On Feb 25, 10:42 pm, (Michael Black) wrote:
"Roadie" ) writes:
On Feb 25, 6:40 pm, "3D" wrote:
All three of the radios I suggested have a built-in antenna system.

I think he wants to actually hear signals.

Unless you know him to be hearing impaired he should be able to hear
plenty of signals with any of those radios I mentioned. After all he
was only looking for a radio to just do some swling. Why compromise
the audio quality with a communications receiver like a Drake unless
it is really needed. Such a radio would be a complete waste of money
for the application he described.

But he's talking about a $2000 budget, and picking one receiver out of a
"large collection".

That implies he is asking about a better than average receiver. It's
a variant on "which receiver would you keep?" or "which receiver do
you lust after?".

There's little point in specifying a $2000 budget if he's not actually
interested in one of those better receivers.

Michael

Maybe what you really need to do is make sure you got a nice quiet
piece of land somewhere far away from the city. Then a good antenna
and a decent receiver. One of those crappy little chinese radios
actually do a nice job in a quiet zone. I especially like it when the
power goes out cause things get nice and quiet.

73
NEO

On Feb 25, 8:02 pm, "N9NEO" wrote:

Maybe what you really need to do is make sure you got a nice quiet
piece of land somewhere far away from the city. Then a good antenna
and a decent receiver. One of those crappy little chinese radios
actually do a nice job in a quiet zone. I especially like it when the
power goes out cause things get nice and quiet.

73

No kiddin'. I have heard plenty of stuff on my R75 here in suburban
CA, USA to be sure, but back in rural New England as a teenager, I
heard practically as much on a Radio Shack Astronaut-8 and 50 feet of
wire, just because the noise background was about 30-60 dB lower than
here.

Bruce Jensen