NASWA Journal Columns · 1998 · July

Equipment Reviews, July 1998

Last Updated on October 13, 2005 by Ralph Brandi

The Lowe HF-150E Communications Receiver

Since its introduction in 1992, the Lowe HF-150 has won kudos for its small size, easy operation and excellent sound. It offers good performance for program listening and reasonable DXing capability. Although it has only two IF bandwidths, the selectable sideband synchronous detector can be quite effective in rejecting interference. When equipped with internal batteries and an accessory whip antenna it is at least transportable, if not the equivalent of a true portable. In the past, it has been fairly priced and offered good value.

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Listener’s Library, July 1998

Last Updated on October 13, 2005 by Ralph Brandi

This month’s column amounts to a gimme for this editor. A whole ton of stuff has come in via the Internet addressed to this column. In order to keep things at least slightly timely, I’ll give it to you all in one bunch and pick things up again with traditional reviews in the next issue.

First and somewhat sadly, this comes from a British mailing list from Andy Sennitt:

As many of you know, I resigned as editor of the World Radio TV Handbook at the end of last year. The new editor is David Bobbett, and the contact information is now as follows:

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