Icom R9000 v Harris 590 v WJ 8711 v Racal 6790 on Wellbrook antenna
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Radio Saudi 15.380 on 4 of my favorite radios all on a Wellbrook antenna coming through a Stridsberg MCA 104M multicoupler. Received in Dallas, TX at 07:00 / 12:00 GMT
Beautiful Dx radio shack.Dx dream.Wellbrook loop antenna!Well done.I'm happy for the people,with good hobbies,too.E.
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I watched the video three times, but I could not determine the best device. All are great! 73!
I agree! Thanks for watching
Good Job ! Great selection of Receivers.. I have the Racal too..plus it's internal preamp and an outboard tracking preselector which really transforms the radio in my opinion.
Nice!
PPS. Wow, watching the video again I just noticed what I'm sure was a Sony ICF Pro 80. What a great bit of kit for the time period I had one and it even had a preamplifier on the rubber duck type antenna. I wish I still had mine as it was fantastic for picking up airband and vhf marine band signals
You have a sharp eye! I love that Sony but the internals are very fragile, the caps go bad and the fancy switches eat themselves to failure. It is a very cool design though
Just bought a Stridesberg splitter. Looking forward to using it.
You will love it!
Brilliant shack, each receiver is a grail device so a very interesting and enjoyable comparison. I think the Harris was vying with the WJ in signal quality although the Racal was very quiet through the dsp speaker. Interesting to see 👀 an R9000 too as it must be one of the rarest and with such a wide frequency range it was doing a great job on the shortwave bands. I would be interested to see the 9000 covering the 118-137 a.m. airband and above, also a shoot-out between all of the receivers on a good strong medium wave station to compare the audio through the different I.F. filters and the difference between the models with synchronous a.m. to those without although I think only the WJ has S.A.M but very enjoyable video, thanks for the upload.
Thanks Shaun. I will see about a 9000 video as I haven’t done a dedicated one yet. I did do a whole vid about sync as a listening enhancement, you may enjoy it. Or disagree vehemently as some did…let me know what you think.
@@dieselten01 I'll definitely want to have a look at that. Thanks
P.S. a great choice of loop antenna 📡 👌 I bought the ALA 1530 from Andy Ilkin just after they had come onto the market here in the UK and when I first turned my AOR 7030+3 Aniversary Edition on connected to it indoors I was amazed by the quietness of it and the strength of the nulls so its a great reference when doing these types of comparisons between high end communications receivers.
You have some excellent equipment. I found the DSP on my Ten Tec Omni 6+ very good....
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Some lovely receivers you have there Sir
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Nice test, To me, it sounded like the WJ was 1st place followed by the Harris, slightly, then the Icom and Racal seemed very close. I have the Racal 6790 and the Harris 590 NON A. I keep looking for a nice WJ which is working OK. I restore R390 series receivers including the R 389, 390 , 390A, 391 and 392, In my experience on weak signals, wither the 390 or 390A out preform my Racal and Harris by a fair margin. They are more of a pain to tune than the newer rx's but they have a very low noise floor, decent selectivity, good filter selection and fair to OK audio, The R390 non A sounds better. However, I am a BIG fan of the Hammarlund HC10 product detectors which give, among many other option, a second audio path. That path was better than the stock R 390 and a good but better than the R390A.
73 Glenn WA4AOS DSM Labs
Thanks Glenn. The WJ sounds even better when it is on the same BHI DSP speaker as the 6790
Excellent video. Thanks for posting
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Very good receivers, im have a Harris RF 590, and others tube receivers. 73 to PY2LSB
Ricardo Bedendo thank you. I watched your video and I love the Icom 8500, I will probably get one some day.
Fantastic setup
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Great Receiver - Collection, Sir!
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Great comparison - thanks for posting - I have a few different radios and looking to add a Harris 590 soon : )
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hi from turkey.Nice video,good comparison.thanks!
Do you have a shot of the rear panel of the Racal 6790? Want to know how you plugged in the speaker.
Very nice radios!
chisolm5 thank you
Nice set up. So what is your opinion? How would you rank these receivers in terms of performance and usability?
Thanks for your comments. All of these radios are super sensitive, the WJ has a little better selectivity but the others have sufficient selectivity for anything I have ever tried to hear. The only clear advantage in usability goes to the Icom due to the spectrum scope. That scope makes it easy to find signals that you might have easily skipped over without the scope.
Great copy great radio! 73s
Thank you!
Beautiful set of radios is the wellbrook a mag loop?
Thank you. Yes it is a mag loop 1530
Your location maybe Dallas, but your accent says Buffalo/Rochester/Chicago! Am I close? Thanks for this great comparison among these big-league receivers, dieselten01!!
Chicago! South side! Nice catch.
Can you run a rest between the WJ 8711 and the RX340?
I just did about a week ago. Look at my videos list on my homepage. Just click my name to go to my homepage. It is called weak signal ops on premium receivers
Wow.
I didn't know Harris made SW receivers! An older model there?
Yes Harris made a series of hi end receivers that were too expensive for wide spread commercial use. I have a 505A from the early 1970’s and a 590 from around 2000. I have a dedicated video on the 505A it is a really cool receiver. They also made a 550 that I would love to get
@@dieselten01 Wauw!! That's Hawaiian for "Wow!" Lol.
If you could only keep one which would it be?
g13flat I would keep the WJ8711 because of the Sync AM and the multiple band widths and the pre amp. But it would be like picking which of my children too keep. None of them suck, they are all great. Having the scope like on the 9000 is hard to live without after you use it for a while.
What make and model of DSP speaker is that?
It is made by BHI in England. They are sold in the US by HRO. This is the largest one, they also have a medium and a small.
@@dieselten01 Thanks! They’re not cheap but apparently pretty effective.
@@Technical_Audio yes. They actually work better than the NR feature on some new radios, and the large speaker has an amplifier