[Hallicrafters] OffTopic ... All band portable receivers?

[Greg Mijal]

Handheld All band RX?

Go buy a webbook and a USB powered SDR receiver with IQ output.
Runs way better than a lot of stuff. Should be integrated and on the shelf 
in under 5 years I'll bet.
I'm not so sure there is a hand held on the market worth a toot.
The 10 - 15 year old Radio Shack Sangean clones are pretty good. but not as 
small as the baby Icom.  I had a RS DX something or other Sangean clone that 
I used to take out to the beach.  One Sunday afternoon I copied Duane and 
company doing the Halli net.  A couple Kcs down was a South American station 
and a couple Kcs up was a european.  The radio was the version with the LCD 
readout, BFO and tuning dial on the side.  Ebay has them for around $50 and 
well worth it.
Happy hunting
Greg
WA7LYO
Kinston NC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Hogg" <rodk0eqh at wbsnet.org>
To: "'Julian Bunn'" <Julian.Bunn at caltech.edu>; 
<hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] OffTopic ... All band portable receivers?


Julian,

You might check at a local RadioShack for a discontinued All band portable.
They used to have several models, some of the more advanced ones had a BFO
for SSB/CW reception.  Some were Grundig clones and other mfgs.

A Grundig Yacht Boy 400, or a Sony ICF-SW7600 are long since discontinued
but offer very good performance, both have SSB mode.  The Sony is even
selectable SB!.  Selectivity is nothing to brag about, but general coverage
digital tuning and good sensitivity at the price is hard to beat, besides
size and battery powered.

They do NOT have any VHF coverage however.

My $0.02 comment.....

Rod
KØEQH


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Julian Bunn
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:24 PM
To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Hallicrafters] OffTopic ... All band portable receivers?

Perhaps some of you wise folks can recommend a handheld all band receiver? I
bought an Icom IC-R3 about a year ago (the Japanese version that also covers
cell frequencies, not that that is important to me) and have been
disappointed with it, for several reasons:
A) very confusing controls ... I have to read the instruction manual every
time I use it!
B) poor sensitivity ... My SX28 picks up more stuff!

It also has a video mode, but even with an x10 wireless camera next to it,
barely brings in a picture.

I mainly want to use it for emergency services and listening on the ham
bands.

So I'm looking for something similar but better, and wondered if anybody
could suggest something?

Thanks, and apologies for being off topic.

Julian

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