I would like to hope that Icom will announce another high performing
receiver, but I think they are discontinuing it because of lack of
demand. Kenwood departed from the SWL market a decade ago after
producing one of the finest receivers ever to hit the amateur market -
the R5000.

If Taesu is gone (I don't know that) I guess this leaves AOR and Japan
Radio as makers of high performance shortwave receivers.


Invader3K wrote:
My question is...the R75 seems to still be a very popular receiver.
Why
would they discontinue it at this point? It's not all that old even,
is
it?

Someone earlier asked about the Yaesu FRG-100...I believe that one is
discontinued as well. Passport 2005 mentions that.