Top of the line professional equipment

[n4voxgill]

I have bid on several items on this ebay site. Right now they have added several top of the line HF receivers for auction. They are not cheap.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZradio-mart

 

[elk2370bruce]

Some of the newest, highest-end rigs (if you have the money and governmental juice) start at ten grand plus and swiftly increase in cost to a point where blood will begin to drip from your nose and ears.

 

[oceans777]

and...

we paid for that new high-end govt equipment yet not one agency will allow us to borrow it for a weekend test drive.

 

[Bill_White]

DNAGER, Will Robinson...

Be careful dealing with Radio Mart...
Pleanty of BAD reviews
http://www.eham.net/forums/CompanyReviews/2713

http://www.eham.net/forums/CompanyReviews/2227


http://www.qrz.com/ib-bin/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=10;t=148216

http://www.qrz.com/ib-bin/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=10;t=145049;hl=radio+mart

I'm sure there are more...

Bill

 

[mkh]

Thanks Bill - that is good info.

 

[N8DV]

Well lets see, The Icom 7800 goes for (last time I checked) $10,500 (at AES); the Yaesu FT9000D, the 200 watt version with data management unit (DMU) was $12,500. The Collins KWM line (no longer manufactured) would be somewhere in the vicinity of $14,000 in 2007 dollars. When new, Collins gear was the best amateur/professional gear a ham could purchase at $3,500 in 1960's dollars. Hope this helps.

 

[prcguy]

There are good deals on the high end stuff if you search around. I recently got a Harris RF-590A for $900 and an RF-590 for $700. The A is a current radio at over $14k new.
prcguy

 

[Fast1eddie]

Just want to say that I received my item from Radio Mart today as advertised. Packed well, item performs to specs. I'll buy from him again.

 

[zz0468]

I'm curious what you guys bid on. Lots of neat stuff, but very little of what I would call "top of the line". When it comes to HF receivers, I'm a purist, so my bias is showing. That Harris receiver mentioned by prcguy would qualify. 97.6% feedback rating... that's low for the typical ebay seller.

 

[n4voxgill]

well if you want to get into big dollars then try www.torontosurplus.com

 

[Big_Ears]

Watkins Johnson use to manufacture a high-end HF telecommunications receiver around the late 80's-90's. I was told it had the capabilities of digital signal processing and that it could "scan" frequencies in any mode. It's price tag was in the $ 5-10K range and was sold mainly to the military and intelligence sectors.

 

[prcguy]

WJ sold the HF-1000 product line to Ten-Tec, which markets it as the RX-340.
See http://radio.tentec.com/Commercial/RX340
Nice radio but some people complain of harsh recovered audio. Most of the old WJ line was considered very high end along with Harris, Racal, Cubic, TMC, Rohde & Schwarz, Rockwell-Collins, etc. You don't see Yaesu, Kenwood or even Icom listed in the very high end circles and JRC is probably the only Asian receiver that makes the list.
prcguy
QUOTE=Big_Ears]Watkins Johnson use to manufacture a high-end HF telecommunications receiver around the late 80's-90's. I was told it had the capabilities of digital signal processing and that it could "scan" frequencies in any mode. It's price tag was in the $ 5-10K range and was sold mainly to the military and intelligence sectors.[/QUOTE]