Re: [IRCA] Receivers and DXing in the future

[saulamdx <saulamdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

DXing doesn't require big dollars. Half my equipment
is from garage sales. The rest is portables, fairly
inexpensive car radios modified for portable use.
Works well enough. I have fun. I've had double-hop Es
using a used B&W portable TV with a 5-inch screen,
cost me $20. Like Willis, I'd trade it all in in a
flash if my loved one needed help, though I really
would prefer a proper medicare system. Here's a
challenge for the New Year: Whoever can get the best
DX using the cheapest equipment gets the Fred Sandford
award.


--- Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was thinking this afternoon about the comment
> Willis Monk made as I
> was looking through the new WRTH. After being able
> to buy a pretty
> decent receiver for a couple hundred dollars back in
> the 60s/70s, the
> prices on the few receivers of today have really
> skyrocketed in price. I
> see few standard communication receivers like the R8
> (Drake is out of
> the communication receiver business now), but there
> isn't a lot of new
> ones to choose  that the average person can afford,
> unless you buy a
> portable. Even the JRC 545 is going for $1800. I
> think the Palstar goes
> for $600, and it is pretty decent and then the Yaesu
> 100, but I don't
> know anything about the Yaesu.  The Palstar does not
> have a noise
> blanker which I would need here. The new Palstar
> coming out in 2006 for
> under $1,000 is supposed to have a lot of extra
> goodies including the
> noise blanker. Basically an analog receiver with
> digital readout. Of
> course you have all of the computer rigs, but they
> don't interest a lot
> of us. Then the really high end ones like the
> Watkins Johnson unit for
> $5500!!! Which is "Far" out of most people's
> pocketbooks. So the radio
> situation has sure changed. QSLing isn't the only
> thing. I guess used
> receivers may be the best way for some to go. But I
> was really surprised
> on how things have really changed out there in just
> the past year or
> two. Then to top it off the prospect of IBOC in the
> future across the
> band doesn't help either. Things are sure a changin'
> like Bob Dylan
> would say.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Patrick 
> 
> Patrick Martin
> Seaside  OR
> KAVT Reception Manager
> 
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