{"id":52877,"date":"2022-05-29T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52877"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:15:07","slug":"matts-rooftop-receiver-shootout-round-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/matts-rooftop-receiver-shootout-round-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt’s Rooftop Receiver Shootout: Round Two!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Matt Blaze<\/a>, for the following guest post:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Matt’s Rooftop Receiver Shootout, Round Two.<\/h1>\n

by Matt Blaze<\/strong><\/p>\n

You may recall that back in April, I dragged eight of my favorite receivers up to the roof, hooked them up to a portable antenna, and compared their abilities to demodulate various signals at the same time<\/a>. For the most part, the similarities between radios were more striking than their differences. I hinted that there’d be a second installment to come, including more receivers and more challenging signals, to further expose and highlight the practical real-world performance differences between the radios we use.<\/p>\n

So, as promised, here we are with Round Two of my Rooftop Receiver Shootout.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This time around, I used approximately the same setup, but with a total of fifteen different radios. And once again, I took advantage of nice weather and brought a multitude of receivers, recording gear, cables, and an antenna up to my roof to listen to and record shortwave signals under the open sky.<\/p>\n

Our fifteen receivers included everything from “dream radios” from the 1980’s to current-production desktop models to less expensive modern portables to high-performance bench-top lab measurement gear. I tried to curate samples of a wide range of radios you may be familiar with as well as some you probably aren’t.<\/p>\n

The lineup consisted of:<\/h2>\n