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Brian Hill wrote:
I just bought this and noticed all the Eaton and E1 ads. I
counted 18
plus
the review. Gee talk about overkill.

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I noticed that last year too. That Eton continues to be the
shortwave
radio advertiser in PWBR says a lot about how this hobby has
shrunk.
It also makes me wonder how they can give an independent
opinion
about
Eton products given that most of their ad revenue comes from
Eton.


I agree.

They had no problem ripping the S350 a new one
for shortwave performance. About the only good
thing they said about it was that it had good sound.


Designating the 350 Editors Choice isn't exactly comparable to
having a
new hole ripped in ones posterior.

Where it counts, it did. The review admitted that the 350
got the editor's choice because it had the best audio
south of a Sat 800, not because it was a single conversion
powerhouse. In the shortwave reception department,
the improvement from 2005 to 2006 was that it's a bit
more stable, but it still has images and in the modern
day and age, a $150 single conversion receiver is a bit
cheap. Hell, my DX-440 is a double conversion receiver,
and it ran for $199 (or $149 on sale) back in 1989, with
(nowadays) older technology. The fact that in the
guts of the receiver the only thing going for it are
looks and sound does not bode well. You take away
the sound, you take away the Editor's Choice designation.

--Mike L.