Frank Dresser wrote:
"Richard" wrote in message
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That article really does scathe rec.radio,shortwave"!! Ha!! That was
just unfortunate, I was not concentrating on that part of the article.
Just came with the bit I was interested in.:c)



My mistake, Richard. I was hoping you were the "former broadcast
engineer", posting under a false name.

I'd really love to have learned more about this undocumented double
image superhet effect. And what is the exact number of bargain basement
radios a really sharp consumer needs to buy before he realizes that they
don't perform as well as expensive older radios.

Well, maybe the "former broadcast engineer" will start posting here on
rec.radio.trailer_park. Always room for another, well -- you know.

Frank Dresser

To be honest, I don't know the details of the sets he claims were not up to
a late 1960's Grundig. I got the drift though, rightly or wrongly that
todays FM portables (especially pocket?) are pretty poor on FM. Deaf and
maybe full of spurious stations in vicinity of local FM channels.

Was re-inforced by what I read previously about the Sony ICFM33RDS:

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/t/98752/ds.html

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"Anybody got one of these personal radios?

[Richard: He's talking about a Sony srf 59 personal radio bought for about
$30]

I've just brought one, and I really don't rate it. I get a 'ghost' radio 4
signal up and down the FM band, and there is a fair amount of hiss with the
radio on and the volume right down, the same on both AM and FM so I don't
think it's radio interfernce- more likely coming from the internal
circuitry?

OK so 20 quid isn't a kings ransom, but it is considerably more than a Bush
or Alba walkman-which has tape too.

I've been a 'fan' of Sony's radios for a while, and this is the first time
I've been disappointed by one

Anyone else out there happy/disappointed with one?
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[Richard: Kev replies:]

my ICF-M33RDS does the same - except in my case it's 96 Trent FM below 96.2,
Faza until 97.1 and radio Nottingham from 87 - 103.8 and 107.2FM
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[Richard: Later UNcabled says:]

I find that budget Sony radios have too much sensitivity in the FM band, and
consequently there is always a certain amount of overloading which causes
ghost stations (it's always Radio 1 in my experience), and a station 'pile
up' around the 100MHz point.

Their AM performance however is usually really good, especially if you live
in a city where the signals are clean and strong.
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What strikes me now is that this is all in relation to cheap (cost wise)
radios. Have I managed to tar all pocket radios re FM performance with the
same brush? Wrongly? I thought not somehow when I read at:

http://www.home.earthlink.net/%7Esrw...rundig-100.htm