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R75 & R8B
Wife is fine Greg and doesn't complain when I buy a radio now and then.
I'll probably keep her for another 25 years. Michael, R75 runs internal speaker for now. When using phones there seems to be a little distortion that I don't hear on the Drake. I'm using a pair of Rad Shack $19.95 phones with the impedance unknown. Maybe I will save up and get a better pair of phones. Maybe Tony will advise me on a pair. The phones may actually be better matched to the Drake which may be part of the distortion prob on the Icom???? Can't readily find the output impedance spec on either. Icom says 10% distortion at 2watts which means little. And yes, the external speaker is just about useless. I'm not sure what I'm going to do there. Most of the 75m AM guys I hang with tap off their boatanchor detectors and run directly into a nice hifi audio system. That's probably what I'll do someday with the Drake and Icom. We also run real wide signals, but don't tell anyone. Jim, To tell the truth I am sure that others are better qualified to answer any questions relating to performance. I am new to SWL and until I bought the Drake in the spring I was strictly a boatanchor operator. As far as filters go I am running stock ones for now, and not too sure how they are called up in the menus. It appears the 9mc if has either a 2.4kc or a 15kc filter selectable. Seems the 455kc If has same filter options. Again, others would be more qualified to comment. SSB and AM has been fine with the filters supplied. I am looking forward to some CW work over the winter at 5wpm :-) Maybe more filters then. I bought from HRO up in New Hampshire. I took David's advice and haggled with them and paid about $570. I just pointed out that Universal radio had them for $570. Guy went and checked and said no prob - $570. I buy from HRO cause a nice bunch over there. Also I just give em my callsign and they got my whole history. Also they are so close that UPS ground gets here overnight anyway. For what it's worth I think the R75 is a fine unit. I will agree with others that it has some operating modes that just might give it the edge over the R8B with messy DX work. The R8B with VHF and speaker list price was very high. I think the R75 may be a good value for the money. One went on Ebay for $405 yesterday. I asked guy history and he told me he bought used over 2 years ago. So resale is still very high and he made out ok. 73 Bob |
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R75 & R8B
From: Organization: http://groups.google.com Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Date: 30 Sep 2005 16:56:48 -0700 Subject: R75 & R8B Wife is fine Greg and doesn't complain when I buy a radio now and then. I'll probably keep her for another 25 years. :) Greg |
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