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February 21st 04, 03:12 AM

Mike Knudsen

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(Judah Smith) writes:

Are you making fun of me? Out of curiousity, does anyone know
anything about this radio? Its sensitivity, selectivity....especially
on AM/SHORTWAVE? I listen to SSB on occasion, but mostly regular
shortwave stations.

Yes he's being funny. If it was a FRG-7 it wouldn't be so funny.

I believe it's a DX-200 I had once -- two drum dials, over and under. A very
sensitive and "hot" receiver, with its FET front end. Good SSB selectivity and
performance. AM selectivity is also tight -- maybe too tight, see below. ISTR
the BS dial carried both the Ham and SW BC calibrations.

I stopped using it and sold it because the audio BW was too wide for the rather
narrow AM IF BW. That is, the audio had lots more treble than the radio itself
could deliver from the signal, and the result was harsh to listen too. You
could probably hotwire a cap or two across the audio lines inside to cut the
freq response.

All in all, a nice little radio, given the usual image problems on the higher
bands with single conversion. Be prepared to spray lots of DeoxIt into the
linear bandswitches (same as with Panasonic units). BTW, Kenwood made a couple
sets that looked a lot like this one -- maybe they made it for Tandy.
73, Mike K. AA1UK

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