Re: [HCDX] What rigs and antenna does everyone use?

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> > I am wondering with the diversity of people and their location what kind
> of
> > receiver and antennas is everyone using?


I use two Panasonic portables, a 1978 RF-2200 - purchased 22 years ago this
month and still going strong! and a RFB-45.  I bought the RFB-45 in 1993,
after the Sony ICF-7600D that I got in 1986 crapped out and died, and was
told that the cost of repairs would be as much as a new radio.

I used to have a longwire, but no longer use it.  I use only the built-in
ferrite sticks and whip antennas.  The RF-2200's "GYRO antenna" is the usual
ferrite stick, but is separate from the main body of the radio.  Though
dating from the Carter Administration, and a pain in the butt to tune
accurately because of the lack of digital readout, the RF-2200 is still one
of the best receivers for MW DXing.  But it's too hefty for travel (the
RF-2200 is only a "portable" when compared to, say, a Collins R-390 :) so I
don't leave home without the RFB-45.  It's done yeoman service while I was
in India and on several yoga retreats, mainly to the Kripalu Center
http://www.kripalu.org  over the years.

73
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Mike Brooker
99 Wychcrest Ave.,
Toronto, ON  M6G 3X8
CANADA
(416) 536-7406
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