On Feb 28, 6:25*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:51:20 -0800 (PST), David

wrote:
On Feb 28, 6:38 pm, SW4ever wrote:
...Get a look at the ICOM R-9500 receiver Owners Manual, in PDF format
at: *http://radioworld.caand navigate your way to Icom 9500 site,
and scroll to left for pdf brochure and/or manual. The manual runs to
almost an incredible 200 Pages...WOW
This receiver is amazing..it does everything except wash your car and
win you the lottery (which you'll need if you hope to buy one).

Probably be hard in a " blind shortwave test" to differentiate between
this one
an R8
& an Icom R75

Okay folks.........get ready for yet another round of the R75 vs R8
debate.

- As to the blind test I would be more than happy to participate,
- I'll bring an R75, 100 feet of wire and an ICE 182 along with
- some rope & insulators etc to put up the test antenna. *

GH - For a 'true' Side-by-Side using one Antenna you will
need some sort of an Antenna Splitter/Combiner :

The RF Systems SP-2 2-Way Antenna Splitter might help
so that you can use the same Antenna, MT and Feed-in-Line
and do an actual side-by-side for the two radios.
-or- RF Systems SP-1 Splitter/Combiner;
LF Engineering SPL-2/50L VLF-HF Two-Way Splitter/Combiner

The only other 'cheap-and-dirty' way is to simply use 100 Feet
of 300 Ohm Twin Lead -or- 450 Ohm Ladder-Line. +plus+
Use a a common 8-Foot Ground Rod for 'both' Receivers.
Use the Receiver's HI-Z Terminals for the Antenna Inputs.
* One of the Parallel Wires to One Receiver and the
* 'other' Parallel Wire to the 'other' Receiver.
=YES= I know it ain't perfect but it does work better than
a single Wire Antenna Element etc; and then Switching
back-and-forth between the two receivers.

~ RHF