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Old January 9th 08, 03:47 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
D Peter Maus D Peter Maus is offline
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Default Receiver News: Grundig Satellite 750

Unrevealed Source wrote:
You must have an early version. The later revisions were much better, and a
damn fine radio.



There was only one change to Sat 800, and that was the installation
of a shaft bearing on the tuning mechanism.

There has been a lot of noise swirling around this radio since its
announcement. One was the existence of three 'generations.' This
particular bit of myth was created by a certain eBay seller looking to
spike his profits on refurbed units he acquired, hoping to distinguish
them from untweaked production runs. It's entirely a marketing trick.
Even Lextronix reps, when asked directly, openly admitted that there was
only one change to Sat 800. And that they adopted the 'Third Generation"
tag to spike their own flagging sales, because there had been so much
bad breath about this radio.

There were no revisions of Sat 800. One version, one generation.

Quality control improved over its production cycle, but it was there
were no differences between productions samples except the shaft bearing.








"Simon Mason" wrote in message
. uk...
The Sat 800 was the biggest pile of junk I've ever bought.