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Never used a Superradio, have you?
"Michael Black" wrote in message ... I think the suggestion about the Superradio is due to many not having experience with anything better, and there's then an almost knee-jerk reaction everytime someone asks "what's a good AM/FM broadcast radio". The Superradio is a fairly traditional single conversion receiver with a 455KHz IF for AM. I gather they don't even use a ceramic filter in the AM IF. It can't be all that great. The big thing is that it has a decent speaker for a portable, and a longer loopstick which may or may not help reception. It's analog tuned. The YB400 is double conversion, has digital tuning, and the circuitry intended for good shortwave reception is used in the AM broadcast band. It has two IF bandwidths, and it's pretty likely that the ceramic filters used will provide better skirt selectivity for AM broadcast band reception. In other words, if you have the better receiver the Superradio likely won't add anything. And if you have nothing, the reason the Superradio gets mentioned is because it's not as expensive as something better, and many stop at the SUperradio. I am tempted by the YB400 this week, immediately for the AM broadcast band coverage. I could make use of the better selectivity. I use a Delco digitally tuned car radio as my bedside radio, and it is a pretty decent radio. If it used a 455KHz IF instead of a 450KHz IF, I'd pull a ceramic filter from a CB set to get better selectivity, so I could once again receive WBZ (I lost being able to receive it some years back when a local 1040KHz station started up; the selectivity on the Delco is good, but not good enough for this case). Michael |
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