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Drake R8B on eBay
wrote: wrote: Geary Morton wrote: In article .com, wrote: Some people are paying more for the Drake R8B used than it sold for when new??? Do it's signal catching abilities improve with age and use? It has apparently attained collectible status alongside other notables like the Panasonic RF9000, Sony CRF330 and Zenith TO with performance apparently a secondary issue. Uh, I don't think performance is a secondary issue, rather it's the primary issue. The 'performance' of an R8B is competitive if not superior in some ways to anything currently being offered by anyone. At those prices performance would have to be a secondary issue because comparable reception performance could be gotten from several other discontinued high-end receivers. And that is the price for a used receiver not a new one. I don't know of any radio for the same (albeit inflated) price that offers more, and there is certainly NO comparison between it and any of the other radios you list, IMHO. The radios including the Drake were listed mostly because collector interest has pushed the price beyond anything that makes sense. Those radios perform no better now than when new and indeed they are all gradually aging. Geary Dan Robinson wrote: I think the high prices for the R8B are a bit excessive -- it's a great receiver, but these days, with SW on the way out, there is not much a R8B can do that a R8 or R8A cannot. Or high-end receivers from several other companies that bailed out of the HF radio market before Drake did. Gawd... you're more of a damn whiner than Maghakian is. dxAce Michigan USA |
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