I have added another receiver to my collection in the form of the Drake SPR4. It was given to me by a fellow DXer that never used it anymore. It has basically been sitting since around 1980 when he quit using it much. In the meantime, the output cap between the speaker and the output transistor opened up, so no audio. I thought the output tansistor had died and I did not have any. So instead of fiddling with it, I took it to a tech in Portland who repaired it for $75, so not bad. I just picked it up today.
Not a bad little receiver. It works pretty well with the EWE and beverage. The skirts in AM are a bit wide so I will be getting a few mods done to getthe SSB filter (2.4 khz) to work in AM. Plus since I live near an electric fence, I really need a noise blanker as the R8 and the R1000 has. In 1971 when the SPR4 was purchased the noise blanker was an option. Hopefully I can find one out there in time. Even if not working, the tech in Portland said he could probably repair one. The SPR4 has much better signal handling than the Kenwood R1000. But of course the R8 is the best. But the SPR4 will make a great back up after I get everyting done. Patrick Martin Seaside OR KAVT Reception Manager ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
