That's one of the things I also like about analog radios. The batteries last
such a long time. I never really thought of this as a problem with the two
Sony digitals I had, because I live in a region that had never had a
technological or natural catastrophe of any kind in my lifetime. But then,
we were without power for 5 days during the big ice storm of Jan 1998 (right
in the city too), and then again this past summer, we were without power
almost 24 hours. 24 hours wasn't too bad, but man, it wasn't easy to find a
store with batteries in stock during that ice storm. I think that's when my
then love affair with things digital began to wane

About the drifting. It drifts a little bit on SW, and the digital frequency
readout seems very precise in showing it, but, in my experience, not that
much for analog tuning. I don't personally find it a problem. I've so far
only used mine on batteries. I haven't tried the AC adaptor.

Pierre


"Corbin Ray" wrote in message
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I took my BCL 2000 outside and listened for a couple of hours today. It's
such a sweet radio, but most of the time, there's too much RF noise in my
house to get much use out of its sensitivity. I mainly use it to listen to
AM talk or maybe a ballgame or maybe an oldies station on FM. Dxing isn't
possible inside our house right now. We have a cable modem and four
computers all networked with WI-FI. The radio noise is unbearable with
everything going at once.

One thing I noticed today about my 2000, the radio's battery indicator is
one step below full. I got my radio in Feb 2003. On the day I got it, I
bought some cheap Panasonic alkalines (4/$2) to put in it. If the radio
had
been a dud, I didn't want to waste money on good batteries. But, now it's
been 13 months, and those cheap batteries are still going (sorry Eveready)
strong.

Oh, to be fair and balanced, there is one thing I wish I could change
about
this radio that really drives me crazy. The fine tuning mechanism is ok on
MW and FM, but on shortwave, especially over 15 MHz, it's incredibly tough
to fine tune those signals.