{"id":42892,"date":"2020-04-17T08:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42892"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:18:22","slug":"video-antonios-kenwood-r-2000-modifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/video-antonios-kenwood-r-2000-modifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Antonio&#8217;s Kenwood R-2000 Modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kenwood-R-2000-Mods.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42893\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kenwood-R-2000-Mods-1024x421.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kenwood-R-2000-Mods-1024x421.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kenwood-R-2000-Mods-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kenwood-R-2000-Mods-768x316.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kenwood-R-2000-Mods-624x257.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kenwood-R-2000-Mods.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Antonio Fernandez, who is in Spain, posted this on the Extreme page. Very interesting R-2000 mods:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Major modifications are adjustable RF GAIN (using the former TONE control), BFO Pitch control (former AM Squelch, FM Squelch is retained) and DSP Audio filtering for SSB and CW. Internal DSP module is SOTABEAMS Laserbeam Filter Module. The former DIMMER and NB push switches are used for switching on (bypassing) the DSP module and bandwidth (CW, SSB) selection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SKrJBoctASI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SKrJBoctASI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those are brilliant modifications on a classic receiver!\u00a0 Thank you for sharing, Dan!<\/p>\n<p>Check out more videos from Antonio Fernandez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCk-s2A1-jvNxaw-zm_VVjFA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on his YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following: Antonio Fernandez, who is in Spain, posted this on the Extreme page. Very interesting R-2000 mods: Major modifications are adjustable RF GAIN (using the former TONE control), BFO Pitch control (former AM Squelch, FM Squelch is retained) and DSP Audio filtering for SSB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,139,43,4796],"tags":[8451,2635,5403,8452,149,7183,7188],"class_list":["post-42892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-modifications","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-antonio-fernandez","tag-dan-robinson","tag-kenwood-r-2000","tag-kenwood-r-2000-mods","tag-mods","tag-r-2000","tag-radio-modifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b9O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33325,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/kenwood-r-2000-lukes-simple-fix-for-a-frozen-encoder\/","url_meta":{"origin":42892,"position":0},"title":"Kenwood R-2000: Luke&#8217;s simple fix for a frozen encoder","author":"Thomas","date":"July 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Luke Perry, who writes: Hi Thomas, I thought I would share with the people on the SWLing Post my new radio purchase. 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