Hi Martin;

Lou Klein was selling a Drake receiver.

You might want to contact Lou to see if it is still available.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Martin McCormick 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 4:25 PM
  Subject: A Replacement for an Icom R71 Receiver


  I am looking for a communications receiver to replace my
  aging ICR71 which I have had for about 22 years of generally
  great service on HF. I run separate transmit and receive so I
  only need to worry about receiver quality in this decision.

  What I have in mind is something with generally the same
  capabilities as the ICR71 with hopefully a serial interface that
  I can use with a computer.

  I have a Uniden BC780 scanner which I can fully control
  with the exception of things like volume and squelch from a
  Linux computer. The serial commands are turse, but not hard to
  master.

  It would be nice to have that same capability on HF.
  Also, if the HF receiver had that serial interface, it wouldn't
  matter so much if it had an on-board speech output since the
  computer could read the information one needed and its speech
  synthesizer would tell you what frequency was being heard.

  I seem to remember the ICR71 was around 600 Dollars so I
  am figuring on needing to spend something similar.  I think
  every 20 to 25 years, it's time for a newer receiver.

  The R71 is still working, but getting really strange
  glitches in its behavior, probably due to electrolytic
  capacitors reaching the end of their lives.

  Any suggestions are appreciated.

  Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
  Systems Engineer
  OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group