Les:
To be fair, it must be remembered that much of what you call the 'sand state
stuff' is intentionally deafened on MW or below. I have several boatanchors
as well and I love 'em, but above 2 MHz my solid state stuff pretty much
leaves them in the dust, especially for selectivity. The shape factor of
those old xtal filters was not very impressive.

Having said that, I still love to fire up the Halli, Hammer or Collins and
cruise the bands.

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

"Llgpt" wrote in message
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You are correct on that, I have been using a SP-600 for many, many years
on bcb
dx and find it to be better than most of the sand state stuff out there.



Les Locklear
Gulfport, Ms.