Subject: Yeasu FRG 9600
From: Kingfish
Date: 6/2/2004 4:59 AM Mountain Standard Time
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What would be a fair price to ask for a nice FRG-9600?
I have one that I don't use any more and should let someone else enjoy
it.
Kingfish
$150.00-$200.00 seems to be the going price for an FRG 9600 without the
optional video board. One with the video board installed recently sold for
$250.00 on eBay.
The price of the FRG 9600 has fallen quite a bit in the past few years. I own
two of these receivers and purchased both of them about 4-5 years ago: the
unit with the video board installed cost $375.00, and the unit without the
board cost $250.00.
If you tried to sell an FRG 9600 for those prices nowadays, the reaction you
would get from most scanner buffs is "are you crazy?" The FRG 9600 is fast
becoming obsolete in the age of digital trunked radio signals.
For what it's worth, I use my FRG's mostly for monitoring distant FM broadcast
stations and military aircraft. I find that the receiver has very good to
excellent sensitivity in both frequency ranges. In the VHF/UHF ranges the
sensitivity seems to be about equal to most of my Radio Shack scanners, i.e.
PRO-2006 and PRO-2056. One caveat about the FRG 9600, though: the internal
speaker on some units has a tendency to create feed back inside the metal
cabinet at high volume levels, so an external speaker may be necessary for the
best audio.
73,
David