To view and print these files, you'll need a copy of Adobe's free Acrobat Reader program. Product Review columns and test reports are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. This review first appeared on the Radio Netherlands website.Includes QST issues from Jan 1980 to Sep 2002 When we can acquire a receiver and put it through our laboratory tests, we’ll have more to say about this receiver and its shortwave performance below 30 MHz. The USA magazine “Monitoring Times” reviewed this receiver in December 1996, but the review focused on the VHF and UHF aspects of the unit.

Computer control extends to typically analogue functions such as the volume and squelch modes.Ĭlearly the new ICOM IC-R8500 and this receiver are direct competitors.

There is a 10.7 MHz IF output suitable for feeding a 10 MHz chunk of spectrum to a spectrum analyser. There is a multitude of scanning and searching functions. Frequency readout extends to 1 Hz we would expect discrepancies from unit to unit depending upon manufacturer quality control. Six bandwidths from 3 to 220 kHz are included a 500 Hz CW bandwidth is optional. Promotional literature lists features of all modes (AM, FM, USB, LSB, and CW), five VFOs, and 1000 memory channels within 10 banks of 100 channels. Is this a scanner or a shortwave receiver?Ī new wide-band receiver from AOR was released in late 1996. The Medium Wave Circle and Radio Netherlands has no financial connection with AOR, the manufacturer of this receiver.

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