i use a rat shack dx399(sangean 606) in a dumptruck. its very durable!
it even fell out and got run over in the mud once! it looks a little
rough but still works perfectly. i also use a grundig mini 300 while
working construction. it hangs off the back of my baseball cap in its
little protective cover with the antenna sticking up above my head. that
would work perfectly while riding a bike. battery usage is great! i get
almost 2 weeks on two aa cells. (watch out that you dont poke any eyes
out with the antenna sticking up!)

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www.walgreens.com (Electronics,Radios) If you are going to be
tuning a radio while riding a bicycle,unless you rig a good neckstrap to
the radio,chances are you will drop the radio on the road and it's a
goner.I don't know about the Walgreen's stores in your area,but the
Walgreen's stores in my area almost always has some electronic thingys
on sale and if they have any AM/FM/Shortwave radios on sale,you can buy
one for about one third to about one half price off of the regular store
price.
cuhulin

The SW radio will only be listened to at night while in
the tent.

No listening will be done while riding the bike.

At night in a tent? In that case if you want to spend a little more
money,I suggest a Sony 7600GR Radio and a very good waterproof cover to
keep it dry.
cuhulin

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"Libertad" wrote:

If your seriously considering the SW-100E (E=European version), also
consider the Sony AN-LP1 antenna. This antenna was included with the now
discontinued SW-100S (S=System -N.A. version).

remember this is for a long distance bicycle ride now.

Cant carry everything you know. G

The AN-LP1/2 fold up into the provided flat pouch about 8" square.
Very easy to pack and well worth the money.

FYI: Used SW07 w/box, manual, antenna, $300
http://www.universal-radio.com/alert.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SonyICF-sw100/

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"Libertad" wrote:

If your seriously considering the SW-100E (E=European version), also
consider the Sony AN-LP1 antenna. This antenna was included with the now
discontinued SW-100S (S=System -N.A. version).

remember this is for a long distance bicycle ride now.

Cant carry everything you know. G

Jim wrote:
i use a rat shack dx399(sangean 606) in a dumptruck. its very durable!
it even fell out and got run over in the mud once! it looks a little
rough but still works perfectly. snips

Let's see - got run over in the mud (by the dump truck?), but looks
only a "little " rough? My, you are a charitable fellow! ;-)

Bruce Jensen

Put that radio that got run over by a dump truck on Ripley's Believe It
Or Not. www.ripleys.com and hand me a bottle of Fred Sanford's
Ripple.
cuhulin

Barker wrote:
"MaMaDoG" wrote in message
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I'm riding my bicycle on a long distance bike tour next
summer. Will be camping out along way

What small rugged model SW would you guys advise for
such a trip?

Sony ICF-SW100 or INF-SW07
Both are superb!

The SW100 was my choice for backpacking and camping many years ago. I
was impressed enough to buy another when it got broken.

The smallest and best portable shortwave radios ever made:

Agreed.

The Sony ICF SW-100 is very good but needs the AN-LP1 antenna to perform
well.

Many folk have suggested that Sony's little wire extension aerial,
about 15 feet of wire in a little plastic reel that clips onto the
aerial, gives as good results as AN-LP1 if erected vertically (e.g. up
into a tree), and sometimes better.

For home listening I've strung out a 25 foot nearly vertical wire,
which gives a good improvement over Sony's 15' reel. If reception was
a problem backpacking (which I've never found in the UK -- the fully
extended whip is nearly always good enough, and the reel for difficult
cases), I'd simply consider taking some extra wire along. Very thin
stuff is fine. With some string and a stone you can throw the string
over a branch and pull up a vertical wire.

http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/gadgets/SW100.html

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Chris Malcolm DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

Jim Hackett wrote:

Having both of those (sw-07 sw-100) I wouldn't consider either one "rugged"
by any means.
It wouldn't take much of a drop to rip the folding lid and wires right off
of them...

That's true if operating the SW100 open. But if moving about you can
operate it closed, and it comes with a little pseudo-leather
semi-pouch which closes over the lid snap, which both cushions falls
and stops the lid opening in a fall. The volume control and an earphone
jack are accessible with the pouch thing closed. Pretty robust!

--
Chris Malcolm DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

wrote:

At night in a tent? In that case if you want to spend a little more
money,I suggest a Sony 7600GR Radio and a very good waterproof cover to
keep it dry.

The performance of the SW100 and 7600GR are pretty much the same,
except that the SW100 is much smaller and has a squeakier speaker. The
SW100 os basically a miniaturised 7600. But on headphones they sound
the same (both extremely good). A ngelcted point of these radios is
that they not only have a phone socket, they have a line out socket,
and can deliver superb audio quality of FM to both earphones and an
external hifi.

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Chris Malcolm DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]