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| Reviews Summary for Drake R-4 |
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Reviews: 3
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Average rating: 5.0/5
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MSRP: $$495 in 1960
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Description: 160-10m receiver with the ability to cover WARC and 500khz to 30mhz with additional crystals. can be run with T-4,T-4X,either as seperate or transive. a very sensitive receiver
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Product is not in production.
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More info: http://www.wb4hfn.com/r-4
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STEVEQ
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Rating: 5/5
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Jan 11, 2010 06:58
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Great Receiver
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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Very pleased with this receiver, adding it to my growing Drake collection. The filters for CW are outstanding as I am back in radio as a SWL after years away. I like the tone of the audio coming through my headset, very nice.
I switch back and forth from a random long wire to a dipole antenna and this Drake performs just find on both, but as you can imagine the simple long wire can get noisy at times.
Drake knew what they were doing when the built the "R" series. Now to get some extra xtals and see what comes in. Would buy this rig again, very pleased........ try one you will like it.
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VE3CUI
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Rating: 5/5
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Jan 14, 2008 04:32
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Where You Been To Now...?!
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I just gave myself a set of Drake Twins this past Christmas (to serve as a back-up station to my "Rice Rockets"), and all I can say about the R-4 is "...WOW...!"
Where HAS this rig been hiding lo these past 38 years in my career as an Amateur...?
The audio on SSB has to be heard to be believed. It is just a superlative rig overall, and I especially like the fact that this is one outfit that I can actually service / repair all by myself, should the need ever arise.
~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ (gswynar@durham.net)
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WB7QXU
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Rating: 5/5
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Oct 28, 2005 20:54
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sharp ears
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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This old receiver has very sensitive ears and hears signals just as good as the Icom 756PROII w/o preamps. It has good selectivity for its age. I can tune out stronger signals with the notch filter and great passband tuning too. it has built in RC filters for 4.8AM, 2.4SSB, 1.2 CW RTTY, 400hz for CW. with extra crystals can receive 500khz-30mhz. Supper AM rececption, Nice pleased full quality audio no synthesizer noise from solid state radios. I am very impressed with this radio, I seldom use my PROII, this old rig is so much fun. It works great with the T-4x transmitter either split or tranceive. I prefer seperate, I just spot the xmitter.
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