Peter Maus wrote:

Eric F. Richards wrote:
Actually I didn't use the HF-150 all that much -- I found it to be a
pain to tune and that it was too drifty to hold lock with sync AM
until the thing had been on for an hour or so.



Really. Exactly opposite my experience.


I do run it off a huge regulated power supply at 14V rather than
12V. That may have something to do with it. My 7030+ is similarly
stable at the top of it's operating voltage.


Well, I'm running off 250 Ah of gel-cells, and they hold near 13.5
most of the time...

But that was my experience regardless of input supply. I was just
fortunate that when I had it on display at the hamfest where it
ultimately sold that it warmed up and stabilized as well as it did.
At the other end of the 'fest there was a guy with an AM
transmitter...



My "goto" radio is usually the '8500. But the '340 can't be beat for
getting the signal out from under the noise. I had an amusing moment
when listening to 11.175 and some aircraft and Offutt were being
jammed and couldn't hear each other, yet I'd cancelled, notched, and
bandpassed everything out and heard them both as armchair copy.



Outstanding. Have you had a chance to play with RX-350? Not
quite as tasty as RX-340. Then again, not quite price tag, either.

Only at Ten-Tec last Christmas. Since I was looking for a radio with
a bulletproof front end, I was only considering the '340. I was sure
that, as nice as the '350 is, I would have a severe case of the "If
only I bought."
--
Eric F. Richards

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