Lots of 11M denizens love their various "export" model radios - or to operate amateur radio rigs on the band. I prefer the old-school/vintage - legal - way of doing things, as QRP is more challenging anyway.

One of the CB mags of the day used to run ads for various rigs. The TRS Challenger 1400 was one of them.

I looked for decades (not just years) for one of these. Also got the AM-only version - the 1200. The latter is going to get modded in that the 1st IF filter could be swapped from the OEM 2-pole MCF to a canned 8-pole type, thereby increasing adjacent channel rejection. What's interesting about the 1400 is that the IF filter is a variable-bandwidth type, as is used with the CPI series of radios. Those sets turned in some of the highest adjacent-channel rejection numbers ever recorded, but I don't have any figures for the TRS series available.

The receivers are very sensitive, comparing favorably to my high-end ham rigs.

When I have the 1400 on I'll be QSX on 38LSB.

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