Again, I'm glad we don't share the same opinion. Just wait until I run
the SW8A on ebay, guess you will come out and whine some more.....

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in the past few minutes I found THREE R8B's that sold for less than
$900, two on ebay and one from universal:

http://www.universal-radio.com/used/sold122.html

so $350 for a useless VHF converter and bad speaker is not good
purchasing.