[Premium-Rx] Help choosing HF receiver

[Joe Jesson]

I also like AM DXing and my favorite classic is the Scott Philharmonic
crome-plated radio.  The Wj-8718 had terrible audio until I realized I had
to match the radio's audio output of 600 ohm to a 3.2 ohm speaker. All was
good after that.

If you want to try BCB dxing on the latest SDR receiver (Airspy HF +
Discovery) with an active regenerative loop, I think you will be surprised!
Adding a klipsch speaker was like icing on the cake :-)


On Sat, Jul 1, 2023, 4:34 PM Enrique Fernandez García via Premium-Rx <
premium-rx at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Dear group,
>
> After having some conventional receivers, Drakes, Lowe, AOR and a Winradio
> SDR I have decided to make a step further and geting a professional
> receiver, although I had already got a Racal 1772 and for my taste it was
> quite noisy.
>
> I would be very pleased if the members of this forum could indicate me in
> the right direction and throw some light in which receiver to choose since
> I am a bit confused in this aspect.
>
> I am mainly interested in voice signals, not digital modes, mainly BCB and
> SWL, digging tropical band stations out of the mud so audio recovery and
> audio in general is quite important.
>
> After surfing the web and readind on eham and in forums, I have in mind
> these receivers (in no special order):
>
>  -Racal 3791, but it is said that the audio is not as pleasant as the RA
> 3701.
>  -Racal 3701, on the contrary of the DSP version RA3791 is an analogic IF
> design  and as indicated before its sound is ways better but it does not
> have the additional independent IF BW options
> - R&S EK895, with the quasi-continuous tuning fitted.
> - WJ 8711A
> - Cubic CDR-3280
>
>  Any help and thoughts are very wellcomed. Any other receiver apart from
> the above?
>
>  Thanks in advance
>  Regards
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