wrote:

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.

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I am sorry to see that Drake is discontinuing those Great Radios.I wish
I had the money to buy one.I can wish,can't I? Maybe someday a Drake
radio will turn up in the Goodwill thrift store I check out two or three
times every week.Even if it needs repair,I would send it somewhere for
repair.
cuhulin

Sad to see yet another maker of high end receivers pull out of the
market. Especially one with so many historic ties to the SWL hobbyist.
It is as the old Petula Clark song goes: A Sign of the Times.


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

In article . com,
says...
Sad to see yet another maker of high end receivers pull out of the
market. Especially one with so many historic ties to the SWL hobbyist.
It is as the old Petula Clark song goes: A Sign of the Times.


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




You have to remember, there was about a ten year gap from when the R7A
was discontinued, until when the R8 came out, so an R9 may show up
someday...

BDK

"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.

--Mike L.

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
...

"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.

--Mike L.

Michael Lawson wrote:

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
...

"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

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Michael Lawson wrote:

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
...

"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.

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

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