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Review Summary For : Drake R7
Reviews: 11MSRP: 1,295.00 to $1,549.00
Description:
General Coverage and Ham Bands
Product is not in production
More Info: http://www.dproducts.be/Drake_museum/r-7.htm
# last 180 days Avg. Rating last 180 days Total reviews Avg. overall rating
00114.9
G4VGO Rating: 2000-06-09
Great Receiver, Great Value Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
I have two receivers at my station. Both are Drake and both are 5/5+! The Drake R7 with the Sherwood 200 Hz CW filter and the InRad 400 Hz filter is the second best receiver I have ever used. It has great dynamic range, superb selectivity, it is sensitive, and if you leave it on all of the time it is stable (the only problem the 7 line seemed to have, 100 Hz drift from cold start).

In contests on 160m in Europe, it does a tremendous job on CW. Strong local signals just can not clobber it. In the 200 Hz position it is one of the two finest CW receivers I have operated in my more than 30 years as an amatuer. The AGC is smooth and effective. The passband tuning is like velvet. The built-in pre-amp does not cause intermod problems on the lower bands like many other receivers and transceivers.

The first best receiver I have is the Sherwood modified Drake R4C with 250 and 125 Hz filters.

A very close second is the R7. From an ease of operation and value for money standpoint , five out of five and more.

I use my FT-1000MP for a transmitter only now, with the Drakes doing the receive duty on 160m.

Too bad Drake isn't still in the amatuer business.