On 26 Apr 2005 09:28:51 -0700, "Too_Many_Tools"
wrote:

I would think there is....

One is still selling...the other is discontinued.

One made money for the company...the other did not.

One is the sign of the future...the other is the echo of the past.

There is likely to be a Grundig 900...there is no chance there will be
a R9.

Did the Grundig 800 kill off the Drake R8?

Maybe or maybe not...but the buying patterns of SWLers definitely did.

TMT

The era of the HF program listener is rapidly waning. Any demand for
the Drake synchronous detector is easily satisfied by the
Eton/Grundigs. This, in my case, is almost 100% MWDX program
listening after dark. As far as UTE monitoring goes, the sync detector
is useless.

For me, the R-75 works just as well for listening to airplanes, and it
costs about a third of what an R8B costs.