Hi Jim:

I have a SONY ICF SW7600GR and enjoy it. As with most portables, It's
best to use batteries. I use rechargables in mine and they work great
lasting around 30+ of play hours before recharging is necessary.

Some helpful hints: The RF attenuator works on both AM and FM. If you
live in a city, you may need to attenuate the FM to avoid overloading
and unwanted images.

You'll love the sync detect for AM. It allows you to dratically reduce
interference from strong stations when listening to weak ones on a
nearby frequency. For example; if you are trying to listen to a signal
on 1200 KHz and there is an interfereing one on 1210 KHz, switch the
set to lower sideband and turn on the sync detect. The interference
from 1210 KHz virtually vanishes! If there is an interfereing signal on
1190 KHz, switch to upper sideband with sync detect on.

The SONY ICF SW7600GR has pretty good sensitivity on MW, but not
excellent. It's a coat-pocket size set and obviously doesn't sport a
big internal ferrite bar for MW. However, place it in the circumfrence
of a proximate loop and its MW sensitivity becomes supercharged and
will hear just about anything out there!

The SONY ICF SW7600GR does quite well on SW. I use mine with the
optional SONY AN-LP1 amplified SW loop antenna. That combination works
quite well. You can use a long-wire as well.

The audio is good for a radio of its size. But if you want bigger
sound, you can feed it into an amplified speaker system or just listen
through headphones. Speaking of headphones; the FM stereo simply sounds
awesome through good headphones with this receiver. I find that there
is a bit of amplifier hiss heard through good headphones, but most good
headsets have an in-line volume control which one can reduce slightly
to make the hiss unnoticeable.

Hope that helps,

Wayne
jamman wrote:
I have just ordered a Sony 7600gr after having a bad first experience
with another radio that wasn't all that great. I decided on this model
after reading a lot of the industry and consumer reviews, and -- more
importantly -- reading a lot of the suggestions on this message board.
If anyone can help me with a few basic questions, it would be greatly
appreciated!

Is there any difference between using a power cord and using batteries?


In trying to boost reception on my first radio, I relied on a longwire
antenna. Can this be used to boost the AM reception on the 7600gr too?
Or are there better suggestions for an antenna -- if one is even
suggested.

Any quirks that I should be aware of also would be greatly appreciated.

I'm looking forward to getting the 7600gr, so thanx for all the great
information on these boards!

Jim