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Sanjaya wrote:
"Jim Hackett" wrote...
Funny though, I have close to 100 different portables (really need to count
them) and many are less than what I had hoped for. I have NEVER considered
selling any of them, so far. I did give a Bell & Howell away to someone on
the group for the cost of shipping though. Good or bad, they are mine.
Kinda like children, huh?

Yep : )
I want to adopt a Tecsun PL-550 next

Frankly, I don't see the attraction of this radio over, say, the Degen
1101 or 1102 ... except for size of speaker. In real-world use, certainly
it isn't going to be the extra memory slots that the Tecsun has which will
make the difference.

I'm a bit puzzled by some of the new Tecsun radios, and especially how
Eton has chosen which models as replacements for former offerings. For
instance, they sold the PL-707A, a dual-conversion set with weird tuning
controls, as one of the eTraveller models. Now they are carrying the PL-230
as the Yacht Boy 550 ... which is a _single_ conversion set ... a fact
they surely don't advertise. I don't see many user reports on this set,
apart from that one glowing review on RadioIntel, but there is a Yahoo
forum devoted to its twin-with-one-less-AA-cell, the PL-200. What sticks
in my mind from the few discussions there is poor battery life. Maybe the
PL-230 does better with an additional AA cell powering it.

I see no in-depth coverage of the brand new PL-550 so far .. .I'm
wondering if it's single-conversion as well ... as it seems to be
basically a big version of the PL-200 with an antenna trimmer. Does anyone
know otherwise?