$5,000 hamburger? You can do better than that at the Montana Testicle
Festival.
google it, www.google.com Montana Testicle Festival

Hey,when I want a hamburger,I cook up some lean ground steak and I make
my own healthy hamburgers.I never eat that s..t at them eat joints.
cuhulin

How would you compare the performance of those two receivers when using
their whip antennas on HF? The SW8 is known for being somewhat
insensitive on it's whip, particularly the earlier versions. Drake made
an improvement to the whip in 1994 by redesigning the matching impedance
of the whip's input circuit. Contrary to what some believe, Drake never
added a pre-amp to the SW8 whip circuit. However this was done on the
Sat-800 which is closely related to the SW8. It's why the Sat-800 is
more sensitive on it's whip for HF than the SW8.
What year was your SW8 made?

Well, you're right...for the SW8 to shine, it requires something more
than just the whip. For greatest simplicity, one of those Miracle Whip
antennas will do in a pinch...easy to use, connects directly to more or
less become a part of the radio, and provides a decent amount of gain
over the whip. Of course, ideally a higher gain antenna should be
used.

I've got two SW8s: a '94 and a '96 (w/synchronous selectable sideband;
better sensitivity).

The E1 definitely has an edge when we're talking about sensitivity off
the whip. But then, I don't really use either off the whip antenna.
So that deficiency on the part of the SW8 has never been anything I've
taken into account.

Junius

Can you say Big D little a double ll a s? Can you say Drake?
cuhulin

I will tell it like it T'IS.I just flat plain do not like the name of
Eton and Satellit.Now,y'all can start off on me all y'all want too.But
my opinion is mine.I dont like the name of Degen and Kaito either.Sue
me.
cuhulin

I am Scotch Irish by Ancestry,,, dont get me started on england.Look,I
can tell y'all some things pertaining to that.I doubt if y'all would
understand.
cuhulin

If I pop $500.00 on a Radio,its going to be a BIG non toteable Radio.
cuhulin

Laugh at a joke? y'all might as well google it, Jiggs and Maggie comic
strips

Me all time favorites.

Hey,can y'all say MoBro? More about that later on.
cuhulin

"Steve" wrote in
ps.com:

So you think an R8B and a 7030+ are junk? You're really going to have
to overwhelm me with your "expertise" before I believe that.

Why are you so upset about all of this, anyway? You don't even know me,
and some casual remark I made on a newsgroup has reduced you to a
raving imbecile. Life is too short! Go have a beer or something. Laugh
at a joke and get things in perspective.

It's all gonna be okay. I promise.



Don't ever, ever, insult John's radios, them's fight'en words.

SC

"Joe Analssandrini" wrote in
ups.com:

Dear DeWayne,

Look what has happened to your original query! (And I'm afraid I also
contributed to this.)

Bottom line (in my opinion): research and buy a better MW antenna than
the AOR LA-380. One that is especially dedicated to MW should improve
your reception as much as is possible. The C. Crane is very good (I own
one) as is the Select-A-Tenna (I own one of those too) and the Quantum
antenna I mentioned in my first post is, according to Jay Allen (in his
Radio Intel review) even better yet. Check the antennas out for
yourself.

I really think that another radio is not the answer to your quest for
better MW reception (you already have one of the best); a new MW
antenna is!

Best,

Joe


I'll bet Analssandrini for a last name sucks.

SC

wrote in
:

$5,000 hamburger? You can do better than that at the Montana Testicle
Festival.
google it, www.google.com Montana Testicle Festival



I got your Rocky Mountain Oysters hang'en.

SC