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Geez, this is depressing. I saw this comming but I guess I was in
denial to an extent. I bought a new one from Universal last year and I love it. It's a fantastic radio. I've got a JRC NRD-545, but it mostly collects dust while my R8B gets most of the use in my shack. |
I am sorry to hear of the demise of the R8B. I have an Icom R-75, love
it, and wouldn't part with it. But I still think the Drake was the best receiver I ever had a chance to use, though briefly. A wonderful machine. Somewhere down the road, some company, likely an extant one, but perhaps a "new face", will come out with a receiver that will quickly become the new benchmark in the field. It will be interesting to see what this future receiver will be like. I honestly think that's inevitable. Though the market for high-end receivers is getting smaller, it is not going to disappear anytime soon. I also think - in fact I'm willing to bet on it - that when that receiver appears in the marketplace, if people thought the R8B was expensive . . . Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
dxAce wrote: Fresh from the Universal site: http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0082.html Scroll down and read the sorry news. This is a sad day indeed. dxAce Michigan USA Indeed it is Steve. Having owned the R8 and R8B (I passed on the R8A) and having owned an SPR-4, 2B, R4, R4A, R4B, R4C and R7 over the years, I can say without a doubt, R. L. Drake was a leader in manufacturing excellent receivers. I do think however, the R8B was the best of the line with reservations. That tuning knob and the lousy mechanical encoder turned me off. Of course, that didn't preclude me from many pleasurable hours sitting in front of that otherwise fine receiver. Having said that, it is a sad day for shortwave enthusiasts when you think that the Japanese manufacturers haven't ever produced one that didn't need agc, filter, synchronous detector and audio modifications to make it perform. I realize that we all had to modify our beloved hollow state receivers over the years, but the Japanese have led the free world in crappy audio, filters and agc's for decades. Shortwave receivers are but a minute drop in the bucket of electronics. If and when a manufacturer can sell shortwave receivers in the numbers such as dvd players, tv's etc., we will see this sort of thing happen. Just my 2 cents. Les Locklear Monitoring since ' 57 Monitoring from the Gulf of Mexico Hammarlund R-274C/FRR (SP-600JX-14) R-1051B/URR Ten Tec RX-340 Alpha Delta Sloper Quantum QX Loop Various Longwires CU-2279/BRC Multicoupler http://www.hammarlund.info/homepage.html |
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My guess is they'll be gone by the end of the day! Wonder who got the highest or most recent serial number? That one will be a collectors item. I suppose Drake kept a few too. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
I wish MFJ Enterprises www.MFJEnterprises.com would start building
shortwave radios and other kinds of radios too.I would certainly buy one or two,if I could afford it.I can't speak for the performance of their products because I don't own any of their products,,, yet.I am going to MFJ Enterprises in a couple of months (they are just up the road from me,so to speak) and buy one of their antennas.I think their products do look great though. cuhulin |
Tony Meloche wrote:
I am sorry to hear of the demise of the R8B. I have an Icom R-75, love it, and wouldn't part with it. But I still think the Drake was the best receiver I ever had a chance to use, though briefly. A wonderful machine. Somewhere down the road, some company, likely an extant one, but perhaps a "new face", will come out with a receiver that will quickly become the new benchmark in the field. It will be interesting to see what this future receiver will be like. I honestly think that's inevitable. Though the market for high-end receivers is getting smaller, it is not going to disappear anytime soon. I also think - in fact I'm willing to bet on it - that when that receiver appears in the marketplace, if people thought the R8B was expensive . . . Degen is already talking about a high end receiver, much more high end than their usual $50 portables. It will probably be marketed to the West, since it will likely cost much more than anybody in Degen's traditional market (domestic China) will be able to pay. That indicates to me that Degen must have pretty strong sales of its portables like the 1102 and 1103 in the West. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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dxAce wrote: Fresh from the Universal site: http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0082.html Scroll down and read the sorry news. This is a sad day indeed. I was having a good day until I read this. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
Tony Meloche wrote: I am sorry to hear of the demise of the R8B. I have an Icom R-75, love it, and wouldn't part with it. But I still think the Drake was the best receiver I ever had a chance to use, though briefly. A wonderful machine. Somewhere down the road, some company, likely an extant one, but perhaps a "new face", will come out with a receiver that will quickly become the new benchmark in the field. It will be interesting to see what this future receiver will be like. I honestly think that's inevitable. Though the market for high-end receivers is getting smaller, it is not going to disappear anytime soon. I also think - in fact I'm willing to bet on it - that when that receiver appears in the marketplace, if people thought the R8B was expensive . . . Tony I agree. Hmmm...I wonder what John Thorpe is doing these days... Steve |
wrote in message ... I wish MFJ Enterprises www.MFJEnterprises.com would start building shortwave radios and other kinds of radios too.I would certainly buy one or two,if I could afford it.I can't speak for the performance of their products because I don't own any of their products,,, yet.I am going to MFJ Enterprises in a couple of months (they are just up the road from me,so to speak) and buy one of their antennas.I think their products do look great though. cuhulin There is a reason they are known as Mighty Fine Junk. |
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