"Gary" wrote in message
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No where did I say how many hours I get with batteries - I merely said
the set eats them up quickly. I get at least 20 hours on batteries
which, to me, is a waste of money.

One expects such a large radio with so much energy-intensive circuitry to
suck down the batteries.. most boom-boxes have atrociously short battery
life. I find the Grundig YB-400 to be especially bad on batteries.. even if
you don't use the radio, the batteries will die within a couple weeks or
so.. and if you do use it, you get far less than 20 hours (of course, those
are AA, and not D size.. )