Kenwood TS-590 finalized specs

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Here are some finalized specs and release notes on the TS-590 Coming in October
August 13, 2010 | News Release | Corporate Information | Kenwood Corporation
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And Tokyo ham fair video from this weekend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uba4V61kpJw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1XuxIUFqEE

The price on the Japanese home site is $600 higher than the $1800 projected price and any info is conspicuously missing from the US site
Who's going to be the first to find out if it is a K3 Killer?

 

[Moleculo]

Here's google's attempt to translate:

Google Translate

I don't think Kenwood is trying to make it a K3 "Killer", but I did hear the rep at Dayton say that it was approaching K3 specs. We'll see...

 

[0x33f]

Thanks for posting the translator it didn't work when i tried posting my firefox translation.

I don't think Kenwood is trying to make it a K3 "Killer", but I did hear the rep at Dayton say that it was approaching K3 specs. We'll see...

I sure hope not cause i just sunk some coin into a K3 But i doubt they can do it.