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Just got a new old radio...SX-190
An Allied SX-190. This radio, while not quite the best thing out
there, was pretty darn good for 1970's vintage, and had some nice features - HAS some nice features - that helped the DX. Just got me one in really nice shape. Clean as a whistle, sensitive, and everything works. The guy who sold it to me did some of the mods on it to sweeten the thing up, and it sounds great. It doesn't have all the modern bells and whistles, but it has decent selectivity with its mechanical filters, tunes easily and accurately to within 0.5 kHz (try that with almost any other consumer-grade analogue RX) and it sounds clean and clear with its matching speaker. Overloads a little bit on 31 meters, and maybe on 41 and 49. Easily resolved by putting the AF Gain all the way up and using the RF gain for volume control. Just listened to VOA Botswana relay on 9885, BBC from Cyprus on 12035 sandwiched between VoRs powerhouses 5 kHz up and down, and a bunch of other good stuff. Hams sound like they're in the room with me. This thing is FUN, and is a real pip :-) Bruce Jensen |