[Premium-Rx] better receivers.

[Michael O'Beirne]

Evening folks,

I have read some of the recent offerings on newer and better radios.  I am afraid to say, in best Irish manner, include me out of this new mania for radios controlled entirely by the PC. If it hasn't got a robust 19 inch panel, a decent handsome layout, big chunky knobs and, essentially, a super smooth flywheel-weighted tuning knob, then I'm not interested.  

I do very much approve of Steve Stutman's thoughts on Swiss ball bearings.  You'll find some in the gearbox of the Plessey PR155 (and with incredible skew cut gears as well) and don't think of the cost!!!

No gents, when the radio is reduced to a PC buried deep inside the PC with linear predictive encoded speech (ie some Oriental voice) and Lord knows what else, why bother with HF, cut off the antenna and just use the Web.

For me the fun is the unpredictability of the medium and using super high quality radio in a form that is pleasing to me.  That's why all the awful black rice boxes are best passed by on the other side.

73s to all,
Michael O'Beirne
G8MOB
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