What's the best SW deal you ever got?
 

Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

"Sanjaya" wrote in message
.net...

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get free?

Purchased at an estate sale a perfect looking (no scratches or worn spots)
working National NC-140 for $1.00. Don't know but suspect the folks holding
the sale thought it didn't work as it requires an external speaker which it
didn't have. I didn't ask if it worked or not and just assumed that due to
the asking price that it didn't. It was short the band switch knob which I
located on the internet. The damn knob cost me more than the radio.
About 30 years ago I walked out of an estate sale with an SP-600 and an
NC-183D for $60.00. The 183D looked almost new and every thing worked great.
The 600 looked a little ragged around the edges but was in great working
condition. RM~

I also got a store model radio Shack DX-399 for ~$ 35;

Already had one, so I Gave it to a freind who does DX'ing at night;

Dan




In article , "Sanjaya"
writes:


Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

Went to an auction about a year ago and bought a Yaesu FRG-7 for
14 bucks. Darn thing is in great shape and it has become my #1 SW receiver.
At this same auction I bought a Hickok 534 tube tester..almost mint
shape...for a buck.
Ben


"Sanjaya" wrote in message
.net...
Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

Hi,

I got my Grundig Mini 100PE for nothing (gift). Extraordinary receiver given
it's size and selling price
--

Take Care
Abb N
VE3003SWL
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

"Sanjaya" wrote in message
.net...
Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

About three years ago I acquired the Realistic/RS version of the Sangean
ATS818C (DX398? Is that right?) from the local R.S. store, where I had seen it
languishing on the 'out-for-repairs' shelf down behind the counter for nearly a
year.
Apparently, the RS home office told this store it was unrepairable, and the
store gave the customer credit or his money back or something, but this radio
sat forever with everything it came with.
Anyway, right around Christmastime I was shopping and went into RS for some
things, and curiousity finally got the better of me. The guy told me the
backstory of the radio, and then said I could have it for nothing, just get it
out of his store. I of course had NO problem with that. He went in the back,
got a big box, and cleaned the shelf into the box, and said 'take it all. Happy
Holidays..."
Well, there was the radio, but also a Weller 65w soldering gun, a RS 30w
soldering pencil, and a number of little items, all of which were supposedly in
bad enough shape to get rid of.
Turns out the radio only needed the BFO pot re-attached to the board (the RS
office must have assumed the board was cracked, and replacing the radio was
indeed the easier and cheaper of the choices) but the board was fine. So, after
fixing the pot, I had a brand new-looking, working DX398 for free! Plus, the
soldering gun needed a new tip and some rewiring, but works and looks good as
new. The soldering pencil was in perfect shape.
A good friend who was becoming interested in shortwave got a nice radio from me
that year!
Linus

I believe the ATS818C is the RS Dx-392.

"GrtPmpkin32" wrote in message
...
What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

About three years ago I acquired the Realistic/RS version of the Sangean
ATS818C (DX398? Is that right?) from the local R.S. store, where I had
seen it
languishing on the 'out-for-repairs' shelf down behind the counter for
nearly a
year.
Apparently, the RS home office told this store it was unrepairable, and
the
store gave the customer credit or his money back or something, but this
radio
sat forever with everything it came with.
Anyway, right around Christmastime I was shopping and went into RS for
some
things, and curiousity finally got the better of me. The guy told me the
backstory of the radio, and then said I could have it for nothing, just
get it
out of his store. I of course had NO problem with that. He went in the
back,
got a big box, and cleaned the shelf into the box, and said 'take it all.
Happy
Holidays..."
Well, there was the radio, but also a Weller 65w soldering gun, a RS 30w
soldering pencil, and a number of little items, all of which were
supposedly in
bad enough shape to get rid of.
Turns out the radio only needed the BFO pot re-attached to the board (the
RS
office must have assumed the board was cracked, and replacing the radio
was
indeed the easier and cheaper of the choices) but the board was fine. So,
after
fixing the pot, I had a brand new-looking, working DX398 for free! Plus,
the
soldering gun needed a new tip and some rewiring, but works and looks good
as
new. The soldering pencil was in perfect shape.
A good friend who was becoming interested in shortwave got a nice radio
from me
that year!
Linus

I believe the ATS818C is the RS Dx-392.


