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dxAce · February 25th 08, 11:52 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

Bart Bailey wrote:

In

posted on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:10:55 -0800 (PST),
wrote: Begin

and some,like me, have
migrated
to using the latest ham transceivers.

When I assembled my latest radio room almost three years ago,
XCVRs were a given and the RCV only eTón E1 was an afterthought,
now in retrospect it seem to have been a good allocation of resources as
an SWL station too. I seldom tune in for scheduled broadcasts these days
like back in the 2010 days of yore (1980s) with most current SWLing
being a cursory sweep of the bands while doing some HAMming, so the E1
that serves for casual AM/FM-BCB listening is more than adequate even
with its lack of noise reduction capabilities. I suppose serious HF
monitoring would include a backyard Wullenwebber, but I have my limited
antenna farm space dedicated to HAM band application (resonances) and
SWL RCV is a compromise of whatever gets the most metal into the air.
The disparity of reviews between XCVRs and RCVRs could also have to do
with the orientation of that site (eHam) and its awareness in the
amateur community versus SWLers, whom might not frequent HAM pages as
much.

I'd have to agree that few SWL's are going to frequent eHam, so therefore the
number of reviews is going to be skewed toward transceivers.

dxAce
Michigan
USA