OMG, you are in Bentonville! I saw a post on QRZ from you. I'm John, KF5CSW. I live in Bentonville, too.
I'm a new technician as of a couple of months ago. Glad to see another HAM in Bentonville :)

The FT2000 series receiver has very poor close in IMD performance. In the presence of close in strong signals it falls apart. 100kz blocking very poor too. The 2000 is okay if you don't live very close to other big QRO op, or even strong AM broadcast. It's cheap, and the transmitter is fairly dependable, so in that respect it's okay..The supposed roofing filters are very bad. They might as well not be there. You can get some decent transmit audio from it. It sucks for CW. Not too bad for the price, you don't still get what you pay for. Not completely. Even the lowly Icom IC7000 beats it out performance wise most all the way around. I had the FT950 & 2000D. They were okay sans the aforementioned shortcomings. Even with the latest firmware updates, these radios are not much better. Maybe next time Yaesu. Can't imagine why anyone would want any of the 9000 iterations. Lots of folks fall for the hype because they know little about how HF transceivers work, and don't know what to look for in performance. Many aren't learning, and don't want to either. Even some old time operators, but not as many. Forget the $10K & > radios. I've had them, and still have a couple. Try a K3, Ten Tec Orion II, or even an old Drake TR7. Any of those three will absolutely run circles around the FT2000, 950, and even 1000 (the 1000 is lots better than the 2000 & 950, what happened Yaesu?....lose all your best designers?)

Motorola would do well to drop the ham side of Vertex and keep their commercial radio elements. (Motorola is not fond of ham radio anyway, so look out Yaesu ham radio goobers!)

Look out for better technology that will support some of the new direct conversion ideas. We're due for some "trickle down bones" about now. Flex is testing the market, but they don't have the whole clue, technology, financial resources, and their customer base are not the sharpest knives in the drawer........read their posts on Eham and Qrz, and if you really know anything about HF transceiver design, you will ascertain.

Hopefully the truth will set you free, and you've spent most of your ham money on the best antenna systems you can afford, spending the change on xcvr with good 100/20/2khz rcvr performance with DSP AGC attack that is controlled with good algorithm (good luck with that, when are you going to ever get that worked out wayne and eric, you can't keep your "koolaid drinkers" at bay forever).

Want a "real HF XCVR"? Get a Rohde & Schwarz XK2100.

Ulrich is "the man".

Where's the beef?

Show me the money.

-Q

Hi Andy!
Thanks for visiting my website and signing my guest book. You have a very nice clean website!
Hope you like the Butternut, I enjoyed the your comments on it, I loved all three of mine. They are a pain to get tuned. Enjoy the antennas and the new QTH, maybe we will have a QSO on HF of VHF one day. Great site, keep up the great info.

73' Larry - N5ASA

Hey Andy! Follower on Twitter N4EMP here. Glad to internet meet you. Enjoyed your web site visit just now!! 73's