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Colin and Bob,
This is a great discussion. A couple of years ago I had my Drake R8A given the
once over by a gentleman who I believe was a former Drake service tech. I too
am enamored with the tactile, knob twisting, button pushing actions. My DXing
forays to Hawaii and
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Colin,
Keep an open mind. I have a Winradio G31 SDR. I have never used the recording
feature (I'm strictly a real time listener), love it's features, have found it
to be great for portable operations. And I'm retired. :-) I previously had a
thoroughly modified Icom R75
