"dxAce" wrote in message
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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.

Damn. And I wasn't ready yet to buy one.

--Mike L.

"dxAce" wrote in message
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dxAce wrote:

wrote:

My guess is they'll be gone by the end of the day!

Update from the website:

"Universal Radio has one left as of 03/14/05 12:30 P.M. "

Now added "Please call to confirm availability".

Probably gone by the end of the day.

Watch Radio Mart snap them up.

--Mike L.

Michael Lawson wrote:

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
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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.

Damn. And I wasn't ready yet to buy one.

I've got this bad feeling that the prices on used R8/R8A/R8B
are about to go up a bit, for a while at least.

I guess at this point you might wish to call AES and/or HRO to inquire if they
still have any in stock.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
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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.

Damn. And I wasn't ready yet to buy one.

I've got this bad feeling that the prices on used R8/R8A/R8B
are about to go up a bit, for a while at least.

--Mike L.

A very fine receiver indeed.
Drake going out of serious SW radio manufacture is very sad.
There is a long line of very fine Drake receivers going back decades.
The Drake R7A remains an awesome performer even to this day.
My review of the Drake R8A/B in Werner Funkenhausers WHAMLOG confirms
they
are venerable radio's.


--
John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods
RX Drake R8B, SW8 & ERGO software
Sony 7600D GE SRIII
BW XCR 30, Braun T1000, Sangean 818 & 803A.
Hallicrafters SX-100, Eddystone 940
GE circa 50's radiogram
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop
http://www.dxing.info/about/dx=ADers/plimmer.dx

All I can say is, I'm glad the R8B was still around last year, when I
gave myself permission to buy a nice tabletop set. It surpassed all my
expectations, and then some.

Steve

AES' website www.aesham.com lists it still. No mention of being
discontinued (though obviously that means nothing).

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Michael Lawson wrote:

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
...
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.

Damn. And I wasn't ready yet to buy one.

I've got this bad feeling that the prices on used R8/R8A/R8B
are about to go up a bit, for a while at least.

I guess at this point you might wish to call AES and/or HRO to
inquire if they
still have any in stock.

I think I'd rather not torture myself right now about it. I can
scrounge up some dollars for the Hamvention, but it's far
short of the going rate for a new R8B. The vast majority of
my spare buckage is heading toward replacing our garage
doors. Kinda like that Harley commercial:

garage doors -- R8B
R8B -- garage doors

--Mike L.

Invader3K wrote:

AES' website www.aesham.com lists it still. No mention of being
discontinued (though obviously that means nothing).

I just called Milwaukee AES and they had one left. The fellow there did not know
how many were left at the other AES stores, but he figured there were only a
few.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote in message
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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


HA HA HA

Such a great receiver that no one is buying them! I love it. Soon we won't
hear dxace the "kids voice" hawk his old equipment anymore. This is too
cool.
Happy day for me....

Lucky

Grove.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:36:13 -0500, dxAce
wrote:



Michael Lawson wrote:

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
...
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.

Damn. And I wasn't ready yet to buy one.

I've got this bad feeling that the prices on used R8/R8A/R8B
are about to go up a bit, for a while at least.

I guess at this point you might wish to call AES and/or HRO to inquire if they
still have any in stock.

dxAce
Michigan
USA