Went ahead and ordered the 1003 this morning.
Looking forward to it, since the only radio I've been using for several
years
is an analog am/fm sony cassette walkman.
Have gotten real fond of listening at night.
Art Bell comes on too late here, 1am and I get up at 4am.
Had quite a time finding one, there were only 3 left on ebay, price was
high.
Didn't want to fool with the chinese version.
Universal was out for next 2 months.
And most places were at $100 or thereabouts. CC Crane I think wanted $109.
So I'm happy to have found one for $86 shipped.
Most money I spent on a radio ever, but figure it should be enough for
a casual listener and if we get storms, then we don't have to listen to
storm news all the time.

wrote in message
oups.com...
I own 2 of the 1103's, one purchased in Dec 04 and the other about a
month and a half ago. Absolutely no complaints with either of them.
You can buy a better radio, but not at the sub $50 price that the 1103
goes for or anywhere near that. For more info and personal reviews and
accounts you can check the 1103 group on Yahoo groups.

Good Luck

Mark