Yeah, that was the other number banging around in my brain. Thanks for the
correction!
Linus

"Sanjaya" wrote in message
.net...
Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

Some ham-op in the neighborhood passed away in 97.

Some months later I met his wife, who was putting
out large folded boxes on the curb the night before
trash night. Slammed on the brakes, backed up into
the driveway and offered to help her "clean out".

She accepted and was glad to get rid of "..all that radio
crap" her husband had filled 1/2 of their basement with.
(She was moving to Florida to live with her relatives
and had to clean out the house as it was sold, she also
didn't care much for her deceased hubby's 'radio
hobby' as she said he would "..tear into the telephone
with his big antenna and wreck TV reception unil
he sprang for cable."

From this chance evening encounter, I scored a Drake SW-8,
one Drake TR4-C's w/speakers, a Kenwood 850,
two Hammerlund HQ-170A's one Clipperton-L
Linear, a nickle-plated Vibroplex Bug and 5 crates of
radio tubes & parts........all for **no charge** except
muscle work and hoisting into my Ford P/U.
(plus a triband beam antenna and tower a week later)

Needless 2 say, I was a very, very, very, happy camper. ; )

"kiebassa 20" wrote in message
groups.com...



Some ham-op in the neighborhood passed away in 97.

Some months later I met his wife, who was putting
out large folded boxes on the curb the night before
trash night. Slammed on the brakes, backed up into
the driveway and offered to help her "clean out".

She accepted and was glad to get rid of "..all that radio
crap" her husband had filled 1/2 of their basement with.
(She was moving to Florida to live with her relatives
and had to clean out the house as it was sold, she also
didn't care much for her deceased hubby's 'radio
hobby' as she said he would "..tear into the telephone
with his big antenna and wreck TV reception unil
he sprang for cable."

From this chance evening encounter, I scored a Drake SW-8,
one Drake TR4-C's w/speakers, a Kenwood 850,
two Hammerlund HQ-170A's one Clipperton-L
Linear, a nickle-plated Vibroplex Bug and 5 crates of
radio tubes & parts........all for **no charge** except
muscle work and hoisting into my Ford P/U.
(plus a triband beam antenna and tower a week later)

Needless 2 say, I was a very, very, very, happy camper. ; )

And of course you sold the equipment and gave the widow half the money.

DeWayne

I got an almost new Sony SW-100s on the Universal Radio web site for $175.
It sells for about $400 new. Though used it was in excellant condition. All
I needed to buy was an adaptor. I figure it would easily go for $275 on
Ebay.
Sanjaya wrote in message
.net...
Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:09:32 GMT, "Sanjaya"
wrote:

Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?


About three years ago I purchased a Zenith 15-U-269 in almost mint
condition from a small antique store for $300.00. Best $300.00 I have
ever spent.

Makes you think that you gotta tell the wife what to do with your sHi$ when
you are gone. It's great that you got the stuff rather that it going to the
dump! Did you get any of the logs that he may of kept?

"kiebassa 20" wrote in message
groups.com...

"Sanjaya" wrote in message
.net...
Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

Some ham-op in the neighborhood passed away in 97.

Some months later I met his wife, who was putting
out large folded boxes on the curb the night before
trash night. Slammed on the brakes, backed up into
the driveway and offered to help her "clean out".

She accepted and was glad to get rid of "..all that radio
crap" her husband had filled 1/2 of their basement with.
(She was moving to Florida to live with her relatives
and had to clean out the house as it was sold, she also
didn't care much for her deceased hubby's 'radio
hobby' as she said he would "..tear into the telephone
with his big antenna and wreck TV reception unil
he sprang for cable."

From this chance evening encounter, I scored a Drake SW-8,
one Drake TR4-C's w/speakers, a Kenwood 850,
two Hammerlund HQ-170A's one Clipperton-L
Linear, a nickle-plated Vibroplex Bug and 5 crates of
radio tubes & parts........all for **no charge** except
muscle work and hoisting into my Ford P/U.
(plus a triband beam antenna and tower a week later)

Needless 2 say, I was a very, very, very, happy camper. ; )

In Sept, I purchased the Sony ICF SW-77 from the local Sony Store here
in San Juan, PR for $300!!! I posted the bargain on this and another
board and they went fast after stateside residents called and ordered
theirs for an additional $20 shipping and handling fee.

