"Gerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The one Drake receiver I always come back to is the R-4B and I consider it the ultimate vintage receiver in almost all respects. With a good set of crystals you could cover up to 10 SWL bands in style. I agree with Gary on all his points on the 2-B versus R-4 receivers. Additionally, the 2-B maximum bandwidth is only 3.6kHz, much too narrow for good AM reception. Now I know there's some people out there who say they can't tell the difference between their favorite vintage rig and the latest bells and whistles transceiver with DSP and cascaded filtering. I think they need to have their hearing checked because there most certainly IS a difference when signals are marginally copiable. There is not much difference when signals are readable. In which case it doesn't really matter which rig you use. However that's not the point because in the end we choose to use vintage rigs because they are fun and straightforward, not because they are better. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: www.zerobeat.net - sponsored by www.tlchost.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
