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Try an SX-190. Analog all the way, and rock stable because the first
oscillator is crystal controlled. Nice, big, solid metal knob for tuning. The dial on mine is accurate to within a kHz or so from one end of any 500 kHz band to the other. There is a built in calibrator that gives you 100 KHz and 25 kHz markers. I also have a synthesized Sony radio. It has no tuning knob, only a keypad, so tuning is either by direct freq entry or holding a button down until the radio starts scanning. If you step up or down it goes in 5 kHz hops. There is a pot you can use to fine tune +/- 3 kHz or so it seems. There is a switch that allows 9 kHz channel hopping on the MW band, but it is located behind the batteries inside the radio. I used to have an R1051b. A brute of a receiver. Worked great, but tuning was a major pain. I was using dumbells to build up my forearms so I could tune the thing. I don't think there is a more stable radio than that one. The ISB mode -both sidebands through two separate detectors and audio paths allows for very accurate exhalted carrier AM listening. Tuning in that mode is very interesting- as you move the frequency the audio appears garbled in one ear then moves to both ears and becomes ungarbled, then moves out the other ear becoming garbled again. Great for stereo headphone listening! MR |
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