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KA9P
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Rating: 5/5
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May 23, 2002 23:08
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Too much fun!
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Time owned: 6 to 12 months
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This receiver is what professional receivers are about. You can read the displays, handle the knobs, punch the keys and have a great time.
Most everything you've read about it is true. It does have an annoying AGC pop on ssb/cw unless the gain is manually backed down. There is a little digital hash on the audio output. The audio is pretty crisp. But you can get used to all of it. Audio recovery is outstanding on AM, and otherwise blows the doors off the receiver section of my TS870S in every respect except except the 870's smoooooth, mellow audio and a few ergonomic factors related to selectivity adjustment and bandwidth centering.
It's not a radio for everyone, but it's a radio every receiver junkie should have, at least for a while. The scanning features with squelch are handy, as it makes it easy to monitor for 10 AM openings, for example. And the plethora of selectivity settings and steep skirts make possible everything from 8 khz AM to useable cw selectivity of less than 100 hz.
The reviewed version is a late model HF1000A with 4.0.9 firmware and the preselector. The receiver is used routinely about a mile or south south of a 50 KW AM broadcast station on 1000 khz, and shows no sign of it, either with or without the preselector (so the preselector may not be something you'd want to look for).
But if you can, try before you buy. It's a radio that really does require a test drive.
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ODXA-RMS
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Rating: 5/5
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Aug 1, 2001 12:31
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Advanced SWL Receiver
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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One of the best DSP receivers for tough catch SWL listening; complex operating manual, and takes some time to learn all the tricks. Ready to plug in SE-3 and also works well with MFJ DSP audio units. Plan AM reception mediocre, but the SAM (synchronous AM) mode more than makes up for this. You can use SE-3 and SAM at same time, like diversity reception. BNC antenna input. 100 memories & you can scan between memory inputs. Gets useable audio where R5000 can't
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