The special antenna that comes with the Sony ICF-SW07 actually tunes in
synch with the SW tuning (and is amplified). If you haven't used it yet,
then you have yet to see what this unit can really do.

-- Stinger

"Ron Hardin" wrote in message
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Mark S. Holden wrote:

Jenni_is_a_Whore wrote:
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I would still like to know for the reason for this massive discount.
It
doesn't seem to be replicated by other mercahnts. Perhaps somebody at
Amazon made their Irish Coffee just a bit too Irish.

JIAW


I think it was just a case of they had several in the warehouse that
weren't moving and they decided to cut the price and dump them before
year end.

My guess is the SW100s is a better seller because it's smaller, and has
more or less comparable features and performance at about the same
(regular) price.

Mine came in yesterday. I haven't had it long enough to make up my mind
about it but preliminary results lead me to think I'm still going to be
taking my 7030 system on camping trips, and on vacations when I'm
driving or can ship it ahead.

But to be fair, I have been using it in the house, and I haven't hooked
it up to my "Doty style" antenna, so I'm getting RFI from the computer
network and all the other gizmos that led me to put an antenna a couple
hundred feet away from the house.

I don't know but I bet it overloads on a good antenna. The front end
anyway on
my SW100 does.

When it comes with an active antenna, that means it's not really sensitive
enough
on its own, as well.

It is small, and for mid-difficulty signals probably pretty good.
--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.