[Premium-Rx] Discontinued SW Receivers

[Henry Kolesnik]

To the Icom 756 Pro 2 or 3 add a good synchronous detector, VLF coverage to 
30Kc, internal power supply and battery  and it would be a winner.

73
Hank WD5JFR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>
To: "John Reed" <jreed at alum.mit.edu>; "Premium RX" 
<premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Discontinued SW Receivers


>I don't know what's up....this is very discouraging.  I can't imagine it's 
>sales.  The R-75 has been selling well from what I can tell.  Not a lot of 
>profit in it though.  I was hoping Drake would do a "C" model with 
>improvements.
>
> I know guys that are buying Icom 756 Pro II's and III's that will never 
> use the transmitter because they are not licensed.  They wanted a top 
> notch receiver using the latest DSP technology.  If Icom would deliver a 
> loaded receiver with the 32 bit DSP technology based on the 756 in the 
> just under 2K price range I think it would sell.  I thought that was what 
> they were going to do when they announced the demise of the R-8500.
>
> Oh well....up side...lots of good used stuff out there....
>
> Cecil....
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Reed" <ka5qep at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Premium RX" <premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:48 PM
> Subject: [Premium-Rx] Discontinued SW Receivers
>
>
> Over the past two days I learned that ICOM is discontinuing the IC-R75 
> receiver, and Drake is discontinuing the R8A.  As far as I know no new 
> models will replace these two.  Is the NRD-545 next?
>
> John Reed
>
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