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What do you mean "non-consumer radio"?
Universal Radio sold these:
http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...r/nrd302a.html
The receivers target was the Maritime Mobile Service.

You answered your own question. They were basically made for use onboard
ships, and were insanely expensive. Part of the high cost is for JRC
stocking spare parts for far longer than they do for the consumer
radios.


Part of it is just companies seem to pay big bucks without blinking. I
worked for one company that bought over 800 high end surge protectors
for the full list price of nearly $200 each plus they stupidly had them
overnighted 3 MONTHS before they needed them at the new building! I
could buy them in single quantity for $84 and some odd cents, with free
UPS shipping. If I would have bought 800, I could have gotten them for a
little over $70 each. They did that kind of stuff over and over again. I
had a truckbed full of the nearly new surge protectors they dumped in
the trash when they bought the new ones. I sold them at a computer show,
$50 for the really nice ones, and $40 for the "okay" ones, and $30 for
the rough looking ones. I was sold out in an hour, and had a huge chunk
of cash in my pocket.


I was seriously thinking about going to the big boss one morning and
showing them how much I could save them a year by just buying smart, but
never did, and they went bankrupt soon after that anyway. I just took
the stuff I knew they bought all the time, office supplies, etc, and it
was easily into the $100,000+ range an hour after I started adding up
the savings. I bet it would have been an easy half mill company wide.

Universal did sell a few of the high end JRC receivers, but they sold
vastly higher numbers of JRC's consumer radios, the NRD-515, and later
525, 535, and 545, probably the last model they will make, sadly.

The 515 is built like a tank compared to almost any other receiver,
except for the commercial and military ones. Mine is almost 25 years
old, and still going strong.

BDK




On 15 Mar 2007 17:37:43 -0700, "Roadie" wrote:

More than anything else it is a non-consumer radio, one designed for
the military, so it has the look that collectors like. And there were
few of them made. Will it catch more stations that a reasonably
priced tabletop? In one word - no. But collectors don't spend $6,000
on a radio because it will catch more stations than any other.

On Mar 15, 8:45 pm, "Brian O" wrote:
Can I ask a dumb question? I'm looking over the specs and they don't seem
inordinately very good compared to other radios. What makes this radio so
worth the price?. The SSB sensitivity is not as good as the radio I have.
The selectivity seems to be better but with SW signals at least 5khz wide
that wont make much difference if your sensitivity is not low enough. Does
it have variable IF bandpass? Or variable audio filtering? Is it because of
the tuning steps? 1 hz steps seems to be overkill. I mean what kind of
reception warrants those kind of specs especially with mediocre sensitivity?
I'm listening....
B

"dxAce" wrote in message

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Dan Robinson wrote:

Not sure what price it finally went for as
there was only one bidder, but it was listed
BUY IT NOW at $5995....this for a NRD-302A
NEW IN BOX -- probably the rarest of the rare...

One bid, eBay shows it as $6000.000. Item # 170090901158

http://cgi.ebay.com/JRC-NRD-302A-Rec...spkr-cabinet_W....
mZ170090901158QQcategoryZ4673QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrd Z1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=ite*m
170090901158





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