On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:34:00 GMT, wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:17:53 GMT, (George Blomfield)
wrote:

The Winradio has never been professionally reviewed. The IP3 sucks...
as do the rest of the published specs. Way way overpriced.

Not sure what you mean by "never professionally reviewed". Read the
current (2004) issue of WRTH. Is this professional enough? And the
other numerous reviews including one in Short Wave Magazine (also
available on http://www.winradio.com/home/g303i-reviews.htm)?

Problem is that no one makes a decent affordable SW receiver.
It isn't rocket science and this is 2004 isn't it?

I'd suggest that you look at Winradio G303i first, and *then* talk
about rocket science in 2004... ;-) Nothing comes close. Try it for
yourself, you'll see... :-)

George

I would love to see a ARRL tech review of the WR-G303i.
A review of the 1150i wasn't impressive.
I read the reviews on the Winradio wesbite- not impressed.

Where have we heard "the am synch loses lock" before? :-)

You picked up the only potentially negative point amongst a myriad of
overwhelmingly positive ones. Well please yourself.

But if you owned a G303 as I do, you would know that the AM
demodulator is so good, that there is no need for a synchronous one
anyway. I even wonder why Winradio bothered. You are better off simply
using LSB or USB if one of the side bands or the carrier are damaged.

LSB and USB are always tuned spot-on with the G303, so when you are
tuned to an AM station, switching to LSB or USB does not produce any
of the familiar beat frequency or distortion you would normally expect
to hear on other radios. You simply hear only the selected sideband
with perfect and equivalent audio quality. Now tell me with which of
your receivers you can do that (without the need to adjust the tuning
or the BFO, and without a perceptible difference in audio when you
toggle between LSB and USB).

And with which of your receivers you can also adjust the LSB or USB
filter bandwiths, continuously from 1 Hz to 15 kHz?

And with which of your receivers you can actually *see* the signal on
a calibrated real-time spectrum analyzer (with the filter bandwidth
shown superimposed) to see what is going on on the band?

But I guess you are still not impressed. Well, I surely am... ;-)

George