Drifter wrote:

i'm learning here every day. have the sat800; i will
use for the major broadcasters. got 4 sets of head phones,
mostly older types. i want the Drake speaker; looks so
cool as a set. i want the R8B to chase DX. so, the head-
phones will get a workout. maybe try some new/ even cordless
and hear what i like best. i get a real kick when Ace and
the group report the rare finds. got a high freq. hearing loss,
so, phones it is. now i'm really looking forward to my retir-
ment. all the years i carried a portable to catch a-bit here
and there will be over. thanks to you all, i now have 2 good
longwires(e-w/n-s). a great radio on the way. now i just
count down the days. thanks guys...
Drifter...

I'd pass on that MS8 speaker if I were you. Yes, it does look nice as a
set, much like the MS7 speaker looks nice as a set with the R7. Forget
it... either get a MS-4 or find something else.

Neither one is worthy of the set(s).

Been there, done that... do have a Drake t-shirt!

dxAce

got one last hamfest in WPA 9/12 at Butler. see what
i can find there. at the spring fest there was a guy
with a complete R7 station. by the time i got through
the gang around his table, another guy was packing it
up. looked like a ten out of ten. i collect T-shirts.
love to have a Drake shirt...
Drifter...

Drifter wrote:

got one last hamfest in WPA 9/12 at Butler. see what
i can find there. at the spring fest there was a guy
with a complete R7 station. by the time i got through
the gang around his table, another guy was packing it
up. looked like a ten out of ten. i collect T-shirts.
love to have a Drake shirt...

Contact BFrost AT rldrake.com about the t-shirt.

I was talking to him the other day, they are stilll available.

I may just order a few more myself.

dxAce

thank you much...
Drifter...

Drifter wrote:

thank you much...
Drifter...

You're quite welcome. Good luck in your DX'ing hobby.

73,

dxAce

Telamon wrote:
That is because the internal speaker is only OK. The radio will sound
better with an outboard speaker or headphones.

Not aimed at you, just a general rant:

Audio is nice, but why is it that the same people who complain about
less-than-audiophile-quality audio in shortwave receivers seem to
coincide with the people who complain about big receivers? It seems
like people are expecting a one-ounce, three-inch, fifty-watt speaker
with perfectly flat response from 10 to 100,000 Hz, and a fifty-watt
amplifier that nurses two AAA batteries for thirty weeks.

Really, how many radios do NOT give reasonably good audio through
headphones, or through an external amplifier/speaker, *especially*
those with synchronous detection?

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