"Telamon" wrote in message
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Nice radios. Drake's are the best.

Well, an R8B would be the best. My R8 is not the best radio I have.

Please explain how precisely tuning in a station improves reception
during selective fading. This makes no sense to me.

I can't explain it. All I know is that the 2100 using the bandspread
sometimes gives me a better signal than the 800 using the sync. They are
both using their internal whip antennas, and are side by side on the table.
The 2100 performs *much* better than the 800 without using the 800's sync.
Selective fading is much less drastic. Turning on the sync on the 800
*usually* makes it perform better than the 2100, but not *always*.

Mike