I find couple of Radio Shack DX 394 on e-bay , is it woth bidding
considering the technology . If yes how much should I bid ? Any
feedback is appreciated .

Kam

kamalakar pasupuleti wrote:

I find couple of Radio Shack DX 394 on e-bay , is it woth bidding
considering the technology . If yes how much should I bid ? Any
feedback is appreciated .

Kam

I checked out one a friend owned.

Here's a link with basic information about the radio. (Link says 302, but same page has 394)

http://www.dxing.com/rx/dx302.htm

They rate radios for "value" on a 1-5 star basis. The 394 gets 1 star.

Here's a link to the same site's table of contents with links to information about 100 or so of the more popular radios on the used market:

http://www.dxing.com/rx/rxindex.htm

Personally, if I was in the market for a budget priced table top I think I'd look at the Tentec RX-320. Better performance, and generally available for about $200-225 on the used market.

Hi,

Here's another review of it - a good one. I had one and I liked it but I got
a "B" model on the insistence of a ham friend of mine. My best friend now
has it and loves it. You'll get good and bad comments on it in this group
but I was never sorry I bought it. As to what you should pay for it, I
wouldn't go more than $100 - $125 for it. Also check to see if it has had
any modification to some. Some of these 394's an eBay have had the mods
done.

http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/dx394.html
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Good Luck
Abb N
VE3003SWL
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

"kamalakar pasupuleti" wrote in message
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I find couple of Radio Shack DX 394 on e-bay , is it woth bidding
considering the technology . If yes how much should I bid ? Any
feedback is appreciated .

Kam

as has been pointed out, the factory designed and supplied DX-394 is
full of problems. however there are some modifications that can fix
the 394. after that it is quite a full featured receiver if you pay no
more than $200. it is not worth $250 as I have seen some people pay.
at that point there are many other better values. but at $200 for a
modified one, that is a good value point.





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I find couple of Radio Shack DX 394 on e-bay , is it woth bidding
considering the technology . If yes how much should I bid ? Any
feedback is appreciated .

Kam

(kamalakar pasupuleti) wrote in message . com...
I find couple of Radio Shack DX 394 on e-bay , is it woth bidding
considering the technology . If yes how much should I bid ? Any
feedback is appreciated .

Kam

I have maintained a graph of Monthly average selling prices for
DX-394's since late October on the website of the DX-394 special
interest group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RADIOSHACKDX394/ .
Join 560 other members to see what you can learn about it. Links to
reviews, a cavalcade of mods, etc.

Tom

I got mine a few years ago and I must say that it is the best of all the RS
short-wave radios that I have owned. That isn't saying much. A squelch
circuit would have been nice as that the radio is very noisy. It has next to
no filtering and when you tune manually it pops at every point 1 of a KC. I
also find that it has a drift on SSB that it has had from the first day. It
is ok if all you want to listen to is VOA or other AM stations but no good
for the good stuff on short-wave. I use mine as a spare rig and my Yeasu as
a primary. I wouldn't pay more then $50.00 for one.

"kamalakar pasupuleti" wrote in message
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I find couple of Radio Shack DX 394 on e-bay , is it woth bidding
considering the technology . If yes how much should I bid ? Any
feedback is appreciated .

Kam

all these issues are covered by easy fixes, if you don't want to do them
, then the DX-394 is NOT the radio for you. My 394 is selective (mod),
quiet (inherently), has no pops(mod) and is a very nice radio.

I would pay a lot lot more than $50 for one and buy a dozen at a time if
I could.


It is unfortunate that people like you spread so much misleading
information. It is the reason the 394 is SO misunderstood.


Mike




WG wrote:
I got mine a few years ago and I must say that it is the best of all the RS
short-wave radios that I have owned. That isn't saying much. A squelch
circuit would have been nice as that the radio is very noisy. It has next to
no filtering and when you tune manually it pops at every point 1 of a KC. I
also find that it has a drift on SSB that it has had from the first day. It
is ok if all you want to listen to is VOA or other AM stations but no good
for the good stuff on short-wave. I use mine as a spare rig and my Yeasu as
a primary. I wouldn't pay more then $50.00 for one.

