Some of you have been contemplating upgrading to a serious tabletop
receiver, like the NRD 545D, AOR7030+ or even an Icom 756 PRO III.
But I must tell you that in the MW DX circles that I am active in very
many of my co-DXer's have moved to the RFspace SDR-IQ in the last
eighteen months and quite rave about it. These fella's are the top
DXer's in the world and are getting amazing results from this modestly
priced computer receiver.

Apart from being a highly adequate receiver it has the huge advantage
that you can record a 190 Khz spectrum of the band. This has enormous
advantages for DXer's as stations usually only ID identify at the TOH
top of the hour, so listening on a conventional receiver you are
limited as to how many stations you may catch and record for QSL
purposes in such a brief time.

But with the SDR-IQ you record a whole segment for a few minutes
before the hour and then play it back later and analyse it and get a
whole bunch of ID's that was never possible before = amazing!

For more details on this SDR receiver see:
http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0106.html
http://www.rfspace.com/sdriq.html

There are drawbacks though - you need a decent PC/laptop plus a
massive 500Gb hardisk as the recordings are huge.

Have fun and good DX

John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
RX Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods
Drake SW8 & ERGO software
Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Redsun RP2100
BW XCR 30, Sangean 803A.
GE circa 50's radiogram
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro Mk II, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop, PAORDT Roelof mini-whip
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx