It has been an excellent transceiver, fine audio on transmit and receive, and trouble free. My main transceiver had been the Kenwood TS-590S. With the best receiver I have used in over 56 years of ham radio. This is simply a great engineering marvel. Kenwood and icom don't come close with there high end rig prices. Now is a great time to purchase a great high end rig at a reasonable price. The rumor mill indicates Yaesu will soon replace this radio with a new one. After five years any bugs it might have had have been addressed by Yaesu and resolved including the OLED issues. It's simply the Best Buy in a high end rig on the market today. Much has been written about this rig over the past five years. After years with tiny buttons and multi level menus it was time to get back to my roots of large rigs with most functions at your finger tips. I missed two separate receivers and the big rig feel. I reviewed this rig on eham and gave it high marks. I owned the FTdx3000d for the last nine months. I have a new ftdx5000mp with the sm5000 station monitor.
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