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Communications Receiver and Radio Scanner News

The latest models in HF (Shortwave) Communication Receivers, Radio Scanners and HF (Shortwave) Portables!


Thankyou to both Petri-Veikko Alajärvi of Finland and Rimantas Pleikys of Lithuania for providing some of the links and information on this page.


Communications Receivers



Alinco has released it's first ever (as far as I know) dedicated Table-Top HF Communications Receiver.
This is welcome news for Shortwave Radio listeners. According to reports, only a few have been produced for the Japanese market. However a larger production run is due in August 2010.
Alinco DX-R8 150 Khz -35 Mhz 600 Alpha Numeric Memories
Alinco DX-R8 Thumbnail Image

Size: 210 Kilobyte

AOR AR-Alpha Professional DSP


AOR AR-ONE


AOR AR-5001 High End Wide Band (40 Khz-3150 Mhz)
AOR AR7070 News

June 2010
In a surprise announcement, AOR has closed its UK offices and handed its selling and servicing of AOR products to Waters and Stanton.

It is unclear what this means for the future AOR AR-7070 receiver which was being designed and was to be manufactured in the UK.

Thanks to Howard Cowan of the United Kingdom for this information



March 2010
Some information has been gained about the design of the AOR AR-7070 from this web site including a photo of some circuitry and the possibility of a 25 Kilohertz wide real time spectrum display.

November 2009

From the now defunct  AOR UK web site comes this news

"Several pre-production units have been built and working, but the internal operational firmware needs to be finalised before we move to production. More details will be available closer to release."


7 May 2009

I've received an e-mail (7 May 2009) from Rimantas Pleikys from Lithuania. He saw what he believed to be, a rough sketch of the front panel of the AOR AR-7070. The info came from this blog http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/gakuji7n4njn/archive/2008/08/24

I've placed the sketch on this page, but as always...

1) This might not be the official design or have anything to do with AOR!

2) Designs do change in manufacturing, due to the availability of parts!

There are no guarantees that this might be the final design!


















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Size: 77 Kilobyte

AOR AR-7070 with DSP (Due Late 2010)


AOR SR-2000A


Icom IC-R75


Icom IC-8500


Icom IC-9500 Professional DSP


Kneisner + Doering KWZ-50 DSP


Palstar R30A


Reuter-Elektronik RDR54

I received an e-mail (10 June 2009) from Rimantas Pleikys from Lithuania with info on this new high end RDR54 Communications Receiver from Germany. Frequency coverage 1 kHz-30 MHz + 50-54 MHz, variable bandwidth 2.5 Hz to 20.44 kHz in 2.5-Hz increments. Web Page and Manual is currently in German.

Please click to enlarge image

Size: 222 Kilobyte
Sienna SF-100 (500 Khz to 30 Mhz)

Sitex Nav-Fax 200


Computer Controlled Receivers

AOR AR-2300 40 Khz-3150 Mhz Computer Controlled Receiver (Link 1)
AOR AR-2300 40 Khz-3150 Mhz Computer Controlled Receiver (Link 2)

AOR SR-2200 VHF/UHF Receiver

Ciaoradio H101 Software Defined Communications Receiver

Cross Country Wireless SDR Radio Receiver (Ham Bands)

Elad FDM77 Software Defined Receiver

Flex-1500 Software Defined Transceiver/Receiver

Flex-3000 Software Defined Transceiver/Receiver

Flex-5000 Software Defined Transceiver/Receiver

Haihua Electronics LWS-01 HF PC Receiver

HPSDR: High Performance Software Defined Radio

Icom IC-R1500/PCR-1500 HF/VHF/UHF/SHF PC Communications Receiver

Icom IC-R2500/PCR-2500 HF/VHF/UHF/SHF PC Communications Receiver

Kneisner + Doering KDG-SR100 Software Defined Transceiver/Receiver

NTI DRB-30 HF Software Defined Communications Receiver

Perseus 10 KHz - 30 MHz Direct Sampling Software Defined Receiver

Raremono USB MW/SW/FM Radio Receiver (Very basic USB receiver)

RF Space SDR-14 HF Software Defined Receiver

Rf Space SDR-IQ™ Software Defined 500 Hz to 30 MHz Receiver

Rf Space SDR-IP Ethernet Communications 0.01 to 32 Mhz Receiver

SDR Wonder Radio 12 Khz-60 Mhz

SRL QuickSilver QS1R VERB Software Defined Receiver
Soft66AD 2.5 Mhz to 70 Mhz Software Defined Receiver

Ten-Tec RX-320D HF Receiver

WiNRADiO AMFE™ Antenna Multiplexer and Frequency Extender

WiNRADiO RLX-800 9 Khz-1800 Mhz Linux Network Radio Receiver (Due late 2010)

