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June 6th 04, 03:13 PM
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Subject: Yeasu FRG 9600
From: Kingfish Date: 6/2/2004 4:59 AM Mountain Standard Time Message-id: What would be a fair price to ask for a nice FRG-9600? I have one that I don't use any more and should let someone else enjoy it. Kingfish $150.00-$200.00 seems to be the going price for an FRG 9600 without the optional video board. One with the video board installed recently sold for $250.00 on eBay. The price of the FRG 9600 has fallen quite a bit in the past few years. I own two of these receivers and purchased both of them about 4-5 years ago: the unit with the video board installed cost $375.00, and the unit without the board cost $250.00. If you tried to sell an FRG 9600 for those prices nowadays, the reaction you would get from most scanner buffs is "are you crazy?" The FRG 9600 is fast becoming obsolete in the age of digital trunked radio signals. For what it's worth, I use my FRG's mostly for monitoring distant FM broadcast stations and military aircraft. I find that the receiver has very good to excellent sensitivity in both frequency ranges. In the VHF/UHF ranges the sensitivity seems to be about equal to most of my Radio Shack scanners, i.e. PRO-2006 and PRO-2056. One caveat about the FRG 9600, though: the internal speaker on some units has a tendency to create feed back inside the metal cabinet at high volume levels, so an external speaker may be necessary for the best audio. 73, David |
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