N8KDV wrote in
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Here's a Sony ICF-6500W receiver up on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...1629&category=
15051

They were a decent enough portable, I had one for about 10 years, I
wore it out I used it so much.

I think I payed $100 for mine on close-out from Universal. As I said,
it was a decent enough portable, but not so sure about the $249.00
price!

That's awfully expensive, but as I recall some recent eBay auctions of
6500Ws went for nearly that much. It must be nostalgia.

That said, I still have mine, bought in the early eighties on close-out for
about $70. It's used infrequently but does have nice audio. I keep it in my
boys' room, hoping to spark a shortwave interest at some point.

Speaking of radios, I noticed that Britain's Prince Philip appears to be a
shortwave fan:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...20/nque220.xml

I'm guessing that this is the Roberts R871, which is in that price range.

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