WiNRADiO WR-G305e HF/VHF/UHF Software Defined Receiver

WiNRADiO WR-G305i HF/VHF/UHF Software Defined Receiver

WiNRADiO WR-G315e HF/VHF/UHF Software Defined Receiver

WiNRADiO WR-G315i HF/VHF/UHF Software Defined Receiver

WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC "EXCALIBUR" Receiver (9 Khz - 50 Mhz + 50 Mhz real time analyzer)
WiNRADiO WR-G33DDC "EXCALIBUR" Pro Receiver (9 Khz - 50 Mhz + 50 Mhz  real time analyzer)

WiNRADiO WR-G33EM Marine Communications Receiver

WiNRADiO WR-G33WSM Receiver for Audio Engineering Applications

WiNRADiO WR-G39DDC Professional Receiver (20 Khz - 3500 Mhz)

WiNRADiO WR-G39WSBe Sonobuoy Receiver

Portable Shortwave Receivers

Anjan DTS-09 High End Portable LW/MW/SW Receiver

Anjan DTS-10 High End Portable LW/MW/SW Receiver (Link 1)
Anjan DTS-10 High End Portable LW/MW/SW Receiver (Link 2)
Anjan DTS-10 High End Portable LW/MW/SW Receiver (Link 3: Lots of Pictures)

CCRadio-SW with twin coil ferrite AM antenna

Eton E1 XM

Freeplay Summit

Degen DE-1103 Portable Shortwave Receiver

Degen DE-1104 Portable Shortwave Receiver

Degen DE-1106 High End Portable Radio Receiver

Degen DE-1121 Portable Shortwave Receiver with MP3 player/recorder

Degen DE-1122 Dual Conversion LW/MW/SW Portable Receiver & MP3 player/digital recorder

Degen DE-1123 AM/FM/SW Portable Receiver with DSP, MP3 Player/Recorder USB

Degen DE-1125 AM/FM/SW Portable Receiver with DSP, 2 Gig MP3 Player/Recorder USB

Degen DE-15 FM MW SW 2.30-23.00 Mhz, 245 Memories

Grundig Eton Satellit 750 LWMW/SW/AIR Receiver Link 1

Grundig Eton Satellit 750 LW/MW/SW/AIR Receiver Link 2

Grundig Eton Satellit 750 LW/MW/SW/AIR Receiver Link 3

Grundig G3 Voyager LW/MW/SW/VHF AIR Sync 700 Memories

Grundig S450DLX Portable Shortwave Receiver

Himalaya DRM2009 DRM Portable Shortwave Receiver

Kason World Band Receiver (Australian Dealer-aka Redsun RP-2100)

Kchibo KK-D6110 DSP Portable Shortwave Receiver

Kchibo D96L DSP 900 Memories Portable Radio Receiver

Kchibo KK-DRM01 Digital Broadcast/Shortwave Portable Receiver

Kchibo KK-S500 1000 memories portable radio receiver

Kchibo KK-S7600L High End 2000 memories portable radio receiver

Mayah 2010 DRM

Morphy Richards DRM Shortwave Receiver

Redsun RD-1208 Portable Shortwave Receiver

Redsun RP-2100

Redsun RP-3100 SSB AM 1000 Memories Shortwave Receiver (Link 1) (451 Kb jpg) On Hold?

Redsun RP-3100 SSB AM 1000 Memories Shortwave Radio Receiver (Link 2) On Hold?

Sangean ATS-636

Sangean ATS-909X High End Portable Shortwave Receiver (Due Late 2010) (Link1)

Sangean ATS-909X High End Portable Shortwave Receiver (Due Late 2010) (Link 2)
Sangean ATS-909X High End Portable Shortwave Receiver (Due Late 2010) (Link 3)

Sony ICF-SW7600GR

Tecsun BCL-2000

Tecsun BCL-3000

Tecsun BCL-4000

Tecsun Catalogue (Latest 2009 Scanned)

Tecsun DSP-2000 AM/FM DSP Receiver

Tecsun PL-210 PLL Dual Conversion LW,MW, SW, FM, 1700 memories Portable Radio Receiver

Tecsun PL-300WT World Time DSP Portable Receiver

Tecsun PL-310 DSP Portable Receiver

Tecsun PL-360 DSP Portable Receiver with built in MW loop antenna
Tecsun PL-380 DSP Portable Receiver
Tecsun PL-390 Dual Speaker DSP FM / MW / LW / SW (2.3~21.95 MHz) Portable Receiver

Tecsun PL-600 Portable 600 memories Shortwave Receiver

Tecsun S-2000 High End Portable HF Receiver

Uniwave DRM LW/MW/SW Portable Multimedia Receiver

Vega RP-007 Russian Army issue Shortwave Receiver

Professional Communications Receivers

(Note: These receivers are usually made for a specific purpose and specification and have a higher purchase price)

