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"AbbN" wrote:

Hi,

"Jim" wrote in message
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On 17 Mar 2005 19:20:59 -0800, wrote:


WTF are you babbling about? Who ever claimed that the S800 was the
"best receiver" and "has no weaknesses"?

I simply performed his "good test". The S800 won. Note - AGAIN -
that I have an original R8 with the double sideband only sync. The
R8B would have performed better, because it's sync is identical to the
S800's - both were designed by Drake you know!

The R8 is simply outdated, having been designed nearly 15 years ago.
The S800 benefits from being designed about 5 years ago. That's all.
No big deal - technology marches on and all that.

The S800 is just the best receiver *I* own. I have loads of radios
here, the S800 is just best that I personally have. I never claimed
it was the "best in the world". I stand by my statement that I would
take an S800 over an R8 - NOT an R8B! OK?

And....

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Well, I say the S800 is far better than the R8B. It's better than any
receiver and therefore immune to all criticism.

I own a Sat-800, Grundig 400PE and DX-398 and my best friend has my DX-394B
(he's "borrowing" it and loves it) and another friend now owns my Grundig
100PE. The Sat-800 here in Canada goes for $600 CDN (I got mine on sale for
$550 over 3 years ago) and the R8B goes for about $2200 (about 3.7x - 4x
more than the Sat-800, depending on how you calculate it).

I certainly believe the R8B to be better than my Sat-800, but not 3.7 to 4
times better.....

You are right. It's 10X better.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

The thing I like about the S800 is that, if you really know how to use
it, you can receive signals before they're even broadcast.

wrote:

The thing I like about the S800 is that, if you really know how to use
it, you can receive signals before they're even broadcast.

I'm hoping to hear Mozambique before they come on again.

That's one country I really screwed up on.

dxAce
Michigan
USA