Mike,
I owned an R1000 for a couple of years, and it's a very nice receiver.
It's quite easy to use, has good stability, and sounds good, especially
if you connect your favorite external speaker. It has one unusual
feature that I really liked: You can optionally set it up so that the
Wide position opens out to around 12.5 KHz, which is great for listening
to AM broadcast in really good fidelity. This is accomplished by
changing a small jumper on the PC board, but it's quite easy to do. The
"band" switch is actually a 1 MHz stepper, which makes it easy to
estimate where you are by counting the clicks. It also has a clock and
timer which a blind person can set, but I haven't had that receiver for
almost thirty years so I don't remember the details of how to do it. I
just know that at the time, I did it successfully without sighted
assistance.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 18:16
Subject: Re: General coverage receiver
Occasionally, I see Radio Shack DX160 or DX150 receivers on Ebay in the
price range Michael mentioned. I never owned a DX150, but had a DX160
for about 5 years back in the mid 1980s.
It was the typical analogue desktop single conversion receiver with a
slide rule dial. It was made through much of the 1970s. It was solid
state, with a built in AC power supply, but needed an external speaker.
. It tuned the AM band through 30 MHZ, plus the standard airport beacon
band on long wave.
As single conversion receivers of that type and price range go, it was
quite good, and was much more stable than the Zenith tube type model I
ran in the mid 60s.
When connected to the center conductor of the coax from my 80 meter
dipole, it was really hot on the AM band, and did what I wanted on short
wave, which was mostly to listen to AM on 160, 80, 40, and 10 meters. It
would also tune sideband and CW, but the AGC could be swamped by a
strong signal.
If you want something that may be a little better, look for a Kenwood
R1000, which was also from the 1980s. I never owned one, but knew
several people who did.
None of this stuff, of course, has accessible frequency displays, but
you really can enjoy them anyway.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 1:39 PM
Subject: General coverage receiver
Hi all:
I'm looking at getting a fairly inexpensive desktop rcver for my self
for Xmas something in the $150 range. Either something new or from the
used market. Any ideas?
TNX & 73 Michael De VO1RYN
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