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November 26th 03, 01:03 AM

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(Art Harris) wrote:

Pappy127 wrote:
Hi Bob, I use my kenwood ts-570 for short-wave receiving.

Why buy what you already have unless your interested in monitoring
several frequencies at the same time.

Exactly. If you're going to buy a modern hf ham rig, you will
automatically get a good general coverage shortwave receiver.

While ham transceivers won't have *all* the features of a
top-of-the-line receiver, it will provide solid performance in terms
of dynamic range, sensitivity, selectivity, frequency stability, etc.
Sure, synchronous AM is a nice feature, but is it worth shelling out
$500 to $1000 dollars in addition to what the ham transceiver costs?

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I say yes but maybe that's because I live where signals are weaker and
fade more often.

Even the AM broadcast band is a problem around here evenings. Examples
are 640 KFI in LA and 600 KOGO from San Diego, which put in strong
signals daytime most evenings have terrible interference between the
ground wave and sky wave. On other stations and short wave it's just
the usual selective fading problem.

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Telamon
Ventura, California