It's brand new at Radio Shack. Long distance digital with memory
presets for $49.99. Gets 100 hours on 6 D cells or plug it in.
Connections for external antennas. George (MN)

wrote:
It's brand new at Radio Shack. Long distance digital with memory
presets for $49.99. Gets 100 hours on 6 D cells or plug it in.
Connections for external antennas. George (MN)

If you check the weight, it is only one pound and the same size as the
Grundig S350 - that make me very suspicious of the quality. My little
RS radio, about the size of the Sony 7600GR, weighs 15 ounces.

I am going to get one of these on Monday. I will post my review as
soon as I have had an opportunity to use it. I was excited to find
this thread as, other than the RadioShack webite itself, I haven't been
able to find any info on this radio at all. I am in a rural location
and am hoping that this unit will be decent for DXing.

I saw this today at a local RS. It's quite a big radio, with handles.
It has two filters on AM (wide/narrow), and connections for an external
AM antenna, and FM antennas (both 75 and 300 ohms). The user manual is
nothing more than a large sheet of paper in English and Spanish, with
almost nothing useful on it by way of real specs (sensitivity,
selectivity, ...) ...

Shepherd wrote:
I am going to get one of these on Monday. I will post my review as
soon as I have had an opportunity to use it. I was excited to find
this thread as, other than the RadioShack webite itself, I haven't been
able to find any info on this radio at all. I am in a rural location
and am hoping that this unit will be decent for DXing.

The first review:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6263

Turns out my local store didnn't have one, so I couldn't check it out
this weekend. It tunes MW in 10 kHz steps, and with a button instead
of a knob? Maybe its good that they didn't have one since I would have
been very disappointed by that. Please post a review when you get one
that works and compare it to other MW "DX" portables, if you could.

RobnzBoy wrote:
The first review:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6263

The tuning knob is the large black knob with the red mark at the 12:00
position. The knob doesn't turn all the way around, though. It just
moves from 12:00 to 10:00 to go down and 12:00 to 2:00 to go up.
Here's a link to a picture of the radio:
http://tinyurl.com/y8v9vw

RobnzBoy ) writes:
The tuning knob is the large black knob with the red mark at the 12:00
position. The knob doesn't turn all the way around, though. It just
moves from 12:00 to 10:00 to go down and 12:00 to 2:00 to go up.
Here's a link to a picture of the radio:
http://tinyurl.com/y8v9vw

So it's like they have on at least some car radios (I have no idea
how common the scheme is). It's the equivalent of an UP and DOWN
button on some radios, but in the form of knob on a shaft.

Michael

RobnzBoy wrote:
The first review:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6263
How did it sound compared to the Grundig S350? What size speaker did it
have?

The 12-150 has more bass than the S350 but less treble. I don't know
what size speaker it had.

Sound quality is very subjective. I recommend that you take your
favorite radio to a Radio Shack and try them together to see which you
like better. Or better yet, take them both to the place (home, work,
etc) where you would be using it most.