Grundig S350
 

I was looking at one of these at restoration hardware and noticed that
the main tuning knob is very cheap, flimsy. The rest of the radio
seemed solid. Has anybody had any problems with the build quality.
Also, is the radio's reception better on MW then the ccrane radio.

Thanx

I haven't had the opportunity to use a Grundig 350, but I do have a Grundig
FR-200 (that's the one with the wind-up dynamo on the side). Given the size
of the Grundig 350, I'd bet the MW ferrite antenna is very similar to the
one in the FR-200.

That little Grundig does a great job on MW, but the edge goes easily to the
CCRadio Plus. The build of my FR-200 is rather cheap, but then it's only a
$40 radio. The biggest negative I have with the Grundig is that the volume
control is noisy -- turn it up or down when you're wearing headphones and
you're treated to fairly irritating pot noise. That's really a shame, too
because the tuning knob (knob-in-knob design with coarse and fine
adjustment) is one of the best I've used on an analog radio. It has
sufficient range to allow you to get even weak stations dead center on
crowded spots on the dial.

-- Stinger


"Neurotech" wrote in message
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I was looking at one of these at restoration hardware and noticed that
the main tuning knob is very cheap, flimsy. The rest of the radio
seemed solid. Has anybody had any problems with the build quality.
Also, is the radio's reception better on MW then the ccrane radio.

Thanx

See this review:

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/3112



On 19 Oct 2003 17:04:45 -0700, (Neurotech)
wrote:

I was looking at one of these at restoration hardware and noticed that
the main tuning knob is very cheap, flimsy. The rest of the radio
seemed solid. Has anybody had any problems with the build quality.
Also, is the radio's reception better on MW then the ccrane radio.

Thanx

The ferrite antenna in the S-350 is almost the length of the radio.
Something like 7 1/2 inches. It is a lot of radio for the price. My ONLY
complaint is that it drifts somewhat off frequency. It can be minimized by
always making your last movement in the counter clockwise direction...



"Stinger" wrote in message
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I haven't had the opportunity to use a Grundig 350, but I do have a
Grundig
FR-200 (that's the one with the wind-up dynamo on the side). Given the
size
of the Grundig 350, I'd bet the MW ferrite antenna is very similar to the
one in the FR-200.

That little Grundig does a great job on MW, but the edge goes easily to
the
CCRadio Plus. The build of my FR-200 is rather cheap, but then it's only
a
$40 radio. The biggest negative I have with the Grundig is that the
volume
control is noisy -- turn it up or down when you're wearing headphones and
you're treated to fairly irritating pot noise. That's really a shame, too
because the tuning knob (knob-in-knob design with coarse and fine
adjustment) is one of the best I've used on an analog radio. It has
sufficient range to allow you to get even weak stations dead center on
crowded spots on the dial.

-- Stinger


"Neurotech" wrote in message
om...
I was looking at one of these at restoration hardware and noticed that
the main tuning knob is very cheap, flimsy. The rest of the radio
seemed solid. Has anybody had any problems with the build quality.
Also, is the radio's reception better on MW then the ccrane radio.

Thanx

I just got one last Friday. I bought it to be a "back porch" radio;
something to use while sitting on the back porch on nice evenings. I bought
it primarily for the tunung knob. I wanted something that I could use to
just slowly tune through the bands at my leisure, not to mention the looks
of the radio in general. I was also attracted to the long battery life and
good sound quality. I have found it to be at least as sensitive off the
whip as my Sangean ATS-909, if not just a tad more so. It's really pretty
good off my 100ft random wire antenna. Its selectivity is marginal at best.
I do have to use the RF knob to eliminate adjacent signals, but it seems to
do the trick for the most part. Yes, it does drift, but I haven't found
that to be too annoying (yet). I would like to thank the person who
mentioned the counterclockwise tuning to alievate this. That does help.
For $99 I have found it to be a good radio. I heard some say that it
reminds them of radios from the 70's that were so bad that it scared many
away from the hobby. If this had been my first radio, it would have simply
stimulated my interest.
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"Neurotech" wrote in message
om...
I was looking at one of these at restoration hardware and noticed that
the main tuning knob is very cheap, flimsy. The rest of the radio
seemed solid. Has anybody had any problems with the build quality.
Also, is the radio's reception better on MW then the ccrane radio.

Thanx