My Hammarlund SP-600-JX-17. I paid nothing for it. In 1980 I aquired a
portable color tv that supposedly didn't work. I brought it home, fixed a
cold solder joint, and it worked fine. My friend wanted the color tv and
offered the Hammerlund, a mint Vinking Ranger, and a few more pieces of
equipment. The only piece I have left is the Hammerlund. A local tech
restored it for me 2 years ago and did a wonderful job.
I've added an outboard product detector and a Hammarlund matching speaker.
--
73's
Rick

Drake R8 R8B
ICOM R75
Yaesu 7700
Hammarlund SP-600-JX-17

"If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?"
"Nathan" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:09:32 GMT, "Sanjaya"
wrote:

Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?


About three years ago I purchased a Zenith 15-U-269 in almost mint
condition from a small antique store for $300.00. Best $300.00 I have
ever spent.

:
My Kenwood R-1000 Communication Receiver. I paid almost full retail
price for it, but no matter, the radio has worked great for 20 years
(except for the on/off button I had to replace).

Sanjaya schrieb:


That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?



4 weeks ago I got an IC-PCR1000 with a minor fault on the connector of
the diskriminator output in addition with a discone antenna for EUR 152
shipping included.
The antenna itself sells for EUR 95 new and I gave the antenna away for
EUR 25 plus shipping to another lucky guy as I already had another very
good discone antenna. So I have the PCR1000 for EUR 127 wich is a steal
for this thing. I had a PCR1000 back in 1998/99 but I "killed" the
HF-board when i tried to modify the 2nd IF-stage.... :-(
Got a NRD-525 then in ugly condition because it sat on the shelf in the
livingroom of a smoker and was never used or even touched for years. But
I got it for DM 300 (EUR 154). This was a _r_e_a_l_(!) steal. I gave
this thing a full bath in propylene alcohol and after that it looks and
works like new. I added a MuRata CFJ-K13 (2,4khz) on the AUX and a
CFJ-K8 (1.3khz) on the NARROW position. I replaced the FL2 with a
CFW-455HT (6khz) and shielded the FL1 arrangement. This gave a very
noticeable improvement to the 525.
Lucky as I am I was offered USD100 to ship the spare RF-board (european
version) of the PCR1000 to the US. At the same time I was offered the
RS-232-board to remote control the NRD-525 -I was looking for- from
another guy in the US for USD100.
So I hardly need to touch the knobs on my 525 :-) I have it working in
my basement apartment with an FD-antenna in the huge attic at the 6th
floor. My discone antenna is also sitting in the attic. Also a magnetic
loop antenna with the capacitor driven by remote control. Having a bunch
of cables running through an old chimney wich is out of use from my
apartment to the attic.

Best regards from Berlin/Germany,
Volker

I own an Icom 735 that has given me 10 years trouble free listening. It is
a ham radio, but doubles as an excellant, very sensitive receiver. I paid
full price and it was worth it.
I been able to receive many weak signals off this radio, where any of my
portable radios would fail.
Sanjaya wrote in message
.net...
Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

"Jim Douglas" wrote in message
news:teTLb.14471$8H.33964@attbi_s03...
Makes you think that you gotta tell the wife what to do with your sHi$ when
you are gone. It's great that you got the stuff rather that it going to the
dump! Did you get any of the logs that he may of kept?

I have already spelled out in 'legal terms' what
the exact disposition of the radio gear I have
is to be. (plus the wife already knows how to
watch out for the hams who peruse the Obit
postings)

Unfortunatly his logs, along with the manuals
and paper files for the radios were gone 2 weeks
before I arrived, via the "green plastic 10 gallon bag"
inside of the trash can. Can't have everything !

: )

Sanjaya wrote in message

Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

I guess it would have to be my Hallicrafters-S20R 'Sky Champion'. I
bought it for $15 decades ago. I used that radio more than any other
I've owned since then, which is quite a few radios.


