From: "R. Ton" 
Subject: RE: [drakelist] Expensive R-4C


"R. Ton"  made an utterence to the drakelist gang
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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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> [mailto:owner-drakelist{at}www.zerobeat.net]On Behalf Of Jason Buchanan
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 7:08 PM
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> Subject: [drakelist] Expensive R-4C
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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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