[AMRadio] Boat Anchor Receiver

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Arnie, you need to do a critical alignment to your NC-300,  mine really works well as  the  other you mention...Russ.

--- On Thu, 12/1/11, Arnie Adelman <arnie.adelman at infosec-consultant.com> wrote:

> From: Arnie Adelman <arnie.adelman at infosec-consultant.com>
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Boat Anchor Receiver
> To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011, 4:00 PM
> Please don't overlook the older
> collins receivers.  I have and us a 75A2 
> with my Ranger.  It doesn't have the filters or
> product detector but it 
> works reallllly good on AM and CW also.  This is my
> second and both were in 
> the $125 range, needing a good cleaning, recapping, and one
> come without a 
> case.  There are plenty of really well cared for A2s
> that will cost 
> considerably more, but probably won't work any/much
> better.
> 
> I have two Drake 2Bs and love them, but not so much for
> AM.  Also the A2 
> covers 160 meters. I recently had a NC300 that worked
> pretty good but not as 
> good as the A2 or 2B - in my opinion (forgive me Carl). I
> also had a really 
> pretty HQ170A/C VHF and it drifted like crazy especially
> had the higher 
> bands.  After sticking a few pins in the VooDoo doll,
> it settled down to 
> mild neader up the band.  Both the 75A2 and Drake 2B
> are hetrodyne vfos and 
> more stable than those that try to oscillate at about 10mhz
> without 
> drifting.
> 
> Maybe that's more than 2Cents worth - you can bill me for
> the difference.
> 
> arnie - W1GCI
> 
> 
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