|
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
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... |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
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-Receiver-New-in-Box-w-spkr-cabinet_W0QQitemZ170090901158QQcategoryZ4673QQssPa geNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item170090901 158 dxAce Michigan USA |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
|
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
I agree on the R8s and especially the
R7/A -- but I have to say that when I am using my 301A it feels like I'm driving a Maserati... |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
So does my Drake R7a with my Drake RV75 and Sherwood SE-3 Synch detector.
Very few can burn rubber like this setup. It does the quarter mile in low 10's. "Dan Robinson" wrote in message ... I agree on the R8s and especially the R7/A -- but I have to say that when I am using my 301A it feels like I'm driving a Maserati... |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
I think it's part performance, and part cosmetics...
it is a beautifully-designed radio... 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 ... 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...abinet_W0QQite mZ170090901158QQcategoryZ4673QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrd Z1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item 170090901158 dxAce Michigan USA |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
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 ... 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 dxAce Michigan USA- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
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 ... 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...abinet_W0QQite mZ170090901158QQcategoryZ4673QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrd Z1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item 170090901158 dxAce Michigan USA |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
I guess a collector wouldn't. Looking at it from the point of a DXer/SWLer,
it doesn't make sense. The new Icom would seem to be a better receiver for the money, but I haven't used one as yet. I use my xcvr as my SW rxvr and it works quite well, at least when it has an antenna tied to it. B "Roadie" wrote in message oups.com... 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 ... 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 dxAce Michigan USA- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
BDK wrote: In article , says... 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. Do you remember the 505? dxAce Michigan USA |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
You have to hand it to LARDboy edwennie,the auld boy sticks in there.
Hey,I own a 12 horse power Briggs & Stratton twin cylinder engine.I think I need to build a little tree wheeler car.I can buy a Comet automatic clutch/transmission thangy.Earth girls wheels and scrap iron are easy at the junk yards. .......Larry |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
In article ,
says... BDK wrote: In article , says... 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. Do you remember the 505? dxAce Michigan USA Yeah, but they are rare and $$$$ even now. I'd like to have one though. There's an oddball that looks like a restyled 515 and 505 cross too, I think it's the 63, I saw one at a hamfest once a long time ago. Looks like the "daddy" of the 515. I wish I had grabbed it up, but 1000 bucks was out of the question. BDK |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
BDK wrote: In article , says... BDK wrote: In article , says... 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. Do you remember the 505? dxAce Michigan USA Yeah, but they are rare and $$$$ even now. I'd like to have one though. I remember when GilFer was selling them. For those who wish to know what a 505 looks like: http://www.dxing.com/rx/nrd345.htm Scroll down... dxAce Michigan USA |
JRC Radio Sets Record on Ebay
What's rare if you can buy it cheap (two or three or four dollars) at
the Goodwill store? That woman in Paris,Frogland is crazy.She needs to stay off the streets! cuhulin |
| All times are GMT +1. The time now is 11:23 PM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
RadioBanter.com