Radio Shacks that still have them are selling them at about half price...$80 something dollars! Great deal!
Heatwave

--- On *Mon, 3/15/10, Stan /<l8r2day@...>/* wrote:


From: Stan <l8r2day@...>
Subject: Re: [ultralightdx] Advice / Question
To: ultralightdx@...
Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 4:39 PM

Thanks Peter,
Maybe I'll look for a G5.
Stan.

Piotr Balcerzak wrote:
>
> 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@...
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> <mailto:l8r2day%40digging4roots.com>> wrote:
>
> > From: Stan <l8r2day@...
<http://us.mc576.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=l8r2day@digging4roots.com>

> <mailto:l8r2day%40digging4roots.com>>
> > Subject: Re: [ultralightdx] Advice / Question
> > To: ultralightdx@...
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> > 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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