wrote:

Collectors have a whole different set of reasons for buying a radio
than users. Compare the price for that radio with the $600.00 for an
FRG-7, $800.00 for a Sony 6800, $3,000 for a SonyCRF320 or $800.00 for
a Zenith TO. Prices no user would contemplate, but several collectors
would not blink twice at.

The Sony you mentioned was one of many luggable radios in it's time.
It probably priced out lower than but was meant to compete as a
reasonably priced alternative to the Panasonic Rf-5000a, Zenith TO,
Nordmende & Grundig offerings. All were reasonable performing radios
in their time with notably pleasant audio - much mellower than anything
found today. In all cases time will have taken a toll on their
electronics and there's a good chance controls will be noisy, dial
accuracy will be frustrating, plastic started to fade, etc. For my
purposes the Sony would be fun to use for a while, but that's about it.
That there have been 32 bids to date tells me there's more than one
collector that have a different view.


wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...5895 535&rd=1


Don't forget the GE World Monitor, another competitor in the TO type
radio derby of the 60s. I have an early version of the World Monitor, a
P990C that my grandfather bought new in 1964. He bought it for the FM
band, this at a time when most small transistor radios were MW only. He
paid $100 for it, which was a lot of money in 1964. It still works well,
and has the original AC adaptor (he used it in his auto repair shop). I
could probably get $800 for it on ebay, not that I would risk the wrath
of my grandfather by doing so.

Note that the seller has amended his auction to argue that the Sony is
worth $400. He originally put it up for $19.95.


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