Re: [IRCA] What's the best Receiver and Antenna?

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

I think the best answer was yours, depends on what he's looking for. The 
receiver that you use, the Drake R8 etc. seems to be the receiver of choice 
for many serious MW DX'ers. I prefer to have something I can work on, tune 
up etc. so I use boatanchors, some of which are: R-390-A which is probably 
as good as the best of today, Hammarlund HQ-180, National HRO-60 and 
Hammarlund SP-600 all of which give a very good accounting of themselves in 
the medium wave bands. I believe the state of the art in antennas today are 
2 LW's (best of which is a beverage if you have the space) and other outside 
antennas such as the pennant etc. and and very importantly a phaser with the 
outside antennas especially the LW's.
I think there is a lot of bang for the buck in the old Hammarlunds 
especially if you are on a limited budget, HQ129,s 140's and 150's (rare and 
more expensive) are all good radios and usually can be had for less than 
three hundred bucks which won't buy a lot of radio brand new nowadays.

Bob Young
Millbury, Ma


> From: "Doug Pifer-desert4wd.com" <oregon4wd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [IRCA] What's the best Receiver and Antenna?
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:38:23 -0800
>
> Hi All,
> My brother, who lives in another state want's to know what the best 
> receiver
> and antenna is.  I'm presuming he means for the BCB since he used to or
> maybe still doe's DX.  I told him in an email a few weeks ago, it depends 
> on
> what he is looking for but apparently he forgot about that and would still
> like to know what's the best. So, I pose this question to you. In your
> opinion, what do you think are the best set-ups for small, medium and large
> budgets?
> Thanks and 73- Doug
> Drake R8B and Kiwa loop
>
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