Justis wrote:
I have an Icom R 71A with the memory board mod and audio upgrades. Would
the Drake receive better than my Icom? The drake sure doesn't look as
professional.

You're right. The Drake looks like a home satellite TV receiver. That's because
at the time Drake was making only high end home satellite TV receivers. Their
days of making ham or SW radios were long over.

So they decided that your average SWL would want a radio that looked like
the rest of their audio equipment and was 100% remote controllable. It even
came with a remote control like a satellite receiver.

Ergonomicaly, it's either wonderful or terrible depending upon how you
feel a radio should feel. Either way inside is a top notch recevier.

Note that they made them for around 15 years in several variants.
In the US there was an R8, RA8 and R8B. There also was an R8E sold in
Europe (based on the original R8), although all of them work on 230
volts.

Geoff.



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