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".

No, he said that he sold a large collection of radios. His receiver
needs as defined were modest - for general SWLing I think was the
term. Most of us can listen to a lot of shortwave stations on the
receivers I provided.



That implies he is asking about a better than average receiver.

There was no such inference that I could read.

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.

I can't read into his intentions beyond what was stated. Some people
will spend $2,000 and more on a middling shortwave receiver like a
Sony CRF320.



Michael