From: Eric Webner 
Subject: RE: [drakelist] Expensive R-4C


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Agreed. Without getting into too much technical speak, the R-4C lends
itself to becoming a top-notch "competition grade" receiver. With
the proper roofing filter and the mixer mods, etc., this rig will hear
stuff that many modern rigs won't. The dynamic range is even up there with
the Yaesu FT-1000 series.
 
A couple weeks ago, a completely "hot-rod" R-4C went for $1075.
The cost of the mods was advertised as being over $800.
 
73,
 
Eric KA8FAN

"R. Ton"  wrote:

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My guess: Any R4C selling at that price has all the Sherwood mods.
That is, it's a modified receiver and can be expected to perform
better than an original R4C and is in perfect condition today. These
receivers command a premium. I saw one sell for just under a grand
a few weeks ago on eBay.

It's not so much that the R4C is a lot better than the B, but that these
mods only apply to the C receiver, and that the receiver has recently
been tuned by an expert. I'm not seeing these prices on garden variety
R4C's.

73, Rob (KFØRT)

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> Jason Buchanan made an utterence to the drakelist gang
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> I noticed that some R-4C rigs are selling for over $500, most over
> $800... That's a lot of money... can someone explain why so much? I
> have an R-4B/T-4XB pair that work well but I don't know if i'd pay $500
> for both of them. Nothing against them, they were the first ham rigs I
> ever had, first rigs I ever used and have sent a fair bit of CW since I
> got my ham ticket - a lot of AM also but that was years ago. But what
> piece of the puzzle am I missing here - why the R-4C is so expensive
> nowadays? Is it that much better than the R-4B?
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> 73 Jason N1SU
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Agreed. Without getting into too much technical speak, the R-4C
lends itself to becoming a top-notch "competition grade"
receiver. With the proper roofing filter and the mixer mods, etc., this rig
will hear stuff that many modern rigs won't. The dynamic range is even up
there with the Yaesu FT-1000 series.
 
A couple weeks ago, a completely "hot-rod" R-4C went
for $1075. The cost of the mods was advertised as being over
$800.
 

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