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

OK,so what do y'all think of the Lowe receivers? I have an Irish married
lady friend who lives in Bognor Regis,England (about sixty something
miles South of London) Which Lowe recivers are good value for the money
(pricewise?,I am not a rich man) pertaining to shortwave and AM DXing? I
can ask her to keep an eye peeled for me but I would appreciate
information about which Lowe receivers are the best.Thanks in advance
for any information.
cuhulin

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

next week I will be getting back an HF-150 that I lent to a friend ( I am
always lending receivers to friends !)
on my web site is a description of the system I put together, a real killer
!!!!


http://home.comcast.net/~maghakian




"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

I meant to mention that this system is for sale for $425




"mike maghakian" wrote in message
...
next week I will be getting back an HF-150 that I lent to a friend ( I am
always lending receivers to friends !)
on my web site is a description of the system I put together, a real
killer
!!!!


http://home.comcast.net/~maghakian




"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

"mike maghakian" wrote in message
...
I meant to mention that this system is for sale for $425




"mike maghakian" wrote in message
...
next week I will be getting back an HF-150 that I lent to a friend ( I
am
always lending receivers to friends !)
on my web site is a description of the system I put together, a real
killer
!!!!


http://home.comcast.net/~maghakian


Great site Captain- I had just recently found it also.

I have owned the 250 and several 150's (here's a pix of my keeper 150 to
which I added backlighting: http://www.parelectronics.com/pics/hf150bl.jpg)
and have found them to be the best built receivers out there. My 150 goes on
every trip with me. If there's better sync detection out there I have not
found it.
Filter choices are excellent and very fine synthesizer- the 150 better than
the 250 in that regard. Thorpe was truely a genius. His AOR7000 also a fine
and well built receiver- but missing the mark as for simplicity. I truely
hope AOR does release a new Thorpe design- I'll be standing in line.

73,

--
Dale W4OP
for PAR Electronics, Inc.