First let me say that I'm a Heathkit fan and run a DX-100. Due to wanting to primarily use Heathkit products I paired the RX-1 Mohawk as my receiver of choice for AM. Many will tell you it has technical deficiencies but it matches my DX-100 with respect to band coverage. They both cover 160-10 meters where as the physically matching transmitter for the RX-1 is the TX-1 but the TX-1 does not cover 160, which is strange. The biggest fault of the RX-1 is it's drift but on AM which it is a lot less bothersome than on SSB. For about 2 hours the radio drifts frequency quite a bit. With AM you can drift a fair amount and still read the signal but with SSB your hand is always on the dial trying to keep Donald Duck out of your radio. There is a process detailed in a series of articles in ER Magazine on how to minimize the drift but it's too much of a bother for me. I guess it's like driving a Studebaker...you do it because you want to.
73, Tom K3TVC > > From: Kim Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/09/18 Tue PM 09:27:00 EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AMRadio] Receivers > > Much of the traffic here concerns transmitters. References to > receivers seem relatively sparse in comparison. With that subjective > impression as an opening, what sort of receivers are in use in the AM > community? > > Kim Elmore, N5OP > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
