John Plimmer wrote:

Hava a look at an Icom IC-7200. It's a third generation DSP receiver
and works just champion, at a great price too.
It's several miles ahead of the old R8.

If you are talking about ham transceivers then the market is wide open.

The new Ten-Tec Eagle is a real contender, although it is close to the price
of an R8 or Kenwood R-5000 when they were new. That's a lot of money these
days.

Don't be fooled by the spec that there is "degraded performance" outside
the ham bands. Even with the degraded performance, as it were, it's still
quite a good receiver. Note the manual is unclear, you don't need to have
the add-on AM or FM filters for recepetion, only if you want to transmit
using those modes.

The ICOM IC-706 is a good one too, especially if you get the latest version
with all the DSP features. It's not much more than half the price of the
Ten-Tec and

Geoff.

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