[ICOM] "Drake" vs. "Sherwood" R4C

[Clark Savage Turner]

In fairness to our beloved ICOM receivers, I would say that Rob 
Sherwood's R4C is not a Drake product...it is so modified and changed 
that I suspect a creative engineer could make most of our rigs do 
nearly as well with some effort (check out what George at INRAD is 
doing for the Ten Tec OMNI VI through use of a good, narrow roofing 
filter.  I suspect the OMNI will compete with the modified R4C for that 
very close-in spacing BDR number.)  One man's opinion (or wishful 
thinking!)

Clark
WA3JPG

On Sep 8, 2004, at 11:11 PM, David J. Ring, Jr. wrote:

> Rob Sherwood says that the Drake R4C is top dog receiver and he makes 
> awsome
> products to make it so - and that receiver is excellent, but I'd like 
> him to
> compare it to the receiver in the ICOM 756PRO2
>
> I wish I had my R4C with Tubesters and the Sherwood filters now that I 
> come
> to think of it, I wish I had bought the Noise Blanker and all the
> accessories, too!
>
> But I'd love to see a showdown against the "new" ICOM technologies!
>
> Would make fascinating reading!