"kamalakar pasupuleti" wrote in message
om...

I find couple of Radio Shack DX 394 on e-bay , is it woth bidding
considering the technology . If yes how much should I bid ? Any
feedback is appreciated .

Kam

What is misleading about the truth. The rig is junk. You don't say what you
are comparing to. I have mine side by side with a Yeasu FT-100d and I must
say that even without the AM filter the Yeasu's receiver beats the 394's
hands down. You may want to look up some of the less then good reviews in
most of the radio publications. Radio Shack had to give them away at less
then 1/2 the list price in the last year of its run.

"Mike Maghakian" wrote in message
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all these issues are covered by easy fixes, if you don't want to do them
, then the DX-394 is NOT the radio for you. My 394 is selective (mod),
quiet (inherently), has no pops(mod) and is a very nice radio.

I would pay a lot lot more than $50 for one and buy a dozen at a time if
I could.


It is unfortunate that people like you spread so much misleading
information. It is the reason the 394 is SO misunderstood.


Mike




WG wrote:
I got mine a few years ago and I must say that it is the best of all the
RS
short-wave radios that I have owned. That isn't saying much. A squelch
circuit would have been nice as that the radio is very noisy. It has
next to
no filtering and when you tune manually it pops at every point 1 of a
KC. I
also find that it has a drift on SSB that it has had from the first day.
It
is ok if all you want to listen to is VOA or other AM stations but no
good
for the good stuff on short-wave. I use mine as a spare rig and my Yeasu
as
a primary. I wouldn't pay more then $50.00 for one.

"kamalakar pasupuleti" wrote in message
om...

I find couple of Radio Shack DX 394 on e-bay , is it woth bidding
considering the technology . If yes how much should I bid ? Any
feedback is appreciated .

Kam

people get their R-75 modified to make it work. why not the same
leeway with the 394. judge a fixed one, not a stock one.


"WG" wrote in message news:ubA1c.65940$A12.16971@edtnps84...
What is misleading about the truth. The rig is junk. You don't say what you
are comparing to. I have mine side by side with a Yeasu FT-100d and I must
say that even without the AM filter the Yeasu's receiver beats the 394's
hands down. You may want to look up some of the less then good reviews in
most of the radio publications. Radio Shack had to give them away at less
then 1/2 the list price in the last year of its run.

WG wrote:
What is misleading about the truth. The rig is junk. You
don't say what you are comparing to. I have mine side by
side with a Yeasu FT-100d and I must say that even
without the AM filter the Yeasu's receiver beats the
394's hands down. You may want to look up some of the
less then good reviews in most of the radio publications.
Radio Shack had to give them away at less then 1/2 the
list price in the last year of its run.

If it's "junk",
- why do you keep it?
- why do you use it?
- why don't you give it someone who appreciates it?
- why don't you sell it?
- why don't you throw it out?
- why don't you improve it? You'll be pleasantly surprised at the results.
- why don't you do something about it?

Comparisons: I have a Drake R-4B, great radio in its day, but the DX-394
beats it hands down when it comes to warmup time and drift, speed and
convenience of tuning, sensitivity above 15MHz and frequency range covered.
The R-4B wins on immunity to overload and selectivity - both front end and
IF - and it smells (that could be positive or negative) of warm dust and
resins.

Reviews: both the ARRL Lab and the Radio Netherlands rated it good value for
money, 4 stars from the latter, when it was still selling for $300, before
upgrades. The majority of personal reviews on eHam.net agree; a small
minority of extremists rate it the way you do.

Radio Shack consistently sells off old stock at half price or less. Seven
years after it was introduced, Radio Shack Canada cleared them out at what
was then around US$85. Nothing unusual in that. That's what got me going
again in this hobby. Why was there leftover stock? Perhaps they
overestimated the potential market for mid-range, tabletop communications
receivers. I daresay that more than 10,000 were manufactured - a large
number for this market - hence the RADIOSHACKDX394 SIG is one of the largest
receiver-specific communities, exceeded only by the DX-398 SIG.

Tom