Excellent link, Captain. Thanks for posting it.

John Thorpe is a receiver design guru, and when he partnered with John
Wilson for the business & marketing side of things, they had a great
combination going for a few years. The Lowe "HF" series is the result.

I owned a HF-225 Europa model in the past and found it to be a fine DXing
*and* program listening receiver. Although I missed features like passband
tuning and notch filter for DXing, there was an appealing simplicity to the
set.

I fondly remember operating the HF-225 Europa from the Washington State
coast one mild winter morning, with the radio and gel-cell battery in my
backpack and 250 feet of wire strung across the dune grass. I sat on one of
the highest, grassy dunes around sunrise, watching the waves catch the
golden glint of the rising sun. On this particular AM, tropical band
Africans were booming in via longpath, particularly Channel Africa from
South Africa with a nearly local-quality signal.. I recorded the catch on a
Marantz PMD-221 recorder, and today this recording still remains my
best-ever signal of a tropical band African heard on the West coast of the
USA. The audio quality provided by the HF-225 Europa and my Sennheiser
headphones was incredible.

AOR has promised the "JT-2000" black box receiver from John Thorpe for
almost five years now, but nothing has transpired. If it ever sees the light
of day it will be targeted at the commercial/military market, with a price
to match.

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA USA


"the captain" wrote in message
om...
most people don't fully understand or appreciate the Lowe recceiver
line, here is an article I found that makes good reading on them.


http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/pi...ent/lowe1.html