tommyknocker wrote in message
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R.F. Collins wrote:

Kenwood makes receivers as long as you buy a transmitter too. They
make a TS570D transceiver that has an excellent general coverage
receiver with DSP and was a bargain at under 900 dollars earlier in
the year. I have used it for ham radio and its passband tuning (DSP
slope tune) is very effective at cutting out adjacent signals. They
also make a TS870 and TS2000.

It seems manufacturers have cut funding for shortwave receivers and
are only upgrading their transceiver lines. Icom for instance with its
new million yen IC-7800 unit.

A million yen? That's $10,000! Who says amateur radio is dead?

Yea... Icom was pricing the market before crash---let's see how many of
those aging Ham Yuppies will snap them up now!

RG