m II wrote:

Eric F. Richards wrote:

Funny... if I look inside my '8500 I see a cast aluminum,
compartmentalized, shielded chassis.

Much as I like my Yaesu gear, their last great receiver was the
FRG-100.


I wanted one. They were probably way underrated. I'd like to find a
good comparison between it, FRG 7 and FRG 9600

I had a '-100 and a '-7. Both nice radios. The '100 suffered from
chugging and other synthesizer noise, but behaved well, otherwise. It
was underrated, and the need for a keypad was overstated -- it had a
number of aids to allow you to get to any arbitrary place on the
spectrum in a hurry without direct frequency entry.

The '7 was built like a tank. Just a different generation of design
and construction standards. A fun radio to operate, but in these days
of 1 Hz resolution probably not considered "practical." I would have
killed for one back in its day, though.

--
Eric F. Richards,
"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940