I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR. They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

Thanks,
Fran McHugh
Winslow, AZ

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

mcqz wrote:

I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR. They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

www.universal-radio.com/

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

Save your money shortwave is dead!
dxAce wrote:
mcqz wrote:

I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR. They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

www.universal-radio.com/

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

mcqz wrote:
I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR. They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

Thanks,
Fran McHugh
Winslow, AZ

- check this out . . .

http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...able/0101.html

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

I saw the Eton E1 when I was perusing their site. It isn't quite as
portable as I'd like and we already have XM radio on our motorcycles. With
the story Satellite Radio's huge financial losses, it may not be a long
time phenom anyway...

I have a Radio Shack communications receiver in the repair shop in Tucson -
I haven't been able to talk to them recently which has me somewhat
concerned - but I'm really interested in something made for stowing away and
quick setup. We have a stowaway telescope to take with us when we go
camping and the two voyeuristic "activities" seem to complement each other
very well.

The Kaito's are inexpensive, but the Grundig and Sony seem to have the best
reputations followed closely by the Sangean line.

I know that SW broadcasting is way down and ham radio is diving in the face
of the internet as well, but I still enjoy the SW experience.

Thanks,
fran

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mcqz wrote:
I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well
as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR.
They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

Thanks,
Fran McHugh
Winslow, AZ

- check this out . . .

http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...able/0101.html

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

mcqz wrote:
I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR. They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

Thanks,
Fran McHugh
Winslow, AZ

- check this out . . .

http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...able/0101.html

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

mcqz wrote:
I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR. They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

Thanks,
Fran McHugh
Winslow, AZ

Get the Sony.

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

Buy a Sony 7600GR Radio and be happy.
cuhulin
.................................................. ...........
Somebody ought to come up with a software program that looks like those
strumming strings at the start of The Third Man movie (which started on
tv about twenty five minutes ago.When I was in the Army at Fort
Hood,Texas,one evening I saw a pretty girl that worked behind a counter
in a down town Killeen cafe.I put some coins in that thingy and I
selected The Third Man theme song on the jukebox.She said,Who picked
that Song? I didn't say anything to that dummy) and a keyboard can be
used to play those strings,with audio,of course.
.................................................. ............

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

In article ,
"mcqz" wrote:

I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR. They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

Buy the Sony.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Stuck on a Desert Island 'portable' AM/FM Shortwave Radio - My Choice Is . . .
 

MCQZ,

Stuck on a Desert Island 'portable' AM/FM Shortwave Radio ?
- - - My Choice Is . . . the Sony ICF-SW7600GR 'portable'
AM/FM Shortwave Radio.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...0edf2c2feb7923

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...acbe683366a500


* The Sony ICF-SW7600GR 'portable' AM/FM Shortwave Radio
for the Price is a Better Radio.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...86e2c6735c3459

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...f28501c5e834e7


* the Sony ICF-SW7600GR 'portable' AM/FM Shortwave Radio
has more Good Features then any other Radio in it's Price Range.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...d078c37631cae7

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...c4c12c1284c635


Plus - Consider the Sony AN-LP1 Active Shortwave Loop Antenna
to use with the Sony ICF-SW7600GR for a great Travel Radio Combo.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...71f5107eef0b02
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...ac24735bdffee3



sony no boloney ~ RHF

Fran:
I own an SW7600GR and I really like it. I have handled a G4000A in a store and I didn't like the feel of the keypad.

Here is a classic side-by-side radio review from radiointel.com, which covers the YB400PE (earlier version of the G4000A), ATS-909, and SW7600G (earlier version of the SW7600GR):

http://www.radiointel.com/portwars.htm

Some of the points mentioned in the review:
* SSB reception on the YB400PE is distorted
* SW7600G/SW7600GR features synchronous detection, which is a feature that reduces signal fading
* SW7600G takes 4 AA batteries; YB400PE takes 6 AA batteries
* YB400PE supposedly is better for FM reception

The Eton E5 is another radio in that price class, and is one of the newest products available. It is based on the electronics in the Degen/Kaito 1103 but with a much better user interface. I have one of these as well, and I really like it (for its size, audio quality, user interface, shortwave sensitivity), but it seems to use up my rechargeable batteries a lot quicker than the SW7600GR.

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

Buy the Sony 7600GR (best in class by far).

"mcqz" wrote in message
...
I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well
as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR.
They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

Thanks,
Fran McHugh
Winslow, AZ

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

"weatherall" wrote

Here is a classic side-by-side radio review from radiointel.com

radiointel is full of sheisse

I need help making a choice (re-post)
 

SeeingEyeDog wrote:
"weatherall" wrote

Here is a classic side-by-side radio review from radiointel.com

radiointel is full of sheisse

I find radiointel.com to be hit or miss. I've read some great reviews
there with extremely helpful information. At other times, I'd be
willing to swear that money had changed hands. I think it's worth
reading but, as always, a degree of caution is in order.

Thanks to all, even the somewhat offbeat/offtopic/justplain off
 

I took the info and suggestions and looked around a little more and a little
more deeply and I've ordered the Sony.
Thanks.


"mcqz" wrote in message
...
I'm considering 2 different shortwave receivers and would appreciate the
benefit of your experience. I want to be able to copy SSB and CW as well as
general radio, so that limits the market.

The 2 I'm considering are the Eton/Grundig 4000A and the Sony 7600GR. They
appear to be pretty much equivalent in features. What would be your
preference? Or is there something else that's better in the same
portable/feature/price range?

Thanks,
Fran McHugh
Winslow, AZ

Thanks to all, even the somewhat offbeat/offtopic/justplain off
 

You might be interested in ordering that Sony ANPL whatever it is
antenna too.Joe might be along sooner or later to explain about that,or
somebody else might.

y'all know what a Sooner Dog is?
cuhulin

Thanks to all, even the somewhat offbeat/offtopic/justplain off
 

I have no idea what an ANPL antenna is.
I seem to recall that Sooners are from Oklahoma, but I'd bet that there is
no connection to the Sooner Dog, so I'll bite - No, what is a Sooner Dog?
fran

wrote in message
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You might be interested in ordering that Sony ANPL whatever it is
antenna too.Joe might be along sooner or later to explain about that,or
somebody else might.

y'all know what a Sooner Dog is?
cuhulin