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BDK[_7_] · September 22nd 11, 06:21 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

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On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:10:05 -0400, BDK wrote:

That's all you had to say.

When I recommend black boxes it's for younger people looking at bang-for-
the buck (or people getting all wet about the performance of an antique).
They aren't obsessed with big knobs. I have real analog everything.

I have several young friends that started out with SDR type radios and
as soon as they could, they bought a "big knob" radio, as they are much
more pleasnt to actually tune around with, and use the SDR type radios
to sit on freqs or to decode some diigital mode. Using a mouse or a
keyboard to tune a radio is awkward at best, and horrible at the worst.
One of them has my old Icom R71a that I bought on Ebay years ago that
seldom worked for a super cheap price. I had it working fine in minutes,
it was just a bad ground. The only thing wrong with it was it reeked of
cigarette smoke. I put the case in the dishwasher, it came out a totally
different color, and took the front panel and knobs and put them in warm
soapy water that went from clear to looking like coffee in a half hour.
It still has a very slight tobacco smell 7 or so years later, but it's
not too bad and looks and works great. It had been modded by EEB when
bought new, and had the FL-44 filter in it. A total shock to me when I
started taking it apart, as that filter is expensive.

Then there are the radios with knobs, but with unpleasant menus to deal
with, kind of a half good/half bad set up that needed to be better
thought out before they built it.

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