Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:


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.



Not exactly. They make low-end professional cable headend equipment,
including modulators, IRDs, FM tuners, etc.