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Equipment / Re: Drake SW1
« on: September 17, 2017, 1502 UTC »
Yes, I'm convinced the SW1 is garbage. I have an old  National NC109 tube receiver that put my R8 to shame, It will pick up stations the R8 could only have dreamed of doing, probably because as you say it seems to handle rfi better, it's much quieter than the R8 was.
Oh well, I'll put the SW1 up for sale.
Thanx for the input.

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Equipment / Drake SW1
« on: September 16, 2017, 1921 UTC »
Hi,
I was wondering if anybody has done an alignment or adjustments on Drake's SW1 receiver? Or any other improvements for reception.
The only thing I can find on it is the manual. I am running about 90 ft random wire that works fine with my National 109 and several other radios I have but the Drake sucks. I use to own /bought  a new Drake R8 back in the day and it sucked so bad I got rid of it, Now many,many years later I saw this SW1 for almost nothing and picked it up only to realize and affirm my dislike for Drake radios.
Any info on checking the alignment or other possible problems would be appreciated.

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