RadioBanter - View Single Post - Anyone using RS 12-150 AM/FM/WX radio?

[email protected] · November 16th 06, 08:46 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:
jamman wrote:
I posted earlier after buying the Radio Shack 12-150 ... and I'll be
the first to admit that this radio was my first foray into DX ... but
I've been disappointed in the radio overall. It has a simplistic
attractiveness to it, and it has PLL, but the knobs are real cheap
plastic (and will probably have a short lifespan!) and the reception
hasn't been as great as I'd hoped for a radio that was boasted as being
"extreme range." The SW capabilities are very weak, but that might be
my inexperience.

Don't think the 12-150 covers shortwave. Probably accounts for it's
poor performance on those bands....!!

The 12-150 is just a repackaged SRIII - I guess, we live in a
throw-away society ! Most receivers these days are junk, and made in
China ! Bring back the RS DX-440 and Sony ICF-2010 ! The S50 is total
garbage - take off the back, and see that it is mostly-hollow inside
and the whole receiver is a cheap low-grade plastic ! When I opened, my
now returned to RS S350, some little washers fell out and I could not
figure where they went - some poor suck probably has that radio now !
The S350's electronics are 1960's grade.