[Premium-Rx] WJ 8718

[Terry O'Laughlin]

They may be referring to the WJ-8617 and 8618 which could be configured as 
HF radios (I own one in HF guise).  They cost about 4 times as much for the 
base configuration.

Best,
Terry O'


At 12:04 PM 11/20/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>While reading some of the old WJ Technotes, I found one entitled "HF
>Receiver Design".  In it the authors talked about the design of the WJ 8718
>receiver.  It was apparently designed to be a lower cost HF receiver.  Now
>I'm curious; the 8718 was supposed to be designed to sell for about a
>quarter of a standard HF receiver cost according to this Technote.  Since
>the selling price was around $8000, what were the standard receivers that
>sold for four times this much?  Harris and Racal were going for about this
>same price, maybe a bit more, but certainly not four times as much.  I would
>sure like to find one of those standard receivers!
>
>John Reed
>
>
>
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