Receiver Upgrade Query
 

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
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Monroe

A general coverage transceiver would certainly do the job and if you
have a license it could do double duty. My experience has been that
high end receivers that were designed just for HF reception have some
added features that might make the job of listening to signals a bit
easier though. That is my sense with the R-5000 at least.