Lucky wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Fresh from the Universal site:

http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0082.html

Scroll down and read the sorry news.

This is a sad day indeed.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


HA HA HA

Such a great receiver that no one is buying them!

No one? At least three were sold just today.

I love it. Soon we won't
hear dxace the "kids voice" hawk his old equipment anymore. This is too
cool.
Happy day for me....

But I'll still have my equipment, and still out DX you any day of the week.
After all, I already have.

LMAO

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I don't think Drake pulling out of the SW receiver market has anything
to do with the quality of the product. Every review I've read gives
their products high marks. They are pulling out for the same reason so
many other companies have stopped making SW receivers - declining
demand. Both hobbies, SWLing and Ham radio are gradually losing out to
competition from the internet and other ways of communicating and
getting information. Consequently there is less demand for the
asssociated hardware.

Look around at the number of SWL and amateur radio retailers that have
closed in the past decade. The latest Passport to World Band Radio has
advertisements for one principal radio manufacturer when is past years
they had many. Signs of change are unfortunately everywhere.


Lucky wrote:
"dxAce" wrote in message
...
Fresh from the Universal site:

http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0082.html

Scroll down and read the sorry news.

This is a sad day indeed.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


HA HA HA

Such a great receiver that no one is buying them! I love it. Soon we
won't
hear dxace the "kids voice" hawk his old equipment anymore. This is
too
cool.
Happy day for me....

Lucky

David wrote:

Grove.

Grove has two (2) left. They indicated that no more are available from Drake.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:36:13 -0500, dxAce
wrote:



Michael Lawson wrote:

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
...
Fresh from the Universal site:

http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0082.html

Scroll down and read the sorry news.

This is a sad day indeed.

Damn. And I wasn't ready yet to buy one.

I've got this bad feeling that the prices on used R8/R8A/R8B
are about to go up a bit, for a while at least.

I guess at this point you might wish to call AES and/or HRO to inquire if they
still have any in stock.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I am sorry to see that Drake is discontinuing those Great Radios.I wish
I had the money to buy one.I can wish,can't I? Maybe someday a Drake
radio will turn up in the Goodwill thrift store I check out two or three
times every week.Even if it needs repair,I would send it somewhere for
repair.
cuhulin

Strategies vary, but if I didn't have one, I'm of the school that it's
better to get a receiver that's actually made currently than be stuck
with a broken one when it breaks.

The R8B is very nice but it's also a lot of money. My chief unmet need
is a better selectivity against really huge signals on the adjacent
channel, so as to copy 910 kHz LSB when there's a local on 920.

Unfortunately I can't null the 920 because I'm already nulling another
station on 910.

The R8B does pretty well but I need more dB here.
--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Ron Hardin wrote:

Strategies vary, but if I didn't have one, I'm of the school that it's
better to get a receiver that's actually made currently than be stuck
with a broken one when it breaks.

Service will be available for years, either at Drake or through another tech.

My R7 (still one of the best dx machines ever built) is still readily serviced
by numerous technicians throughout the USA.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

The value,money value and history value,of those Drake Radios and all
Drake Radios will only go up from now on.It is as though Harley Davidson
was to stop building those Great Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
cuhulin

dxAce wrote:

Michael Lawson wrote:

"Michael Lawson" wrote in message
...

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
Fresh from the Universal site:

http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0082.html

Scroll down and read the sorry news.

This is a sad day indeed.

Damn. And I wasn't ready yet to buy one.

I've got this bad feeling that the prices on used R8/R8A/R8B
are about to go up a bit, for a while at least.

I guess at this point you might wish to call AES and/or HRO to inquire if they
still have any in stock.

I called HRO and they stated that they never carried the R8B.



dxAce
Michigan
USA

wrote in message
oups.com...

dxAce wrote:
Fresh from the Universal site:

http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0082.html

Scroll down and read the sorry news.

This is a sad day indeed.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

That's weird. I wonder why they didn't just come out and tell me it was
discontinued? Anyway, this is very sad.

All I can say is: SNAP 'EM UP!! You won't be able to purchase them new
much longer!

Steve


Steve,
for the money, I'd much rather buy a AOR 7030+. The same guy that designed
the Lowe 150 designed the 7030. BTW, I hooked up my 150 last night and the
sound quality is just superb. Just a pleasure to listen to. But, yeah,
better to get the AOR for the money any day.

Lucky

Good points all of them. Yes, I think if you have a favorite high-end
table top, hold onto it because there are only a few companies making
them any more. I'm not sure shortwave will prove to be a viable
alternative to the net in China. The governmental net controls are far
from perfect right now. I see a gradual loosening of controls on
society in general and the net in particular as China becomes more
secure in it's position as a major economic and political player.