Hi Kenny, I had a 9r59DS which is the basic and receive-only version of the 530. That was the only Trio/Kenwood have owned. Never had any trouble with it, and it worked well. All I know about the TS530 is that they are reliable, and work OK. About the only possible trouble is the PA's, the 6146 does tend to give problems (and there are several versions of it) if itisnt neutralised properly. (I keep my Yaesu down to 75 or 80 watts to give the longest possible life to the PA's, considering how expensive they are!) Regards Alan PS, Have you got, or are going to get, your liccence? On 01/04/2012 13:58, kenny macdougall wrote: > Hi Alan, > I Was talking to you a bit a go about CB radio, and you said to me what > about me going into the Ham Rigs, well i gave it some thought and got myself > a Kenwood TRIO TS530S HF Transceiver, could you please give me your > thoughts on this rig, i have not used it yet. > Regards > Kenny > > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, > modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject > line. > MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.