Telamon wrote:

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SC Dxing wrote:

On Dec 22, 1:16 am, Bob Dobbs wrote:

Only later did I subscribe to this group and observe such a collection
of disgruntled owners, if they were indeed owners and not just sour
grape whiners.
I think Roy (Hussein) Fisk has one and he never complains about it.

I recently got back into listening to SW radio. It seems every new
unit that comes out gets torn to shreds while all the old units were
glorious works of perfection, but I'm inclined to believe it's people
being perhaps over-analyzing. It seems the more expensive the portable
SW unit (e1, satellit 750 etc) the more they are getting torn up in
reviews. I don't know.

I only got one SW now, a new Grundig G6. The only complaint I got
against that unit is the aircraft band is useless and full of images
from FM, especially compared to my police scanners. Otherwise, I think
for 99 bucks (and now on sale for 79 bucks), it's a darn good little
unit.

If I could find one in a brick and mortar store, I would like to buy
the Satellit 750, or at least see it in person.

There have been just a few radios that people only have minor quibbles
with so the new models get compared to them and the slaughter begins. An
example is Drake sync detection. If the radio does not have synchronous
detection that's a complaint. If it does have sync then does it work as
good as the R8 series does?

Basically people are conditioned to expect electronics to keep advancing
and improvements in one make are expected to show up in a new models of
other makes.

So as time goes on people become more demanding and easier to disappoint.

I'm wondering if a new description should be applied to many of these new
radios? Call them 'partables' vs. 'portables' as they are so easy to part with.

"dxAce" wrote in message
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I'm wondering if a new description should be applied to many of these new
radios? Call them 'partables' vs. 'portables' as they are so easy to part
with.



Good zing, Steve. Importables would be good, too.. since that's what all of
them are.

On Dec 21, 10:16*pm, Bob Dobbs wrote:
Mike wrote:
I know a lot of folks knock Eton (hard not to
scoff at their marketing of the E!!),

Assuming you meant to type E1,
I wasn't aware of their marketing nor the nay saying in forums like this
when I decided on one. I saw it at the local HRO back in 2005 when in
there on other business, read the white paper from PtWBR, and decided to
go with it.
Because of its digital display the slight factory frequency calibration
error was more noticeable, so being a bit nit picky I took it back for
another that was within published specs, then had to swap again later
when I got the XM antenna and couldn't get an initialization handshake,
but third time was the charm and I really like it. I probably could have
gotten by with the first one had I known about the osc tweak hole on the
back.
Only later did I subscribe to this group and observe such a collection
of disgruntled owners, if they were indeed owners and not just sour
grape whiners.

- I think Roy (Hussein) Fisk has one
- and he never complains about it.

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Operator Bob
Echo Charlie 42

It's a Wonderful Radio ! ~ R {who-is-insane} F