[BC] Sangean HDT-1

[tpt at literock93r.com]

Have two Inovonics composite receivers on translators, one older  
model, one new.
Very satisfied with them. Have a Dayton composite receiver (two of  
them, in fact)--not happy with this unit. Cheap, but you don't get  
what you pay for. Junky one-chip receiver, no adjustment for composite  
output level, receiver overloaded at one translator site.  Ended up  
using one as an air monitor receiver, and sent the Inovonics out for  
that translator.  Got the other to work on another translator, but  
with everything wide open just enough level to drive an MS-15 exciter.

In the past, used a Pioneer hi-fi receiver for a translator by pulling  
off the composite signal at the detector, and using an IC amp to get  
enough gain to drive an exciter.  Worked, not all that well because of  
intermod at the site on receive, but it did work.  However, we had a  
schematic for the receiver, and this late 70's Hi-Fi receiver had  
discrete components in the IF chain, not a single chip design  
impervious to tweaking.

I would recommend sticking with the Inovonics, or possibly the Fanfare.