[JRC] CHE-199 Sensitivity

Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:08:47 -0700

My NRD-525 has outstanding sensitivity on 6 and 2 meters... it will hear
everything that my MMT 50/144 transverter will... I was very surprised to notice
this when I first got the convertor boards installed... 73 de Jordan...

[email protected] wrote:

> Dear Rick,
>
> Every write up I have read about these converters for the JRC and Drake vhf
> and uhf, especially true for the JRC 545, have stated how these converters
> all appear to be deaf and extremely overpriced for their extremely poor
> performance.  All the critics/evaluators suggested do not buy or get a stand
> alone scanner for less money, unless they need vhf or uhf ssb performance
> where some other choice would still be better than the JRC or DRAKE
> converters.  These converters seem to be added as an after thought because
> their performance does not come remotely close to their terrific HF
> performance.  You would think that JRC and Drake would be ashamed to charge
> what they do for such poor performance.  The Drake only covers from 35-55 Mhz
> and 108-174 Mhz.  For the price of the extremely limited range of the Drake
> converter, you could get a very nice and wide range scanner.  I hope that
> helps...
>
> Chuck
> n8gmb
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