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Old November 18th 08, 03:58 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default best Radio Shack portable transistor radio?

On Nov 17, 12:20*pm, "Henry Kolesnik"
wrote:
A while back I was told that the Realistic 12-255 or 12-256 were the
best radios they made for AM BCB listening. *But I must have gotten the
model number mixed up or copied wrong. *The one I saw was about the size
of text book. *Anyone have any hints or tips on what it might be? *I
think if I saw a pic I might recognize it
Thanks
Hank


I reallly liked the Realistric TRF 10 that I got in 1965. This ad
shows a claim of 100-mile reception in daylight

http://chowdanet.com/markc/WEB2005A/...tic_10-trf.gif

I remember getting 400-mile daylight reception. OK, I was on a ship
and it was over salt water, but it was 400+ miles at midday.