Hi Stan,

I have several small radios. I don't have G8 but I have
PL310 and D96L. Personally I am very disappointed in both
of those DSP receivers. They have too much internally
generated noise and strange AGC action (hard to use them
with additional magnetic loop antenna and AGC pumping
makes weak signals reception really bad).

For casual MW listening as well as DXing my G5 and DE1103
work so much better. Although G5 has better ergonomics and
sound quality than 1103, I discovered that G5 I own has
some het on 540 kHz while DE1103 is "clean" (on the other
hand, the 1103 has more noisy LCD backlighting but this can
be turned off).

So currently the DE1103 is my top performer on MW as far
as small (but not "ultralight") radios are concerned.
In "ultralight" category the Sony SFR59 was and still
remains my favorite. :)

It's just my $0.02...

Good luck!
Peter

--- On Mon, 3/15/10, Stan <l8r2day@... <mailto:l8r2day%40digging4roots.com>> wrote:

From: Stan <l8r2day@...

<mailto:l8r2day%40digging4roots.com>>

Subject: Re: [ultralightdx] Advice / Question
To: ultralightdx@... <mailto:ultralightdx%40yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 4:29 PM
Richard,
Thanks for the response. I've read the sync on the G3 has
greatly
improved since it's introduction. My listing is almost
exclusively MW.
I've given up on SW as most of the interesting players are
no longer on
the air. Sync is nice but not essential, if one can
tune up/down 1-2
khz to get rid of the interference. How does the G5 stack
up to the G8?


Richard Berler wrote:

My experience is that the newer G3's are MUCH better

with sync; they

hold lock on very weak signals (try out some new

samples that show up

at Radio Shack). Another alternative that works is

using ssb and zero

beating the signal. The dx/local switch is really a

low pass

filter...on ssb and sync in locales with local am

stations, mixing

products impact reception (the G6 has a similar

problem, but no

dx/local switch to offer help...touching the antenna

helps). The local

position deals with this very well on the G3. Not a

big sensitivity

loss, and indiscernable above about 13 MHz (Of course,

on mw, there is

no need to put it in local). On mw, the G3 appears

similar to the G6

head to head on batteries. Sync and choice of upper

and lower sideband

is a plus. The G5, by contrast, is quite sensitive

across the mw band

(the G3 & G6 are much less sensitive above about

1300 KHz).

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