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My SWL station
 Receiver: Grundig satellit 800 A very good sounding short-wave receiver, on this one the synchronous detection really works and vastly improve short-wave reception under bad or severe reception conditions, as the FM part is also very good, this is my kitchen receiver.
Receiver: KENWOOD RZ-1 KENWOOD  ,no particular remarks on this one, quite good on almost all bands. Have to have it for personal reasons but I don’t use it at all.
Receiver: Lowe HF-225, I add this good receiver for some month, nice filter, nice sounding but even with the remote control I add the too few memory make it not too keep.
 Wide band receiver: AOR-5000a AOR , to my opinion an incredible wide band receiver. Good from VLF to 30MHz and extremely good from 30MHz to 3000MHZ, if you can get one in good shape at a reasonable price (look on ebay) buy it as you won’t be disapointed.
Wide band portable receiver: UBC3500XLT Uniden , fast and good handled wide receiver, perfect for on the go.
Wide band receiver: Fun dongle pro +, Waouh, if you take your laptop with you during holidays, don’t forget to take your FDP+ with, you only then need some antennas to listen to everything you can imagine. Add a free virtual cable in your PC and let run your favorite decoding software and listening same time for instance. At 180€ not very cheap but the sky is the limit .
Receiver: PL-660 TECSUN , my present number 1 traveling radio receiver. Qualities and price match perfectly.
Receiver: ATS-909 SANGEAN , was my favorite traveling receiver, still have it but now use Tecsun PL-660 with it synchronous reception.
Antenna AN-1: SONY ,used to use it, but not anymore, the AOR LA320 is by far better but also too expensive.
Antenna: PA0RDT mini-whip , good tiny antenna, very good prestation regarding the price.
Antenna: HDLA Active Wideband Loop Antenna , a very good magnetique loop.
Antenna: LZ1AQ magnetic loop , presently my favorite LF/HF RX antenna.
Antenna FRA 7700: YAESU , have it in my museum.
Antenna: AOR LA320 AOR , a real good one, only too pricey, don’t have the chance to test the several successors but knowing AOR I’m quite sure there as good or even better. I make a modification on mine to use 12 volt from power supply and save battery, no problem as there is plenty of room in the case to play. I also make some ferrite elements to match my wish, you can read more informations about it in my antennas’ projects sections.
Antenna: AN-200 TECSUN , can improve a lot medium-wave reception. More about this one at the antennas’ projects section.
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necessary as I got after all my adjustement a frequency stability from 0.4 ppm (172Hz) after 2 hours, better than the CR-282... BUT, the 706 as another problem, not only mine but all 706, meaning it can get hot very hot and it does even in RX mode, affecting long term stability. Fortunately there is a quite simple cure and I made it following the tip from 
Rig: KENWOOD TS-850S 
Tuner 3KW: AA&A LTD (factory sk) beautiful piece of work
Coax switch: AMERITRON RCS-8V 
Digital interface: DigitalMaster DataLink and many other one 
DSP: TIMEWAWE DSP-59+ (momentary not in use) 
Antenna rotor: YAESU G-600RC 
MFJ-206: 
