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What is a good shortwave radio?

For what application? Base? Mobile? Portable?

What band coverage do you want?

How much do you want to spend?

What feature set are you looking for?

Asking the question that you did, by itself, is like asking "What
kind of car should I buy?"


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For overall value its still hard to beat a Sony 2010. If portability isnt a
big deal then the Ten Tec RX 320 DSP black box rcvr is a good value. Both are
available used on eBay pretty often. Although many disagree, I like the ICOM R
10 handlheld. With a good antenna it gets decent HF SSB and has a voice
squelch that quiets the rcvr between SSB transmissions (not to be confused with
a a carrier squelch). It also rcvs VHF and UHF. I got mine used for $200.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:20:37 -0600, BOEING377 wrote
(in message ):

For overall value its still hard to beat a Sony 2010. If portability isnt a
big deal then the Ten Tec RX 320 DSP black box rcvr is a good value.


The RX-320 is quite portable. Aside from being able to be controlled with a
laptop which many people carry for other reasons, the RX-320 can also be
controlled with a PDA.





Both are
available used on eBay pretty often. Although many disagree, I like the ICOM
R
10 handlheld. With a good antenna it gets decent HF SSB and has a voice
squelch that quiets the rcvr between SSB transmissions (not to be confused
with
a a carrier squelch). It also rcvs VHF and UHF. I got mine used for $200.




Gray Shockley
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DX-392 DX-398
RX-320 DX-399
CCradio w/RS Loop
Torus Tuner (3-13 MHz)
Select-A-Tenna
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Vicksburg, MS US

The RX-320 is quite portable. Aside from being able to be controlled
with a laptop which many people carry for other reasons, the RX-320 can
also be controlled with a PDA.

And it's great for ssb. RM~

I'd leave the 2010 off the list if sideband is a major consideration. 100
htz tuning is way to course. I would'nt want to listen to that long.
"BOEING377" wrote in message
...
For overall value its still hard to beat a Sony 2010. If portability isnt
a
big deal then the Ten Tec RX 320 DSP black box rcvr is a good value. Both
are
available used on eBay pretty often. Although many disagree, I like the
ICOM R
10 handlheld. With a good antenna it gets decent HF SSB and has a voice
squelch that quiets the rcvr between SSB transmissions (not to be confused
with
a a carrier squelch). It also rcvs VHF and UHF. I got mine used for $200.

What
kind of car should I buy?

I recomend a German-made car, because of engineering excellence:
Mercedes, Audio, VW, etc

How about a car with a German name, owned by an American company, built in
China?



"Radioman390" wrote in message
...
What
kind of car should I buy?

I recomend a German-made car, because of engineering excellence:
Mercedes, Audio, VW, etc

"Jim Hackett" wrote in message
ink.net...
How about a car with a German name, owned by an American company, built in
China?

Beats a car with a Spanish name, owned by a Korean company, built of Chinese
parts.. ROFL..

In article . net, "Jim
Hackett" writes:



How about a car with a German name, owned by an American company, built in
China?

- With a fancy heads-up display
progremmed in India. Assembled in Mexico