RadioBanter - Grove announces price for WR-G31DDC software defined receiver

On May 28, 7:12*am, dave wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
On May 27, 1:45 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 12:31:22 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen

*wrote:
On May 27, 11:30 am, wrote:
Grove announces price and availability for WR-G31DDC "Excalibur"
software defined receiver:http://www.grove-ent.com/shortwavereceivers.html

The screengrab pictures are sure pretty. *Any idea how they satck up
against the comp?

I think it is trying to compete with the Perseus. Don't appear to be
any prototypes floating around. The earlier WR-G313e has lower dynamic
range but the numbers on this model look promising. Hopefully QST or
Sherwood Engineering will test one when they are in production and
verify the numbers.

I volunteer to test one!

Jim

As far as numbers go (at the Sherwood site), the Elecraft looks plenty
hard to beat. *I wish they just made a stand-alone RX. *I'd even buy
the kit, and hopefully not screw it up!

I inquired. *A lot of the receive path goes backwards through the 10
Watt exciter board (filters, relays) and it is not feasible to offer the
radio without it. *For General Coverage you must add a wide IF filter
and a second set of input bandpass filters. *A little under $2K for a
radio that runs circles around many costing 2 or 3 (or more) times that
much money. *I suggest getting a General Class ham license (no code
required since 2007) and adopting a K3, if you have a true passion for
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Thanks for this. If I feel wealthy one day, I might just get one and
not use the transmitter (really no desire at all to talk back ;-).

Bruce