mike maghakian wrote:
the Ten-Tec RX-340 is one of the best all around receivers available
at a
price of $4000

if you only do SWL listening, the Sat800 is the BEST FOR THE MONEY

if you do a lot of utility listening, then the 800 is a bad choice
since it
has only a 2.3 as its narrowest filter,

anyone who gives advice without asking what you will do with it and
what
antenna you can put up and what your budget is can NOT give you good
advice.





"Daniel J. Morlan" wrote in
message
. com...
I have a Grundig Satellit 800 coming my way, and some of my fellow
ham
radio friends are trying to convince me that I've made some kind of
mistake.

The AOR 7030 is darnedably expensive, but I did have a question as
to
performance characteristics and enhancements. Is there a shortwave
radio
superior to the AOR 7030? Just for curiositie's sake, is there
such a
radio that IS more superior, if money were no object? Or is there
one
superior in quality that is actually less expensive?

Is there perhaps a website that has a fairly independent review of
these
radios, and makes comparisons?

Any help greatly appreciated.

(I do know of radio netherlands, and universal radio.)

73, WW6DJM

Daniel


Having owned most of the premium receivers, I can say that there isn't
a lot of difference once you spend a few thousand.

The R8B has the most mellow audio and best synchronous detector imho.
The R-75 isn't bad, better with the Kiwa mods. The 525, 535 and 545 JRC
receivers are ok too. I have sold off just about all of my tube stuff
and have been using a RX-340 for the last 1-1/2 months. Great receiver!
I think I'll keep it and forget about the search for the "Holy Grail"
of receivers.

Les Locklear
Monitoring since ' 57
Monitoring from the Gulf of Mexico
Bendix R-1015B/URR
Hammarlund R-274C/FRR (SP-600JX-14)
Ten Tec RX-340
Alpha Delta Sloper
Quantum QX Loop
Various Longwires
CU-2279/BRC Multicoupler
http://www.hammarlund.info/homepage.html