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KW2000B for sale
Excellent condition. Available in the US. Ship to US and Canada only!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=230267922903 |
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KW2000B for sale
Don Bowey wrote:
On 7/8/08 5:26 AM, in article , "NoMoreSpam" wrote: Excellent condition. Available in the US. Ship to US and Canada only! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=230267922903 It very much appears to be "for auction," not "for sale." With a start price as high as that "for sale" is probably an apt description ....... Steve H |
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KW2000B for sale
On Jul 8, 9:21 am, Don Bowey wrote:
On 7/8/08 5:26 AM, in article , "NoMoreSpam" wrote: Excellent condition. Available in the US. Ship to US and Canada only! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=230267922903 It very much appears to be "for auction," not "for sale." A nicely made radio anyway! I once had a mint set of KW Electronics Twins. The KW Altanta looks like a Swan 500, well similiar:-) I shudda kept those as they were rare & beautifully made. GL with the Auction. Rich |
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FYI, FWIW..the Grundig G5 SWL receiver
Yesterday I bought, from a local Radio Shack, a Grundig G5 SWL receiver and found myself quite pleased with it and decided to share this with y'all. $150. For some time I was looking for a replacement, new portable SWL receiver for my old GE portable SWL receiver (runs on 6 D cells, about the size of two big Kleenex boxes, and all of its switches, pots, varicaps are now all noisy as hell and hard to do anything with, plus other problems). I was very interested to see, recently, that some (ham) handi-talkies now have SWL capability, and even SSB/CW capability. So, I was thinking about those, too, but the ones I asked about are about $300 each. More than I wanted to sink into a toy of this nature. While in the RS store, they had a G5 sitting on the shelf and with good batteries in it (a good omen) and in ten minutes of fiddling with all the buttons to see how much I could figure out without reading the manual, I was encouraged to give it a try. You could not hear squat in the store, maybe because most of these new stores have metal 2x4s, metal roofs, and local electrical noise, but I had the hunch that maybe this thing was going to be decent. Here's the short skinny: Its about the size of two king-sized cig packages. 4-AA cells. Comes with its own walwart AC supply. Really nice performance on features I was interested in. the PLL local oscillators allow _continuous_ tunning from 150 kc to 29999 kc, on AM and SSB (and CW), and in one-kc readout steps on the digital frequency read out. For SSB and CW fine tuning, there is a vernier bandspread knob on the side which seems to give you something like a +/- 2 kc range for RIT, so you can get SSB stations tuned in if they are not on exact 1 kc frequencies (lovely!). It has an AM "bandswitch" button that cycles you up through starting frequencies of the major SW bands so you can tune to where you want to be more quickly. The manual tells how to do direct keyboard entry if you know the frequency you want to all digets, and that works, too. It also has 700 memories but I have not tried to learn the complicated process to use them. So, sitting in my livingroom favorite chair (house is wood frame construction, no sheilding problems), I was tuning up and down the 80-75 meter to 20 meter CW and SSB bands, and with the built in three foot extendable "whip" antenna alone, was copying a large number of all of these stations (when the bands were open) all over. The frequency was also stable, at least over the time periods I was listening. Signal strength, receiver sensitivity was better than I expected. There is a built in "S meter" with bar levels, but you only get five groups spread out from 1-9 (but, what else do you need?). There is a two step switch for IF selectivity. Narrow (voice) and wide (music) that (I did not measure) feels like maybe 5-7 kc on narrow, maybe 10-15 on wide. You can easily tune both LSB and USB with the vernier frequency. But, in wall-to-wall crowded conditions, might give you trouble (qrm). It also tunes the standard broadcast FM band (88-108), and in stereo. There is a "local-dx" switch for attenuation for close, strong signals. Downside: there are birdies and PLL noise all over the bands, poor image rejection below 550 kc, and birdies worse in some segments than others, but for the price and size, I'll live with that. There is a "lock" button that kills all access to anything and you have to read the manual to get it unlocked so don't push the lock button if you play with one. IIRC, you have to press and hold that button for more than 3 seconds to get it to unlock everything. I had the impression that the receiver might be usable in a portable situation (eg motel, vacation) if you could bring a transmitter along and suitable antenna. The receiver has jacks for earphone, ext antenna, DC input, etc. An external narrow audio filter might help in the CW band if it is crowded. Last but not least, I am not affiliated with Grundig, not related to anyone there in any way, this is not a post in response to some favor they did for me, in any way, shape or form. This is a pure FYI, FWIW "I was pleased with the unit" report and I'm going to have a lot of fun with it. |
