Chuck, I may have misunderstood his comment, but he did say, the loss in sensitivity he felt was the PIN diodes. The S Meter readings have been dropping slowly over the past several months. I used to get KSWB 840 at S9+38 DB off the SW EWE. When I shipped the R8 off yesterday, it was giving me S9+22. There is a loss on all of my antennas across the board on the R8, yet the S Meter readings on the SPR4 are normal. I first thought maybe issues with the matching transformers, coax, etc, but I check that out and everything is normal. The really weak stuff I get in the day I have noticed the loss more. Then I checked the antennas on the SPR4 and found everything normal. There are some other issues with the R8. The switches are getting sticky and the passband tuning in the AM mode is no longer centered, so something has changed value. I fiqured the receiver has needed a tuneup for sometime. I also noticed that the realy weak TPs signals have been down too. Some of that are conditions, but the receiver just has not been a good as it was. But the tech at Drake did say he fiqured the PIN diodes may be at fault. I know little about the R8. My tech knowledge goes back to tube gear. Working on the R8 is out of my league. hi. But they will put it back in the orig specs. I am glad that Drake still works on the R8 series. How long they will continue, who knows? Grove does any longer and they sid parts are not available. But Drake has plenty of parts.
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