[Premium-Rx] Fw: Help choosing HF receiver

[Enrique Fernandez García]

Hello Joe,

 Yes, an EK895 owner told me that the perfomance was very similar,almost equal, to the Airspy HF+ discovery not discerneable difference.

 I have already got a SDR receiver, a Winradio G33DDC Excalibur Pro, I am not very happy with it. Every now and then overloads, it has fitted a preselector and attenuator but I am not totally convinced about the perfomance. 
For my taste is too noisy, comparing weak signals my Lowe HF-150 is equal if not better in most cases. As antenna I use a Wellbrook ALA 100M.
Maybe I should add add an external USB card in order to improve the Winradio.

Regards.

    ----- Mensaje reenviado ----- De: Joe Jesson <jejesson4 at gmail.com>Para: Enrique Fernandez García <enriqueeeeee2001 at yahoo.es>CC: Premium Premium receiver <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>Enviado: domingo, 2 de julio de 2023, 22:36:29 CESTAsunto: Re: [Premium-Rx] Help choosing HF receiver
 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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