Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!prophet
From: prophet@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dennis Gibbs)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Table-top shortwave receivers
Message-ID: <2712@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 17:50:06 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2712
Posted: Sat Jan 26 17:50:06 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 11:23:55 EST
Distribution: net
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
Lines: 35


<>

With all the recent talk on recommendations on portable shortwave receivers, I
would like to  hear  some  recommendations  on  good table top  (non-portable)
shortwave receivers.  I am looking for a good general-coverage (~100Khz-30Mhz)
receiver around the $500 range.  I would like to stick pretty close to $500 as
the top figure, but I would be willing to spend a  little  more  if  I  find a
receiver that is worth the extra money.

I am looking for a receiver with good  basic  performance  (Good  sensitivity,
good selectivity, accurate digital readout, good stability, and reliable).  It
has been awhile since I have been involved with this hobby, and there are many
new brands of receivers I am not familiar with.  I don't  need  anything  with
lots of memory or presets, I just need good basic performance.

It seems there are three brands of receivers that are advertised  quite  often
in QST and Ham-radio magazine.  Those brands are Kenwood, Icom, and Yaesu.   I
have heard that Icom has had reliabilty problems, but this is third-hand info-
rmation.

Does anyone have any recommendations and suggestions for  a  general  coverage
receiver, keeping the above requirements in mind?  Where is a  good  place  to
purchase a receiver these days??

Thanks in advance...

Dennis Gibbs

-- 
Call-Me:   Dennis Gibbs, Univ. of Md. Comp. Sci. Center.
UUCP:	   {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!prophet
CSNet:	   prophet@umcp-cs
BITNET:    GIBBS@UMDB
ARPA:	   prophet@Maryland