-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
-----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----

In article , starman wrote:
I guess it would have to be my Hallicrafters-S20R 'Sky Champion'. I
bought it for $15 decades ago. I used that radio more than any other
I've owned since then, which is quite a few radios.

Mine would have to be two: A Nordmende transistorized shorwave radio
someone smashed and tossed in the trash. I found it and it still worked,
thogh I never could put it back together again. I used it from about
the time I was 11 years old until...

When I was around 17 (1970) someone gave me a Hallicrafters S38B. I did
some "upgrades" to it, adding an isolation transformer, a "hack" to replace
the dial cord, and an early silicon diode noise limiter. Lasted until
I purchased my first "modern" receiver, a Sony ICF-7600 around 1985.

I gave the S38B to a friend of friend who wanted it for listening to the
BBC.

Since then I've owned and sold many receivers, too.

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson 972-54-608-069
Icq/AIM Uin: 2661079 MSN IM: (Not for email)

when i was 10 i got an rca ar-88 (still got it) for free and just last week
i got a drake r8 for free it works great as well.



"pjw" wrote in message
.net...
My drake R8B for $1,199 three years ago.

Paul

SONY SW55 $125 new at the SONY outlet mall in San Marcos, TX

"Sanjaya" wrote in message
.net...
Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

My drake R8B for $1,199 three years ago.

Paul

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?




My grandfather gave me his Johnson Ranger, and a Hammarlund BC
794 Super Pro.

Bet purchase was an auction. 3 1924-26 Charles Freshman's and
one '26 Sun Model 50 TRF, all for $1.


Found an antique shop in Crete, Illinois with a Halli S-40B
for $10.

But my fave is my Philco model 90 floor model for $37 at an
antique store in Rockford. They said it didn't work.

They were wrong.



heheheh.

Leonard Martin wrote:

Hey, I have an S-20R that I haven't turned on yet. What do you like about it?

It's what I *did* like about it at the time. I haven't used it for at
least 20-years. It was my first shortwave receiver with a BFO,
bandspread, noise limiter, flywheel tuning and nice audio. I actually
used it as a test bed for all kinds of mod's, including improving the
high-end (above 15-Mhz) sensitivity and overall selectivity. Best of all
I built a digital frequency display for it. It cost about $100 for the
parts back then! It was a real luxury in those days to have a visual
tuning accuracy of 1-Khz.
I heard more countries on the S-20R than on any receiver since, mainly
because those were my QSL days and I was enthralled by the thrill of the
hunt. I think many SWL's will tell you that they have a fond regard for
their first real communications receiver, even if it now seems like a
dinosaur by today's standards.


-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
-----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----

"
What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

About 2 years ago I found a brand spankin new in the box Magnavox
D2999. I paid $2 or $250. The price might not have that great, but for
a radio that hadn't been produced in over 10 years I was happy with
the price. I had keep an eye out for quite some time for that unit. I
think I got the last new unit in existance. The rig is on of my
favorites. I have a penchant for nice portables.

Good reading
John

Sony crf-v21 from a gov auction for 300 dollars...

Tracy

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:56:40 -0600, "Gregory L. Dome"
wrote:

SONY SW55 $125 new at the SONY outlet mall in San Marcos, TX

"Sanjaya" wrote in message
k.net...
Yesterday I was thinking about what a great deal I got
on the Radio Shack DX-399 (Sangean ATS-606)
when RS closed them out at $40. I bought 2.

That got me wondering what you consider to be
your "steal of a lifetime". The recent amazon.com
pricing of $150 for the Sony SW-07 comes to mind.

What did you purchase for a great price, or even get
free?

Is there a price book that lets you know what they are worth?

Subject: What's the best SW deal you ever got?

2 pallets consisting of 15 R-390A's and 1 R-390 for $50.00.

Many years ago. All now gone.


Les

New GRUNDIG YACHT BOY400 .
I got it a few months agor for about 100 EUR.

Llgpt wrote:

Subject: What's the best SW deal you ever got?

2 pallets consisting of 15 R-390A's and 1 R-390 for $50.00.

Many years ago. All now gone.

Les

"DJ" wrote in message ...
Is there a price book that lets you know what they are worth?

http://www.dxing.com/rx/rxindex.htm
http://www.dxing.com/rx/tindex.htm
John