It's so good on batteries I use it as an FM radio

Me, too. I carry mine around the house and yard, when I'm busy with this and
that. Also, I use for batteries those that no longer work in my memory-equipped
radios. G

I have no problem, though, reading the digital dispplay, although I see its
transparent covering is becoming slightly discolored.

The other two I gave to my local teenage grandson and the teenage girl next
door, along with a huge notebook, each, of organized SWL and SW station info.

Bill, K5BY

I wrote that Intel piece, Kevin. I'd already made one revision to it. I noticed
later, though, that the physical description I gave was a poor guesstimate.

One thing I've noticed about mine now is that the tuning is getting a little
sloppy mechanically. But I've done a lot of surfing and band switching since
I'd had it. It's almost become my prime radio. Someday, I'll look inside and
see if there is just something loose that can be tightened. Electrically it's
still good. The tuning almost seems like backlash.

My favorite pocket portable, though, is my Grundig eTR7.

Bill, K5BY

I have a blue WRX911 and it's a great radio. It's very sensitive. I
could get all kinds of stations with it when I took it camping last
summer. The quality seemed really high to me, it's solid. It is
better than the little sangean portable they had a few years back that
was fragile like a wine glass. The speaker is really good too with
audible speech.


On 4 Dec 2003 15:34:02 GMT, Kevin Croxen
wrote:

Anybody else had a quality control problem with those new Kaito WRX-911
models?

I just wanted something small, inexpensive, and light that I could carry in
my jacket pocket and listen to while walking to and from work, and picked a
Kaito WRX-911 in preference to a Grundig Mini-World 100 PE for this purpose
based on the comparative review on radiointel.com

But the Kaito arrived partly DOA, with some sort of intermittent connection
problem in the RF circuitry for AM MW that renders that one band unusable.
Worse, since I bought it from radios4you.com, who do not accept returns under
any circumstances, the brand-new radio, after its initial inspection and
before being used, needs to be launched directly at the warranty service
department at kaitousa.com

So now I'm just curious. Anyone else had troubles with these new Kaito
WRX-911's? Conversely, has anyone had problems out-of-the-box with the
equivalent Grundig Min-World 100 PE's ?

Regards,

--Kevin

In article ,
(WShoots1) writes:


The other two I gave to my local teenage grandson and the teenage girl next
door, along with a huge notebook, each, of organized SWL and SW station info.

Bill, K5BY


AHA! Great Present for the kid who has everything . .. !

AHA! Great Present for the kid who has everything . .. !

That, too. G

Bill, K5BY

In article , WShoots1 wrote:
I wrote that Intel piece, Kevin. I'd already made one revision to it. I noticed
later, though, that the physical description I gave was a poor guesstimate.

One thing I've noticed about mine now is that the tuning is getting a little
sloppy mechanically. But I've done a lot of surfing and band switching since
I'd had it. It's almost become my prime radio. Someday, I'll look inside and
see if there is just something loose that can be tightened. Electrically it's
still good. The tuning almost seems like backlash.

My favorite pocket portable, though, is my Grundig eTR7.

Bill, K5BY

A nice and informative review.

Been doing very little other than shovelling snow the last 3 days. Even got
to help hand-shovel out a stuck snowplow --gosh I love New England! But, when
the sidewalks are walkable again this week I'll make a side-trip to the local
RadioShack, brave the swarm of cellular service salesmen, who at least don't
yell in my ear over the phone, and check out the low-end pocket-size
Grundigs.

The goal remains a reasonable and inexpensive shortwave-capable receiver in
my pocket for the daily walk to work and back. My '80s vintage Emerson, and
equally old Soviet-made Rossiia 303 are not small or light enough to fill the
bill for a walking commute. Back at home, I just tend to listen to whichever
old Halli I've most recently restored or been working on. Nowadays it's the
SX-96.


Best,

--Kevin

In article , Altawaowr wrote:
I have a blue WRX911 and it's a great radio. It's very sensitive. I
could get all kinds of stations with it when I took it camping last
summer. The quality seemed really high to me, it's solid. It is
better than the little sangean portable they had a few years back that
was fragile like a wine glass. The speaker is really good too with
audible speech.


Thanks for the information. I'm glad to hear that problems similar to the one
I experienced with the WRX-911 do not appear to be endemic.

Cheers,

--Kevin