Most SWL's would not give the Sears version a second look if they
didn't know it was a rebadged FRG-7. Funny how the name can mean so
much. Yeah, they are fun. Mine had an upgraded filter instaled by
the guy before me. Finding a decent R300 is indeed difficult. Usually
the bandswitch is heading south and reception suffers on selected
bands.

The radio that is getting the most time right now is a Degen DE1103.
What a radio for $65.00


Lucky wrote:
wrote in message
ups.com...
Yes, those older Yaesu's can be a lot of fun. I looked long and
hard
at a used 7700 before deciding on a Kenwood R5000 (new) about 14
years
ago. I owned the Sears version of the FRG-7 for about a year and
enjoyed it a lot. Not as fast as a digital receiver to tune around
in,
but enjoyable and a good performer nontheless.

My favorite of the so-called massproduced pre-digital receivers is
the
Kenwood R-300. Looked like it should have tubes, but it didn't.
The
xtal marker took some getting used to and it drifted some, but it
was a
challenge worth overcoming.


Lucky wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
how can a mass produced commodity be a collectors item ? a
collectors
item should be something that was not produced in large numbers
or
is
old and many are not available any more. the FRG-7 is very
common
as is
the 7700. and they are not old at all.

SX-88, that is an example of a collectors rig.


Not true. A collectors item is anything a collector of those items
thinks it
is. To me, the FRG-7700 is one radio in my collection of radios.
They
may
have been mass produced, but they are over 20 year old and the
supply
is
dwindling every week. To each his own...

Lucky


Hi

Hey I have a mint cond. Sears version FRG-7. Paid $200 for it. It's
over 25
years old but has hardly been used. I bought off this Chinese guy on
Ebay.
He was great and packed it well. He told me before I bought it that
he could
sell it as new if he had the box. He was right.

One thing about the FRG-7 is you can cover the whole band rather
quickly.
Yeah I almost bought the Kenwood 300 but the ones I looked at were
not in
good condition. That radio looks very cool though. Now if you can
find one
of those in perfect shape it would really be a find.

Lucky