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December 5th 05, 04:38 AM
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What would your dream SW portable receiver look like?
Greg wrote:
From: "D. Peter Maus" Organization: AT&T Worldnet Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:46:30 GMT Subject: What would your dream SW portable receiver look like? Greg wrote: From: "€ Dr. Artaud €" Organization: None Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 13:03:58 -0600 Subject: What would your dream SW portable receiver look like? wrote in news:1133683898.230776.237900 @g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: 1. Quality table top grade with portable features, i.e. carrying strap, feet on bottom and edge opposite to strap, 13.8 V Operation. 2. Sensitive tuner with SSB capabilities with the option to add noise processors, Digital (ugh!), and other likely future needs without sending the unit to the manufacturer to have them installed. 3. Hi and Low Z inputs for the antenna, ergo wire and coax connectors. 4. All knobs parallel to the face of the radio (i.e. no small knobs that partially go inside of the radio). 5. All Buttons on the face of the radio. 6. Variable illumination for the display. 7. Front panel speaker with sufficient clairty and drive to avoid distortion. 8. Jacks for recording (audio and control), computer interface, audio line level out, and disconnect for receiver when unit is being used in conjunction with a transmitter. With the reduction in the price of memory, perhaps an internal memory that can record 2 hours of talk shows. 9. Variable programming options so that the radio can tune to several shows on several frequencies at different times. Perhaps an audio assessment circuit that prohibits the recording of nothing but static and stops the tape. 10. Not made in China. $700 to $900 price range would be OK. Dr. Artaud Sounds more or less like a Drake SW-8, my dream portable. Greg In all applicable seriousness, rare in my house (or so the chihuahua tells me) I've had trouble deciding with radio to drag with me to the North Woods. If it's not my Sat 650 Professional, it's my SW-8. SW-8 isn't the most sensitive off it's whip, but with random wire, or portable active, it's great fun when it's just me and the dog at the cabin. When it's not just me and the dog, I generally don't notice if there's a radio or not. You've got a couple of serious portables there. In a couple weeks I'm taking my family for a short, pre-Christmas vacation on the beach (Anna Maria Island, Fla.). My main portable is the modest but venerable RS DX-440. The last time I took it to the beach I heard more DX than ever before on that radio, using a 24' wind-up wire antenna. Great fun. Greg Well, these are only two of the many. House full of T/O's, and Hallicrafters clones. A handful of Grundigs, A couple of Panasonics, and one lonely Sony ICF-5900. About the only portable I've not played with is the RS badged Sangean. Any of them. I had an ATS 803, but an old high school buddy was looking for a radio, so I gave it to him. I did take an RF-B65 to the Gulf Coast recently, and got to listen in a relativelly noise free environment. Yeah, there's nothing quite like a good listening environment and a good radio. |
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