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FYI, FWIW..the Grundig G5 SWL receiver
On Jul 10, 10:07 am, A wrote:
Yesterday I bought, from a local Radio Shack, a Grundig G5 SWL receiver and found myself quite pleased with it and decided to share this with y'all. $150. For some time I was looking for a replacement, new portable SWL receiver for my old GE portable SWL receiver (runs on 6 D cells, about the size of two big Kleenex boxes, and all of its switches, pots, varicaps are now all noisy as hell and hard to do anything with, plus other problems). I was very interested to see, recently, that some (ham) handi-talkies now have SWL capability, and even SSB/CW capability. So, I was thinking about those, too, but the ones I asked about are about $300 each. More than I wanted to sink into a toy of this nature. While in the RS store, they had a G5 sitting on the shelf and with good batteries in it (a good omen) and in ten minutes of fiddling with all the buttons to see how much I could figure out without reading the manual, I was encouraged to give it a try. You could not hear squat in the store, maybe because most of these new stores have metal 2x4s, metal roofs, and local electrical noise, but I had the hunch that maybe this thing was going to be decent. Here's the short skinny: Its about the size of two king-sized cig packages. 4-AA cells. Comes with its own walwart AC supply. Really nice performance on features I was interested in. the PLL local oscillators allow _continuous_ tunning from 150 kc to 29999 kc, on AM and SSB (and CW), and in one-kc readout steps on the digital frequency read out. For SSB and CW fine tuning, there is a vernier bandspread knob on the side which seems to give you something like a +/- 2 kc range for RIT, so you can get SSB stations tuned in if they are not on exact 1 kc frequencies (lovely!). It has an AM "bandswitch" button that cycles you up through starting frequencies of the major SW bands so you can tune to where you want to be more quickly. The manual tells how to do direct keyboard entry if you know the frequency you want to all digets, and that works, too. It also has 700 memories but I have not tried to learn the complicated process to use them. So, sitting in my livingroom favorite chair (house is wood frame construction, no sheilding problems), I was tuning up and down the 80-75 meter to 20 meter CW and SSB bands, and with the built in three foot extendable "whip" antenna alone, was copying a large number of all of these stations (when the bands were open) all over. The frequency was also stable, at least over the time periods I was listening. Signal strength, receiver sensitivity was better than I expected. There is a built in "S meter" with bar levels, but you only get five groups spread out from 1-9 (but, what else do you need?). There is a two step switch for IF selectivity. Narrow (voice) and wide (music) that (I did not measure) feels like maybe 5-7 kc on narrow, maybe 10-15 on wide. You can easily tune both LSB and USB with the vernier frequency. But, in wall-to-wall crowded conditions, might give you trouble (qrm). It also tunes the standard broadcast FM band (88-108), and in stereo. There is a "local-dx" switch for attenuation for close, strong signals. Downside: there are birdies and PLL noise all over the bands, poor image rejection below 550 kc, and birdies worse in some segments than others, but for the price and size, I'll live with that. There is a "lock" button that kills all access to anything and you have to read the manual to get it unlocked so don't push the lock button if you play with one. IIRC, you have to press and hold that button for more than 3 seconds to get it to unlock everything. I had the impression that the receiver might be usable in a portable situation (eg motel, vacation) if you could bring a transmitter along and suitable antenna. The receiver has jacks for earphone, ext antenna, DC input, etc. An external narrow audio filter might help in the CW band if it is crowded. Last but not least, I am not affiliated with Grundig, not related to anyone there in any way, this is not a post in response to some favor they did for me, in any way, shape or form. This is a pure FYI, FWIW "I was pleased with the unit" report and I'm going to have a lot of fun with it. I cannot understand why you changed the heading and not just start your own posting to advertise this SS, modern receiver on the Boatanchors forum? |
