David Eduardo wrote:
"patgkz" wrote in message
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All this talk about such a sad day, the R-8B now discontinued. I
say:
good riddance!

The death of the R-8B was a slow and painful one. The price crept
up to
$1500 and it lagged behind the DSP technology of the last five to
ten
years. It's platform was based on the R-8 designed around 1990.

Probably the best AM DX receiver even today is the R-390 made by
Collins or
Hammarlund. Hollow state, an alignment nightmare, but the best
receiver I
have ever used. DSP is just another way of doing things, and not, in
every
case, the best.

R-390's were manufactured by Collins and Motorola.............PERIOD!

R-390A's were manufactured by Collins, Motorola, Capehart Corp.,
Stewart Warner Corp., Amelco, Inc., Teledyne Systems,
Teledyne/Imperial, Fowler Industries, Dittmore-Freimuth (built by EAC),
EAC (Electronics Assistance Corp.)which was a division of Hammarlund in
it's later years. But, Hammarlund "NEVER" built R-390's.

Just wanted to set the record straight.

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
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