Too late my friend.

regards,
Bob
N9NEO

First of all thank you to all that have read and or responded to my
post. Good reviews of radio caused me to buy one.

R75 was delivered today. (UPS man ran into my wife and told her I
bought a new radio. I'm glad I told her I got new radio before she
mentioned it:-) I like it's size compared to the Drake R8B. I expect
the future will even see smaller units with superior performance - I
hope. Readout is easier on these old eyes than the Drake as well.
Panel layout is nice. Performance is very good and many options to
tame noise and lots of buttons to play with and tweak. The audio
doesn't seem to be as clean as the Drake. There is for sure some
distortion going on that I'll have to check out.

I've been playing with a 5btv verticle and a 160m dipole for the
antennas. I've got at least a half dozen antennas on the property, so
I gotta get a couple of coax switches going on.

I may have more to say later. I am newbie to high performance radio
and to tell the truth mostly run Hammarlund SP600 and Racal RA17L type
boatanchors. I recently had to sell the SP600 to buy the Drake. The
Racal is actaully a smokin good unit with an amazing front end. So if
you have some advice or tests I should try on makng comparisons to
Drake then I am all ears.

bye,
Bob

wrote:

R75 was delivered today. (UPS man ran into my wife and told her I
bought a new radio. I'm glad I told her I got new radio before she
mentioned it:-) I like it's size compared to the Drake R8B. I expect
the future will even see smaller units with superior performance - I
hope. Readout is easier on these old eyes than the Drake as well.
Panel layout is nice. Performance is very good and many options to
tame noise and lots of buttons to play with and tweak. The audio
doesn't seem to be as clean as the Drake.

The built-in speaker on the R75 is the size of a teabag. Virtually
*any* extension speaker dramatically improves the sound. And it's great
through headphones, of course (I do almost all my listening with
headphones).

Tony

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First of all thank you to all that have read and or responded to my
post. Good reviews of radio caused me to buy one.

R75 was delivered today. (UPS man ran into my wife and told her I
bought a new radio. I'm glad I told her I got new radio before she
mentioned it:-) I like it's size compared to the Drake R8B. I
expect
the future will even see smaller units with superior performance - I
hope. Readout is easier on these old eyes than the Drake as well.
Panel layout is nice. Performance is very good and many options to
tame noise and lots of buttons to play with and tweak. The audio
doesn't seem to be as clean as the Drake. There is for sure some
distortion going on that I'll have to check out.

Are you using the onboard speaker versus an external
one? In almost all cases, an external speaker works
much better, and you can also play with a better a/b
comparison by moving the speaker's terminals between
two radios.

I've been playing with a 5btv verticle and a 160m dipole for the
antennas. I've got at least a half dozen antennas on the property,
so
I gotta get a couple of coax switches going on.

I may have more to say later. I am newbie to high performance radio
and to tell the truth mostly run Hammarlund SP600 and Racal RA17L
type
boatanchors. I recently had to sell the SP600 to buy the Drake.
The
Racal is actaully a smokin good unit with an amazing front end. So
if
you have some advice or tests I should try on makng comparisons to
Drake then I am all ears.

::drool:: SP600..... I like radios that help keep me
warm in the basement in the winter.

--Mike L.

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Date: 29 Sep 2005 20:28:43 -0700
Subject: R75 & R8B

First of all thank you to all that have read and or responded to my
post. Good reviews of radio caused me to buy one.

R75 was delivered today. (UPS man ran into my wife ...

I hope she's okay!

Greg

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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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