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FYI, FWIW..the Grundig G5 SWL receiver
On Jul 10, 10:07 am, A wrote:
Yesterday I bought, from a local Radio Shack, a Grundig G5 SWL receiverand found myself quite pleased with it and decided to share this with y'all. $150.... Richie wrote: I cannot understand why you changed the heading and not just start your own posting to advertise this SS, modern receiver on the Boatanchors forum? It's the kind of receiver boatanchor guys like to have around when they are not up to hauling the vacuum-tube beasties out on a picnic but want to listen-in to the nightly cacophony on 80 meters?? Jim, K7JEB |
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FYI, FWIW..the Grundig G5 SWL receiver
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jim, K7JEB wrote: On Jul 10, 10:07 am, A wrote: Yesterday I bought, from a local Radio Shack, a Grundig G5 SWL receiverand found myself quite pleased with it and decided to share this with y'all. $150.... Richie wrote: I cannot understand why you changed the heading and not just start your own posting to advertise this SS, modern receiver on the Boatanchors forum? It's the kind of receiver boatanchor guys like to have around when they are not up to hauling the vacuum-tube beasties out on a picnic but want to listen-in to the nightly cacophony on 80 meters?? Jim, K7JEB Jim, I interpret your comments as seeing what I was trying to do...just share that this would be a nice little receiver with serious enough capability for a range of capability including "reading the mail" on ham bands. If I were to guess what is bothering Richie, it is that some newsreaders and news handling services handle some posts based on internal ID numbers rather than subject lines and other ISP services handle these the other way around. I have no idea why people get bent out of shape so much if something shows up in their thread that makes no sense because their service holds a post in a thread even though the subject line changes. I am still tickled to pieces with my G5. Almost fee like a kid, again, with a precious new toy. |
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FYI, FWIW..the Grundig G5 SWL receiver
On Jul 11, 9:15 pm, A wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jim, K7JEB wrote: On Jul 10, 10:07 am, A wrote: Yesterday I bought, from a local Radio Shack, a Grundig G5 SWL receiverand found myself quite pleased with it and decided to share this with y'all. $150.... Richie wrote: I cannot understand why you changed the heading and not just start your own posting to advertise this SS, modern receiver on the Boatanchors forum? It's the kind of receiver boatanchor guys like to have around when they are not up to hauling the vacuum-tube beasties out on a picnic but want to listen-in to the nightly cacophony on 80 meters?? Jim, K7JEB Jim, I interpret your comments as seeing what I was trying to do...just share that this would be a nice little receiver with serious enough capability for a range of capability including "reading the mail" on ham bands. If I were to guess what is bothering Richie, it is that some newsreaders and news handling services handle some posts based on internal ID numbers rather than subject lines and other ISP services handle these the other way around. I have no idea why people get bent out of shape so much if something shows up in their thread that makes no sense because their service holds a post in a thread even though the subject line changes. I am still tickled to pieces with my G5. Almost fee like a kid, again, with a precious new toy. Hi A; I have no problem with reading your info about this receiver & cud care less where you posted it. Each to thier own. I just figured you'd get more exposure iffin you started your own post & not dump on some one else's is all. No Harm done. I have a few Older SS SW receivers that I use also like my CRF-150 Sony, its big enough to almost qualify as BA Status, hi! Rich |
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FYI, FWIW..the Grundig G5 SWL receiver
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Dan, W2IQD wrote: A wrote: I am still tickled to pieces with my G5. Almost fee like a kid, again, with a precious new toy. Many thanks for your post! I've been looking around for a decent rx just like this that doesnt cost a fortune or weigh 100 pounds. I'm going to buy one tomorrow! 73, Dan I'm glad someone out there (you) felt that my enthusiastic report was worth something. 73 |
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