David wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:11:56 GMT, HFguy wrote:


Monroe wrote:

Looking to upgrade from a Panasonic RF-3100. Just got off of an
"exiciting" ebay excursion for an older Kenwood R-5000 and have been
considering a R-75 w/ DSP from Universal. Something that has always
been gnawing at me was the use of an HF transceiver for shortwaver
reception. There is routinely a large inventory of used HF receivers
available about my area; mostly HF nets/clubs and the like. Actual
HF/shortwave/comm's receivers are hard to come by here.

Are any of these used receivers notable in performance/feature set for
shortwave reception?

thanks
--

Monroe

AFAIK, There are no HF transceivers with a sync' detector. I would
consider this to be a serious shortcoming for AM program listening.

I used to have an RF-3100. I was a fun receiver. It uses a
'semi-synthesizer' design similar to the FRG-7, DX-300/302 and XCR-30.
The latter was the first consumer receiver to use this design.


The SSB mode works fine for AM voice listening. Who listens to music
on shortwave any more?

SSB (ECSS) is not the same as a good selectable sideband sync' detector
for AM program listening. You get the benefit of low distortion and
adjacent channel rejection without having to use a narrow IF filter.

I listen to music on Radio Australia and New Zealand frequently. It's
one of the reasons I particularly like those two stations.