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Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
John Plimmer wrote: Hava a look at an Icom IC-7200. It's a third generation DSP receiver and works just champion, at a great price too. It's several miles ahead of the old R8. If you are talking about ham transceivers then the market is wide open. The new Ten-Tec Eagle is a real contender, although it is close to the price of an R8 or Kenwood R-5000 when they were new. That's a lot of money these days. Don't be fooled by the spec that there is "degraded performance" outside the ham bands. Even with the degraded performance, as it were, it's still quite a good receiver. Note the manual is unclear, you don't need to have the add-on AM or FM filters for recepetion, only if you want to transmit using those modes. A ham-bands centric receiver with an 8 or 9 MHz I.F. can receive HFBC frequencies, but with varying degrees of degraded performance due to the bandpass filtering in the front end. Elecraft offers an optional set of General Coverage bandpass filters which are automatically switched into the signal path when scanning outside the ham bands. The TenTec doesn't offer that option at first glance. I don't work at Elecraft, just supporting a home-grown business a few miles up the El Camino Real (aka US Rt 101) who happens to build the best receiver anywhere at any price. It is a tiny company run by a handful of people serving a fiercely obsessed niche market. Good example for the kids. http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?t=151448 http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6673 |
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