> Another good one (and much cheaper and easier to work on) > is the NC300/NC303 receivers.
The 303 is one of my personal favorites. Like most of the radios that have been discussed, it lacks a bit in the fidelity department, but it isn't bad (certainly not as bad as a 51J-4 or that ilk). Although like anything else, it's easy enough to tap the detector output and feed a decent audio system. Still, it has the smooth and wrist saving tuning "feel" of the SP-600, no stinkin' mechanical filters, and although you can't read the dial to +-200Hz, it's close enough. IF opens up to 8 Khz, plays quite well on AM (and CW/SSB), and is easy to service. Grant/NQ5T From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 31 14:27:48 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Delivered-To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Received: from rrcs-mta-04.hrndva.rr.com (rrcs-mta-04.hrndva.rr.com [24.28.200.156]) by mailman.qth.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D82859C1F for <amradio@mailman.qth.net>; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:27:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rrcs-fep-11.hrndva.rr.com (rrcs-fep-11b.hrndva.rr.com [172.28.200.149]) by rrcs-mta-04.hrndva.rr.com (8.13.5+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6VIGLjV007501 for <amradio@mailman.qth.net>; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:16:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontdesk ([24.242.159.230]) by rrcs-fep-11.hrndva.rr.com with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <amradio@mailman.qth.net>; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:16:20 -0400 From: "John E. Coleman (ARS WA5BXO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of AM Radio'" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Subject: RE: [AMRadio] Receivers Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:12:57 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-BeenThere: amradio@mailman.qth.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: Discussion of AM Radio <amradio@mailman.qth.net> List-Id: Discussion of AM Radio <amradio.mailman.qth.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/private/amradio> List-Post: <mailto:amradio@mailman.qth.net> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:27:48 -0000 I had both the NC300 and the NC303. The 303 was my favorite of the two. It seemed to have much better fidelity than the 300 but I only had the two of them and no others to compare to so there may have been a problem with my 300 and I have neither of them any more. John, WA5BXO