Has anyone in the group done any serious or very serious DXing with a
Drake SW8 (preferably the newer version)? What did you think of both
the performance and your results?

denny wrote:
Has anyone in the group done any serious or very serious DXing with a
Drake SW8 (preferably the newer version)? What did you think of both
the performance and your results?


Yes. I've taken an older version out into the North Woods, with
excellent results using a random wire antenna, against an earth ground.

Off the whip it's not nutslappingly impressive. But with an external
antenna, very nice, indeed.

Given the quality of local radio in and around the North Woods...DX,
MW and SW, is a sanity saver.

D Peter Maus wrote:

Off the whip it's not nutslappingly impressive.


It's not nutslappingly impressive?

Try this for a dipole antenna....


http://tinyurl.com/294gt3








mike

In article PDCGj.2047$_v3.2020@edtnps90, m II wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/294gt3

Oh yeah?If you want your nuts cracked the hard way go with this model.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000UB0004/bookstorenow46-20

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Telamon
Ventura, California

"denny" wrote in message
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Has anyone in the group done any serious or very serious DXing with a
Drake SW8 (preferably the newer version)? What did you think of both
the performance and your results?

I have one and I use it every day, love it.
Harder to use then my Satellite 800 but I use both of them @ the some time
sometime.

Burr

LIFE'S A BITCH. don't vote for one

Red Mountain, Ca./Asia

Grundig Sat 800 Mill, Drake SW8

Uniden BC895XLT & 245, YB 400,

& a little Sangean DT110

Long Wire, sloping "L",

Stoner Dymek DA100D

Discone Antenna

Telamon wrote:

Oh yeah?If you want your nuts cracked the hard way go with this model.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000UB0004/bookstorenow46-20


Made in China?

Bill is(*) apparently still quite intact, making it the most ineffectual
device for the job.




(*) http://www.yourdictionary.com/is



mike

denny wrote:

Has anyone in the group done any serious or very serious DXing with a
Drake SW8 (preferably the newer version)? What did you think of both
the performance and your results?

I have the newer SW8 in addition to an R8B. The SW8 is a very good
receiver for listening to international broadcasters and occasional SSB
stations but it doesn't have the features or performance of the R8B for
"serious DX'ing". If you are currently using a Sony-2010, I don't think
you would be that impressed with an SW8. The R8B is the way to go for
someone in your situation that wants to upgrade to a high end receiver.