[Boatanchors] LOOKING FOR BEGINNER'S SWL RECEIVER

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Dan,
Watch the auction site for an Allied SX-190.  These are 1970s vintage.  
You can usually get them for around $100 when they show up - fairly 
often..  It's a solid state radio loosely based on the Collins 75A-4 
design - there has been an article about it in Electric Radio within the 
past 2-3 years.  There's also a very similar AX-190, which is amateur 
bands only, but the SX-190 went from AM broadcast to 30 MHz as I vaguely 
recall.  It's a decent radio, and well worth that price range.

Bob K4ERR

K0DAN wrote:
> Hello Group...
>
> I have a friend who is retired and is going crazy from boredom. He's 
> not a
> radio person, altho I think he might enjoy HF SWL and I was thinking of
> buying buy him a vintage (?) receiver (e.g. SX-110, HQ-110, etc.). 
> Something
> general coverage but not too complicated. But also not total junk and 
> with a
> front end with at least modest selectivity & sensitivity. Then I got
> thinking maybe some of the 80's vintage Yaesu/Kenwood/Icom receivers 
> might
> be better, especially something with a product detector...I don't know
> what's out there (I'm familiar with the modern stuff and the boatanchors,
> but not much in between).
>
> I don't want to spend a lot of money (thinking $100 +/-) as I'm not sure
> he'll take an interest in SWL. He has totally non-electronic, so a fix-up
> project is NOT what we need...something that works fine and looks 1/2
> decent, but need not look like a museum piece.
>
> Any suggestions, offers, referrals, etc.?
>
> Tnx es 73
>
> Dan
> K0DAN
> k0dan at comcast.net
> Kansas City
>
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