[Premium-Rx] Skanti Receiver R-8001

Sun Jul 8 16:15:32 EDT 2012

It seems odd that the front panel and the receiver have been 
separated,
but stranger things have indeed happened.

Due to the general scarcity of the R-8000 series in Sweden, I cannot 
give any hopes of finding
any spare control panels.

73/
Karl-Arne
SM0AOM

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Datum: 2012-07-08 21:05
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Ärende: Re: [Premium-Rx] Skanti Receiver R-8001

I've have a Skanti R-8001 but have never been able to find a control 
panel for it, so it has been wasting gravity..  Any leads or tips 
appreicated.
Thanks 
Hank WD5JFR
--- On Sun, 7/8/12, Karl-Arne Markström <sm0aom at telia.com> wrote:

From: Karl-Arne Markström <sm0aom at telia.com>
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Skanti Receiver R-8001
To: michaelob666 at ntlworld.com, "Roy Wildermuth" <w2it at rochester.rr.
com>
Cc: "PREMIUM-RX" <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Sunday, July 8, 2012, 9:02 AM

The Skanti TRP-8250 transceiver that Michael describes is closely 
related to the
R-8000 series of receivers.
Differences mainly are the available filter bandwidths and some 
internal construction details,and of course that they also have a 
transmit signal path. The performance with regard to dynamic range 
and 
blocking characteristics are somewhat better in the R-8000.

The TRP-8xxx series were mainstays for both civilian and military HF 
for almost 2 decades in many countries.
They also served in the first generation of GMDSS on-board equipment 
until the integrated hardware for GMDSS made them obsolete.

Skanti was a very competent HF manufacturer, but ran into financial 
problems in the early 2000''s. They joined the Eurocom group, which 
merged with Sailor (S.P. Radio A/S) and Thrane&Thrane. 

When the latter group restructured, the Skanti operations were 
terminated and its HF business was absorbed into the more well-known 
Sailor trademark.

I was lucky to "rescue" both a TRP-8750, an R-8001 and an R-8003 
(military ISB version)  when the Swedish icebreakers became civilian 
in 
the late 90's, and their radio equipment had to be upgraded to be 
fully 
GMDSS compliant. 

To my knowledge, the only R-800x receivers sold in Sweden were used 
in 
the early-90's upgrade of the icebreaker fleet.

73/
Karl-Arne
SM0AOM

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Datum: 2012-07-08 14:49
Till: "Roy Wildermuth"<w2it at rochester.rr.com>
Kopia: "PREMIUM-RX"<premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
Ärende: Re: [Premium-Rx] Skanti Receiver R-8001

Dear Roy

I have no personal experience of the R-8001 but when I was in the 
Army 
we 
used a similar HF SSB transceiver with an output of 250W.  It had a 
fairly 
similar front panel, but in grey.  I would be surprised if much of 
the 
receiver section was not based on the R8000 series (or may be vice 
versa).

It formed part of the VRC323 ground station, the prime purpose being 
last 
ditch post-nuclear strike comms between major HQs.

It used a 4 tone FEK data system with all the frills such as 
complicated 
error detection and correction, in-band diversity, patching etc.  
Thankfully 
it was never put to the real test, systems have changed, and these 
sets are 
now available surplus in the UK.

The set was beautifully built and reliable and delivered excellent 
communications quality SSB.  Personally I would have preferred a 
somewhat 
wider SSB bandwidth of 2.7 to 2.9kHz rather than the maritime spec 
of 
2.4kHz, but that's me.

A drawback was the membrane panel.  This aids reliability and 
waterproofing 
but there were no knobs at all requiring a lot of button pressing, 
which you 
may find a bore.  That was no problem for us because we used it with 
a 
PC, 
and in any event all the frequencies, modes and other requisite 
comms 
data 
for a military exercise were inputted via a floppy disk (in lieu of 
the 
usual wads of paper that we had to use with earlier systems), and 
the 
clever 
electronics did all the hard work.

I hope you enjoy it.
73s
Michael
G8MOB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Wildermuth" <w2it at rochester.rr.com>
To: <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 8:15 PM
Subject: [Premium-Rx] Skanti Receiver R-8001

>
>
> Hello All
>
> Looking for advice on a Skanti Receiver. The one in question is a 
R-
8001. 
> It is in beautiful shape.
>
> Curious if there are opinions on this radio. And also (if this is 
allowed) 
> what a fair price would be. There are two on EBay. One is from the 
guy in 
> China and the other is from a guy in PA.  both are in the $1500.00 
range. 
> One was sold not long ago for $860.00. I will say that it is a 
very 
pretty 
> radio and supposedly quite rare;
>
> Roy Wildermuth

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