"Tim Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang
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I agree and use my R4B or R4A most of the time for SWL, next I use the Hammarlund HQ-145X. The drakes passband and notch are wonderful when you need to get rid of a local hetrodyne .. and in the 4.8 KC it sounds pretty good to me. 73 Tim K8WBL
From: Richard Loken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: n7ioh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [drakelist] R-4B Good for AM ??? Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:11:31 -0700 (MST)
Richard Loken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang
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On Sun, 30 May 2004, Garey Barrell wrote:
> If "full fidelity" AM is what you are looking for, consider instead > something like an HQ-129X (old), HQ-140X (not so old), NC-300 (NOT an > NC-303), 75A-1 or 75A-2, or 51J-3. ANY of these will give superior > performance _on AM_ to an R-4B, IF "full fidelity" AM is what you > want, at a penalty of size and/or expense for the Collins units.
The old cliche was that if you want to find it you want a Collins and if you want to listen to it you want a National. If beautiful AM was my desire then I would go for the National of the Hammarlund.
That being said, my R4 (not A not B certainly not C) sounds very nice when
tuned to an AM SWBC station. My standards are low, I would not want anything
better and when it comes to digging up SSB and CW DX it competes very well
with my buddy's IC-751A. All that from a 35 year old radio that sold new
for 150% of my father's monthly salary.
-- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS Athabasca University Athabasca, Alberta Canada ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
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