[Premium-Rx] Looking for comments on TCI/BR Model 8174 receivers

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TCI makes equipment for professionals. PCR1000 is designed, approved by FCC
(and similar regulatory agencies in other countries) and sold as a toy. 
It is a toy indeed, needless to say a zero performer below 30 MHz.

8174 is rather a conventional receiver employing DSP IF processing,
contrary to, say 95S-1A. Below 30 MHz 95S-1A is not much different,
though. I suppose many 8174s are retired now and being replaced
by so called software defined radios with RF preselection. They are
not better than 8174 on any  analog mode, where they really
outperform conventional DSP receivers are digital mode signal
acquisition, correlative direction finding and parallel multifrequency
intercept. Interesting enough, the hardware of some new professional SDRs
is much more complicated as compared with older DSP receivers. 

Anyway, 8174 is a great receiver, I tried one several years ago before
buying 95S-1A. The only point one must consider buying such piece
of equipment is control software. I will not necessarily work
properly under Win XP, for instance.
Regards
AW 

"joe.watson" <wwatson5 at cox.net> wrote:

>Correction:  PCR-1000.
>
>Joe
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: joe.watson
>  To: premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org
>  Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 8:33 AM
>  Subject: [Premium-Rx] Looking for comments on TCI/BR Model 8174 receivers
>
>
>  I have seen some of the TCI/BR Model 8174 and similar receivers on eB recently.  I have a growing interest in software defined radios and was wondering how good these receivers really are.  Have any of you had any experience with them?  How do they compare with Icom PRC-1000?
>
>  Would appreciate any feedback.
>
>  Joe Watson
>  Edmond, OK
>
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