(GrtPmpkin32) wrote in message ...

I am, like DeWayne, the happy owner of an R75, AND I owned a Drake R8B for
three years. The R8B is an awesome receiver, and the problems you're blowing
all out of proportion are as DeWayne says, minor and infrequent (I never ONCE
had a problem with the encoder or tuning knob)...
synthesizer phase noise,background hiss,birdies,cheapy mechanical
encoder with high failure rate,NO DSP,no 1hz tunning steps
increments,K'mart keypad,poor grounding and shielding techniques,not
pro filters[with excellent shape factor skirts selectivity,notch
filter does not tune under 500hz,run very hot even turned off ect ect
If you want to call this "minor" and "infrequent" problems this is your privilege.
now, and don't really know what your point has been all along.

point:All receiver have flaws ALL RECEIVERS ,and
another point is: a moded receiver can surpass in hard core dxing a
most expensive receiver.
Yes, I tend to champion the R75 when
discussing it with fellow (or soon-to-be)
SWL's for its price range, performance, and overall flexibility for most users.

The Drake R8B also has its fair share of detractors, but
unlike your posts
here, they tend to state a few LOGICAL reasons why they don't wish to buy an
R8B, any one of which makes SENSE compared to your 'facts' given
My R8B flaws facts "no give sense" compared with other
logical reasons? I keep with my scientific side by side test facts an
leave the "logic reasoning" to the studious.
Like a few teen-minded
defenders of some dubious radio products
They have the the freedom to
defend their radios, what the problem with that.? you're being
ridiculous, and show it more
with every heated, self-defensive post about differing OPINIONS and
preferences.

I quoted passport,white papers,past post from this
group archives,experts articles,I did the side by side test and for me
your reaction is only a failed intent to sweep the facts under the
rug.
advice I have received and have given others:
Quit looking for black-and-white in radios. It will NEVER exist.
At last you got it;all radios have pro's and flaws."Get everything
right" commercial advertisement is only a nice myth.


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Kenneth wrote:

(GrtPmpkin32) wrote in message ...

I am, like DeWayne, the happy owner of an R75, AND I owned a Drake R8B for
three years. The R8B is an awesome receiver, and the problems you're blowing
all out of proportion are as DeWayne says, minor and infrequent (I never ONCE
had a problem with the encoder or tuning knob)...
synthesizer phase noise,background hiss,birdies,cheapy mechanical
encoder with high failure rate,NO DSP

You actually think the DSP in the R75 is worth anything?

,no 1hz tunning steps
increments,K'mart keypad,poor grounding and shielding techniques,not
pro filters[with excellent shape factor skirts selectivity,notch
filter does not tune under 500hz,run very hot

One again, another question you refuse to answer. Just what do you consider to be 'very hot'?

Can you answer even one question Kenneth?

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B
"I swear by, not at, Drake receivers"

You actually think the DSP in the R75 is worth anything?
Yes Steve,the DSP include an automatic notch filter an really helps in
improve intelligibility of some tough signals and reduce heterodyne
[whistle]interference.
Ken

Kenneth wrote:

You actually think the DSP in the R75 is worth anything?
Yes Steve,the DSP include an automatic notch filter an really helps in
improve intelligibility of some tough signals and reduce heterodyne
[whistle]interference.
Ken

Golly, an automatic notch filter! Who would've thought! ;)

That must free up one of your hands for... well... doing other things!

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B
"I swear by, not at, Drake receivers" ©

My R8B flaws facts "no give sense" compared with other
logical reasons? I keep with my scientific side by side test facts an
leave the "logic reasoning" to the studious.

That's obvious.

They have the the freedom to
defend their radios, what the problem with that.?

I never said there was a 'problem' with freedom to express opinions (and I find
it amazing, as usual, that I get the tired 'censorship' accusation from yet
another teen-minded champion of personal pride of ownership), but if you would
care to go back into the archives and read through a fraction of the myriad
threads over who's got the better product and who's an idiot for NOT buying
said product, you'd know that your position and churlish attitude is neither
new, nor constructive.

I did the side by side test and for me
your reaction is only a failed intent to sweep the facts under the
rug.