Amesys HFR-30 (198 Kb pdf)

Cubic 3280 (720 Kb pdf)

Grintek Ewation MRR-8000

Hagenuk HF3000 (361 Kb pdf)

Haihua Electronics DS-400

Kozitsky R-397P2-215

Rapidm RM6 (640 Kb pdf)

Rohde & Schwarz EK4100AD (2.75 Mb pdf)

Rohde & Schwarz EM510 (258 Kb pdf)

Rohde & Schwarz ESMD Professional Receiver (9 Khz - 26.5 Ghz)

Sunair RT-8100 SDR (1.2 Mb pdf)

Ten-Tec RX-331

Ten-Tec RX-340

Ten-Tec RX-400

Thales MSN-8100 SDR (530 Kb pdf)

Thales TRC-2556 VLF LF Receiver

Thales TMR-6100 (655 Kb pdf)

WiNRADiO WSS-420 HRPT-CHRPT Weather Satellite System

Radio Scanners (Hand-Held)

Albrecht AE-230H

Albrecht AE86H CB/4m/2m

Alinco DJ-X3

Alinco DJ-X8

Alinco DJ-X11 (Link 1)
Alinco DJ-X11 (Link 2)

Alinco DJ-X30

Alinco DJ-X2000

AOR AR-8200 (Mk III)

AOR AR-Mini B 100 Khz to 1300 Mhz

AOR AR-STV Video Receiver 900 to 2800 Mhz)

Dick Smith Electronics DTS-96 Digital Trunking Radio Scanner

Gre New Range of Radio Scanners (More info)

Gre PSR-700 Analogue Trunking Scanner

Gme Rx1300 150 Khz -1309 Mhz Radio Scanner

Gre New Range of Radio Scanners (Pre-release info)

Icom IC-R20

Icom R-6 Wide Band Portable Radio Scanner

Icom IC-RX7

Intek AR-109 Airband Scanning Receiver

MFJ-8322 Hand Held 1000 Memories Trunking Scanner

Radio Shack Pro-96 Trunking Radio Scanner
Radio Shack Pro-107 iScan Analogue Computer Programmed Trunking Scanner

Radio Shack Pro-528 1000 Channel Triple Trunking Portable Radio Scanner

Uniden BC-346XT Trunking 25-1300 Mhz Analogue Scanner

Uniden Home Patrol
Uniden Home Patrol Twiki

Uniden UBC-73XLT Portable Scanner

Uniden UBC-93XLT Portable Scanner

Uniden Bearcat UBC-130XLT 250 memories (EU Version)

Uniden UBCD-396T Digital Trunking Radio Scanner (Australian Version)

Uniden BCD-396XT Digital Trunking Handheld Radio Scanner with GPS support

Uniden UBC-3300XLT Trunking Radio Scanner

Uniden UBC-3500XLT (EU version)

Uniden USC-230 Radio Scanner (EU version) (in "WAS IST NEU" section)

Yaesu VR-120D

Yaesu VR-160 (0.1 -1299.990 Mhz) Link 1
Yaesu VR-160 (0.1 -1299.990 Mhz) Link 2

Yaesu VR-500

Yupiteru MVT-5500 Portable Scanner

Yupiteru MVT-7500 Portable Scanner

Radio Scanners (Table-Top and Mobile)

AOR AR-8600 Mark 2

Fairhaven RD500

Gre New Range of Radio Scanners (More info)

Gre New Range of Radio Scanners (Pre-release info)

Optoelectronics Video Sweeper Scanner

MFJ-8310 200 Memories Conventional Scanner

Radio Shack Pro-2051 Trunking Radio Scanner

Radio Shack Pro-2055 Trunking Radio Scanner

Radio Shack Pro-2096 Digital Trunking Radio Scanner

Radio Shack Pro-433 1000 Channel Trunk Tracker Radio Scanner

Uniden BC-796D Digital Trunking Radio Scanner

Uniden BC-898T Trunk Tracker

Uniden BCD-996T Digital Trunking Radio Scanner (Australian Version)

Uniden BCD-996XT Digital Trunking Radio Scanner

Uniden UBC-360CLT AM/FM/VHF/UHF Radio Scanner

Uniden UBC-785XLT Trunking Radio Scanner (EU version)

Uniden UBC-800XLT Trunk Tracker (EU version of BCT-15)

Uniden UBCT-8 Trunking Radio Scanner

Uniden UBCT-9 Trunking Radio Scanner

Uniden BCT-15X Trunking Radio Scanner

Uniden BC-355C Analogue Scanner

Yaesu VR-5000


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