"Rob" wrote in message
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R8B is a big dissapointment too....as with anything made by DRAKE

I would consider myself fortunate if I could claim to have owned a Drake SW
receiver long enough to have been able to test it to the point where I could
find its weak points. Though I haven't owned this radio, I've listened to
those owned by friends, and can say that they are pretty much without peer
in the SW receiver world at their price level.

I assume from the tone of your post that you had a negative experience with
a Drake shortwave receiver?

Jackie