On Feb 27, 8:36 pm, wrote:
On Feb 26, 11:57 pm, "Sky Captain" wrote:

Has anyone tried this new product? I saw it tonight selling for
$49.95 at a local RS store here in Virginia . About the same size as
the GE SR series, the Extreme Long Range radio features digital LED
frequency display and direct entry. Build quality appears to be
excellent. BTW, my Sony 7600 GR blows away my SR III as an AM BCB dx
receiver.

I first mentioned the RS portable here & reports were not too good.

I guess if you wanted something that would blow away your 7600GR (and
SRIII) for AM BCB DX you might need to invest $125 in the Kaito
KA-2100. One DXer (in S Afr I think) said it gets AM BCB stations
thousands of miles away with the built-in antenna. Full sized portable
with long ferrite rod & big speaker, PLL synthesizer tunes in 1 kHz
steps, bass & treble controls, narrow selectivity 4.25 kHz.

The FM tunes in 10 kHz steps & is said to not overload on FM with IF
rejection of over 100dB. Has maybe around 20 db adjacent channel
selectivity on FM, so it beats the SRIII & 7600GR there, too. But the
SW has some problems with mixing products, correctable with purchase
of tuned antenna or antenna tuner.

I don't have one, though, as my Eton E1 seems the ultimate & has got
me AM BCB DX from Europe, Africa & Middle East, using it with a loop
antenna. But it is $500 new and about $350 used. 73, George S.,
MN

George,
Thanks for sharing some interesting info about the KA-2100 and E1. I
understand Eton plans to release the Grundig G1, which is an E1 minus
the XM, later in the year. No price yet, but it should probably sell
for $400 or so.