Here lies the core of the whole 'my rig's better than your rig' ****ing
contest.
You admitted already that you leave logic to others, and are not using logic in
your current strand of posts, so I'll make this easier for you.
There's a HUGE difference between your singular, personal experiences with a
given product and someone else's reviews of the same thing versus any actual
FACTS. What you are attempting to do (illogically, as you admit) is portray
your opinion, and a handful of other's opinions, as FACTS to prove your
position in some blown-up (and utterly needless) debate over your radio. The
books and periodicals you mention as scientific proof are still derived from
personal experiences, and while I often refer to the same books and articles
for input and advice, I do not consider anything told to me (beyond basics like
dimensions, weight, frequency range, etc.) as FACTS. MY personal experiences
(are you spotting the lesson here yet?) with many products have differed quite
dramatically than the opinions and 'facts' expressed in those articles quite
often.
You have a personal agenda to defend your radio, which seems silly to me.
There's a difference between having real facts, and simply displaying a
churlish, personal-pride-of-ownership temper tantrum. ANYONE can point to
articles both pro- and con- regarding ANY product you care to mention... and
NONE of those articles, pro- or con-, can change YOUR personal experience and
preferences.

At last you got it;all radios have pro's and flaws."Get everything
right" commercial advertisement is only a nice myth.

If you really believed what you're saying all through this, you would have
simply not replied to Telamon's personal opinion, since it was EXACTLY that:
His statement of flaws of the radio in question, which IN *HIS* OPINION, helped
him decide NOT to purchase the radio.
ANYTHING beyond that is pointless.
I like my R75, and I liked my R8B, and have had not a single problem with
either of them. You seem to have gotten a dud.
Linus

(GrtPmpkin32) wrote:

You have a personal agenda to defend your radio, which seems silly to me.
There's a difference between having real facts, and simply displaying a
churlish, personal-pride-of-ownership temper tantrum.

Hello... phil?


--
Eric F. Richards,
"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940

Hello... phil?

whats the matter Eric? you're usually a bowl of sunshine. overload any
radios lately?

73s,
phil

"phil " wrote:


Hello... phil?

whats the matter Eric? you're usually a bowl of sunshine. overload any
radios lately?


Heck, no, phil, all the radios I have now can handle strong signals in
their front-ends.

I see Bob Sherwood relatively frequently at hamfests and keep bugging
him to put the R-75 specs into his high-end receiver comparison table.
Eventually... (he just laughed when I tried to sell him my R-75!)


73s,
phil

--
Eric F. Richards,
"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940

Eric F. Richards wrote in message . ..
"phil " wrote:


Hello... phil?
.

I see Bob Sherwood relatively frequently at hamfests and keep bugging
him to put the R-75 specs into his high-end receiver comparison table.
Eventually... (he just laughed when I tried to sell him my R-75!)
Do you know that the Ten Tec RX340 and R-75 passport laboratory
measurements were conducted in your friend Bob Sherwood laboratory?
Here Bob RX-340 [$3,999]test findings:The sync selectable sideband
lose look relatively
easily,Passport recomend an external Sherwood SE-3 [500.00],poor
dynamic range,static crashes sound harsher than on analog
receivers.Spurious signal noted around 6MHZ segment,notch filter does
not work in AM,Sync selectable sideband or ISB modes,Noise blanker not
effective ect, ect, ect,
Maybe he recalled this RX-340 test when he laughed at you in
the hamfest.About his R-75 test:Oustanding rejection of spurious
signals,reception of faint signals alongside powerful competing ones ,
ultimate selectivity and good dynamic range.If you or anyone here keep
trying to put down the R-75 with subjetive statements I will react
with your own resources.

Kenneth wrote:

Eric F. Richards wrote in message . ..
"phil " wrote:


Hello... phil?
.

I see Bob Sherwood relatively frequently at hamfests and keep bugging
him to put the R-75 specs into his high-end receiver comparison table.
Eventually... (he just laughed when I tried to sell him my R-75!)
Do you know that the Ten Tec RX340 and R-75 passport laboratory
measurements were conducted in your friend Bob Sherwood laboratory?
Here Bob RX-340 [$3,999]test findings:The sync selectable sideband
lose look relatively
easily,Passport recomend an external Sherwood SE-3 [500.00],poor
dynamic range,static crashes sound harsher than on analog
receivers.Spurious signal noted around 6MHZ segment,notch filter does
not work in AM,Sync selectable sideband or ISB modes,Noise blanker not
effective ect, ect, ect,
Maybe he recalled this RX-340 test when he laughed at you in
the hamfest.About his R-75 test:Oustanding rejection of spurious
signals,reception of faint signals alongside powerful competing ones ,
ultimate selectivity and good dynamic range.If you or anyone here keep
trying to put down the R-75 with subjetive statements I will react
with your own resources.

I've really got to tell you what blows my mind! It's the fact that you and many others who claim to 'own' an
R75 keep writing it up as a 'R-75'. Do you ever get to use the radio and look at the front panel?

It's an R75, at least it says so on the front. Or, is the problem that you've always got it apart trying to
fix its shortcomings that you never actually get to look at the front of the radio?

Wondering...

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B
"I swear by, not at, Drake receivers" ©