Drake TR7

Owned for almost 12 years. Possibly, one of the best american transceiver for ages. Got mine as a present and was used from my father EC1CTT. It was a dx machine 10 years ago but compared with any other radios in market now got some disavantages. It´s a real good radio on low bands (40-80-160 meters) possibly the best I´ve ever used on that bands because its Collins filters are really very useful and selectivity is still on top but on the other hand, got a little sensitivity on 10 and 11 meters so it´s not a good radio for our band. Signals are really low compared with my IC751 (with preamplifier off) on 11 and even on 15 meters. Appart of that, after being unused for a couple of years got some dust inside and problem is that all contacts are open so they get rusty soon. Used a contact cleaner and problem was solved for a couple of months...then some contacts were dead and some others didn´t work out well. That´s what TR7 has to be set up on a dry place. It´s very bad touched by smoke so if you´re a smoker I hardly advise you not to buy this transceiver or any other made in the early 70´s due to its open-contacts. Good radio and still usable but forget it for DXing on 11. Gave it a 7!

Added: August 11th 2004
Reviewer: Fernando 30AT239
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