
I owned a Kenwood R2000 back in the day, was a really good receiver, traded up to a R5000, not so good, ran really hot, finaly quit working, the Furuno receivers are not common and most do come from India where they scrap the big ships, they call it ship breaking.... thx. Matt
@@mattottie6410 what are the furuno prices? I find the specs of the r5000 better but it will manifest the dot issue over time so it might be less durable
fine video, thank you
The R 2000 lacks BFO and it is a severe handicap on SSB.
Do you have the schematics of the furuno to put the same mod on the R2000 to even it out?
Hello Chuck....My name is Clint Jeffrey I live in Melbourne Australia. Not sure if you have a Ham Radio Call mines VK3CSJ...some time ago I purchased a Kyoritsu RA-206A Receiver from an ad on eBay. The Receiver didn't work and has sat on my shelf waiting for me to get back to it to finally fix it. Here it is several years later and I'm just getting around to looking into it. There is next to nothing on the internet about this receiver and I've had emails going out everywhere hoping someone might know something. Having said that, a fellow ham has notified me of your Video. One look at this I was blown away, you have two of them but the funny thing is the name on them is 'Furuno' whereas mine has 'Kyoritsu' how odd is that. Anyway, I have fault in my receiver and I'm wondering if you can give us an idea....happy to email...Cheers Clint.
Hi Clint! Glad to meet you. My call sign is KI4BZJ, although I don’t really get on the air very much, mainly listen on HF. I can see why your 206A is branded Kyoritsu-The power supply boards in it are made by them. This model seems to be branded by multiple companies, but the boards are slightly modified Kenwood R2000 parts. My second unit has some issues and I tried doing a straight RF board (the lower one) from a Kenwood R2k, and it fit, but there are two circuit differences, both of which seem to connect to the Kyoritsu power system daughter board. The radio does turn on and function with the R2k board, but the receive is deaf. What is the issue with your radio?
@@KI4BZJ Hi Chuck, thank you so much for replying, its going on midnight I'm about to hit the sack (Monday morning)....the receiver is like 98% percent working but is deaf, maybe we have the same problem?....I'm hearing the stronger stations in the Broadcast Band but go up in frequency and its pretty quiet. This is where I have a couple of questions. The "GAIN" control, I assume it's an RF Gain control?...mine doesn't work, even the stations I'm hearing this Gain control doesn't do anything which suggests that the problem definitely lies in the Front End. Also the BFO function, Kyoritsu has used an external BFO board which plugs in to the main receiver board, it appears to work but only in the CW mode, select USB/LSB and there's no obvious effect, is that the same on yours?
Chuck, I tried sending you an email per the address in QRZ but it bounced back, my email address is correct in QRZ you are more than welcome to send your email address via my address....;)
@@VK3CSJ Yes, my QRZ entry is about 15 years out of date snd I can’t recover my password to do anything there. I’m wampus61gmailcom if you’d like to compare notes.
@@VK3CSJ One of my receivers receives well, but seems to fade after an hour or two usage. The other one is completely deaf and doesn’t produce any audio. Probably the same front end issue, just in different states of failure. Yes, the GAIN is RF Gain. The BFO is primarily intended for CW, so I’d expect it to only work in that mode.
One is 1000 dollars the other 20000 thousand new
Yes, and that was in 1987 funds!!
@@KI4BZJ the next r 2000 that comes up for sale in good condition I'm buying it I've had one but it was in bad condition fotget about the vhf uhf module no good
The Kenwood is not a real dx machine the Feruno well