Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
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.


A ham-bands centric receiver with an 8 or 9 MHz I.F. can receive HFBC
frequencies, but with varying degrees of degraded performance due to the
bandpass filtering in the front end. Elecraft offers an optional set of
General Coverage bandpass filters which are automatically switched into
the signal path when scanning outside the ham bands.

The TenTec doesn't offer that option at first glance.

I don't work at Elecraft, just supporting a home-grown business a few
miles up the El Camino Real (aka US Rt 101) who happens to build the
best receiver anywhere at any price. It is a tiny company run by a
handful of people serving a fiercely obsessed niche market. Good example
for the kids.

http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?t=151448

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