I'm looking for a wind-up s/w radio.
 

Comrades! I thank you in advance for any advice you give me.

I would like to purchase a s/w radio that can be powered by a crank.
There are at least 3, maybe 4-5 of them out there. I am most
interested in the s/w strengths of the radio: sensitivity and then
selectivity. AM broadcast is a 2nd interest. Next would come audio
quality from the radio's own speaker. FM doesn't matter at all;
doesn't even have to be there.

From what I have read - here and elsewhere - the Grundig is the hands
down winner. Does anyone have any different experience/recommendation?


--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)

I. P. Yurin wrote:
Comrades! I thank you in advance for any advice you give me.

I would like to purchase a s/w radio that can be powered by a crank.
There are at least 3, maybe 4-5 of them out there. I am most
interested in the s/w strengths of the radio: sensitivity and then
selectivity. AM broadcast is a 2nd interest. Next would come audio
quality from the radio's own speaker. FM doesn't matter at all;
doesn't even have to be there.

From what I have read - here and elsewhere - the Grundig is the hands
down winner. Does anyone have any different experience/recommendation?



You're shopping for a $9.95 shortwave radio with a $20 handle on it.
Don't presume too much in which brand is better.
-ICU-Ping

"I. P. Yurin" wrote:

Comrades! I thank you in advance for any advice you give me.

I would like to purchase a s/w radio that can be powered by a crank.

There are plenty of cranks out there Comrade, whether they are capable of
powering a s/w radio is another matter altogether.


There are at least 3, maybe 4-5 of them out there. I am most
interested in the s/w strengths of the radio: sensitivity and then
selectivity. AM broadcast is a 2nd interest. Next would come audio
quality from the radio's own speaker. FM doesn't matter at all;
doesn't even have to be there.

From what I have read - here and elsewhere - the Grundig is the hands
down winner. Does anyone have any different experience/recommendation?

--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)

N8KDV wrote:


There are plenty of cranks out there Comrade, whether they are capable of
powering a s/w radio is another matter altogether.



Didn't uber-crank Al Patrick have a long thread
about powering his mighty B&H a while back?

Comrade.

I remember reading a review of a number of
such models. I thought it was at Radiointel,
but I can't find it there, so I must be mistaken.
If your Google skills are better than mine maybe
you can track it down.
As far as I can recall it agreed with what you've
seen, that the Grundig is about as good as they get.

I. P. Yurin wrote:
Comrades! I thank you in advance for any advice you give me.

I would like to purchase a s/w radio that can be powered by a crank.
There are at least 3, maybe 4-5 of them out there. I am most
interested in the s/w strengths of the radio: sensitivity and then
selectivity. AM broadcast is a 2nd interest. Next would come audio
quality from the radio's own speaker. FM doesn't matter at all;
doesn't even have to be there.

From what I have read - here and elsewhere - the Grundig is the hands
down winner. Does anyone have any different experience/recommendation?

This might be it, I can't remember:
Two part article -

http://www.tjtdesign.com/radios/windup.htm
http://www.tjtdesign.com/radios/radio3.htm


Larry Ozarow wrote:

Comrade.

I remember reading a review of a number of
such models. I thought it was at Radiointel,
but I can't find it there, so I must be mistaken.
If your Google skills are better than mine maybe
you can track it down.
As far as I can recall it agreed with what you've
seen, that the Grundig is about as good as they get.

Larry Ozarow wrote:

This might be it, I can't remember:
Two part article -

http://www.tjtdesign.com/radios/windup.htm
http://www.tjtdesign.com/radios/radio3.htm


Larry Ozarow wrote:

Comrade.

I remember reading a review of a number of
such models. I thought it was at Radiointel,
but I can't find it there, so I must be mistaken.
If your Google skills are better than mine maybe
you can track it down.
As far as I can recall it agreed with what you've
seen, that the Grundig is about as good as they get.

Thank you, comrade. Greatly appreciated.

--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)

N8KDV wrote:

"I. P. Yurin" wrote:

Comrades! I thank you in advance for any advice you give me.

I would like to purchase a s/w radio that can be powered by a crank.

There are plenty of cranks out there Comrade, whether they are capable of
powering a s/w radio is another matter altogether.

Good point. From the posts here, we can see that many of the cranks
can *operate* a s/w radio, though!




There are at least 3, maybe 4-5 of them out there. I am most
interested in the s/w strengths of the radio: sensitivity and then
selectivity. AM broadcast is a 2nd interest. Next would come audio
quality from the radio's own speaker. FM doesn't matter at all;
doesn't even have to be there.

From what I have read - here and elsewhere - the Grundig is the hands
down winner. Does anyone have any different experience/recommendation?

--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)

--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)

Larry Ozarow wrote:

N8KDV wrote:


There are plenty of cranks out there Comrade, whether they are capable of
powering a s/w radio is another matter altogether.



Didn't uber-crank Al Patrick have a long thread
about powering his mighty B&H a while back?

Indeed he did. It went on -- like his jew-hatin' posts -- endlessly.
--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)

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Comrades! I thank you in advance for any advice you give me.

Never draw to a straight!

I would like to purchase a s/w radio that can be powered by a crank.
There are at least 3, maybe 4-5 of them out there. I am most
interested in the s/w strengths of the radio: sensitivity and then
selectivity. AM broadcast is a 2nd interest. Next would come audio
quality from the radio's own speaker. FM doesn't matter at all;
doesn't even have to be there.

From what I have read - here and elsewhere - the Grundig is the hands
down winner. Does anyone have any different experience/recommendation?

I've got a Grundig FR-200 emergency radio. The sensitivity and
selectivity are quite good, and the audio quality is good enough.
It has AM/FM; main problem is it only covers the SW bands from
3.2 to 7.6 MHz, and 9.2 to 22.0 MHz. It's also got a VERY solid
plastic case, and is suprisingly light.

At $40, it's an EXCELLENT emergency and secondary radio.

FW