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Jay wrote:
Hello all

It has boiled down to one of these 3 radios. The local Radio Shack
carries each of them. I have read many a good thing about the Grundig
Miniworld, but info is hard to find on the two Realistic models.
I my budget is tight, and it looks like analogue is the most
affordable, and compact is what I am leaning towards.
Does anybody have any thoughtsor comparisons?

Thanks, Jay

The Grundig Miniworld is a single-conversion, analog tuned radio. It's
strengths are pocket size, good sensitivity and lack of noise from a
cheap digital synthesizer, since it has none :-) Its selectivity is
poor - both from adjacent channels (the filters are wide) and images
(single-conversion design).

The last two printed catalogs I have from Radio Shack no longer listed the
analog portables, so I can't really say except to surmise they were both
Sangean models rebadged by Radio Shack. It's a good bet they would
out-perform the Mini World 100, though.

Something else to consider: I have too many radios. One that is clearly
superfluous is a Sony ICF-SW11 that a well-meaning relative gave me over
the holidays. I have plenty of more capable digital portables, and it's a
set I will never use. It's brand new, in the original box, unused ... and
would probably out-perform the 3 models you're looking at. I think it went
for about $40 when it was still in production, so if you're interested
feel free to make me an offer before I overcome laziness and put together
an ad for eBay.

I also have an "extra" Kaiwa KA-818, which was also sold by Grundig in
years past. It looks like the Mini World 100 with a digital (analog to
frequency counter) display. Doesn't perform any better, I'm afraid; but
it's a lot easier to tune and I think I paid all of $15 for it.