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There is trouble in space , Blanking out reception of easy stations
Double reduction set; DX / Local switch OK ?? - Famous story about a man on Long Island who bought a Barometer, unwrapped it HURRICANE said the barometer.. Tapped it HURRICANE it read Irate, Said person wrote a terse note, rewrapped the barometer, drove miles through the rain & wind to an open post office. Sent it back to Abecrombie & Fitch in New York, arrived back at his house to find it washed away.. Hurricane ! In article , "Corbin Ray" writes: I received my newest cheap Chinese portable today, a Tecsun R9700DX, and I was very disappointed. It was packaged nicely and it arrived on time, but the radio wasn't much of a performer. I tried all the bands, and at no time did it seem to be very sensitive.Even when I tried to listen to Rush on our local AM, I seemed to have trouble tuning the radio right in the middle of the carrier wave. |
Diverd4777 wrote: There is trouble in space , Blanking out reception of easy stations Double reduction set; DX / Local switch OK ?? - Famous story about a man on Long Island who bought a Barometer, unwrapped it HURRICANE said the barometer.. Tapped it HURRICANE it read Irate, Said person wrote a terse note, rewrapped the barometer, drove miles through the rain & wind to an open post office. Sent it back to Abecrombie & Fitch in New York, arrived back at his house to find it washed away.. Hurricane ! That's pretty dang funny! Or sad, depending... |
It's called marketing. And I spoke no lie there either. This IS my third
radio this week, and like it or not, I am henpecked to the point that my wife really did tell me to sell this one on eBay. The performance I experienced with my 9700 is probably average for that particular radio, no better, no worse. As most of you know, I have found a couple of cheap Chinese radios that I like better -- Tecsun BCL2000 and Degen DE1102 -- and so I am choosing to sell the 9700 and keep the other two. Also, to be fair, my opening price was only 1 penny, with no reserve, plus the actual shipping I would need to send a three-pound radio anywhere in the US. If the winning bidder paid $8.01 for the radio, would that be a problem for anyone here? Not for me. What about $10.01 or $20.01? That's up to the bidder. I paid a total of $47.90 to get that radio shipped to me. If I sell it for less or more than that, it won't matter. I was able to try the radio out for myself and I quickly found out that it didn't suit my particular needs. That puts the 9700 in the same company as the Satellit 800 and the Sony 2010. That's pretty good company for some people. What if I lose money on the transaction? Then it was a learning experience. What if I make money on the transaction? Then it was a learning experience on which I made a couple of dollars. Of course, I'll use those dollars to order another cheap radio until I find one that I want to keep. Thanks for being so understanding. |
Hmm. I got one of those and it's really nice. Would make a great
retirement present for an Uighur horseman. I like its amber light. I can guess what frequency I'm looking at +- 10kHz. It's my favorite for travelling now. I'm in an analog radio phase. On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:20:48 -0500, "Corbin Ray" wrote: I received my newest cheap Chinese portable today, a Tecsun R9700DX, and I was very disappointed. It was packaged nicely and it arrived on time, but the radio wasn't much of a performer. I tried all the bands, and at no time did it seem to be very sensitive.Even when I tried to listen to Rush on our local AM, I seemed to have trouble tuning the radio right in the middle of the carrier wave. I like the size and sound ok, even though I could get the radio to distort fairly easily by turning it up over half way on a local FM station. It's not very ergonomic, hiding the power switch at the bottom of the left side panel. The tuning knob seemed to be a bit tight, but felt solid. The volume control was a slider control, and even though I would rather have a knob, my first radio had a slider, and I thought that would be a neat feature on this radio. I didn't do much for me. I've put the radio back in the box. If I had bought it at my local Wal-Mart, I would take it back. If it was worth $100, I might sell it on eBay. But since I spent only $27.90 for the radio, it's not worth sending back to Liypn nor listing it on eBay. |
Altawaowr wrote: Hmm. I got one of those and it's really nice. Would make a great retirement present for an Uighur horseman. I like its amber light. I can guess what frequency I'm looking at +- 10kHz. It's my favorite for travelling now. I'm in an analog radio phase. Most commonly spelled Uyghar... Sorry if I interrupted you. On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:20:48 -0500, "Corbin Ray" wrote: I received my newest cheap Chinese portable today, a Tecsun R9700DX, and I was very disappointed. It was packaged nicely and it arrived on time, but the radio wasn't much of a performer. I tried all the bands, and at no time did it seem to be very sensitive.Even when I tried to listen to Rush on our local AM, I seemed to have trouble tuning the radio right in the middle of the carrier wave. I like the size and sound ok, even though I could get the radio to distort fairly easily by turning it up over half way on a local FM station. It's not very ergonomic, hiding the power switch at the bottom of the left side panel. The tuning knob seemed to be a bit tight, but felt solid. The volume control was a slider control, and even though I would rather have a knob, my first radio had a slider, and I thought that would be a neat feature on this radio. I didn't do much for me. I've put the radio back in the box. If I had bought it at my local Wal-Mart, I would take it back. If it was worth $100, I might sell it on eBay. But since I spent only $27.90 for the radio, it's not worth sending back to Liypn nor listing it on eBay. |
In article .net, Sanjaya wrote: "Jim Hackett" wrote... Funny though, I have close to 100 different portables (really need to count them) and many are less than what I had hoped for. I have NEVER considered selling any of them, so far. I did give a Bell & Howell away to someone on the group for the cost of shipping though. Good or bad, they are mine. Kinda like children, huh? Yep : ) I want to adopt a Tecsun PL-550 next Frankly, I don't see the attraction of this radio over, say, the Degen 1101 or 1102 ... except for size of speaker. In real-world use, certainly it isn't going to be the extra memory slots that the Tecsun has which will make the difference. I'm a bit puzzled by some of the new Tecsun radios, and especially how Eton has chosen which models as replacements for former offerings. For instance, they sold the PL-707A, a dual-conversion set with weird tuning controls, as one of the eTraveller models. Now they are carrying the PL-230 as the Yacht Boy 550 ... which is a _single_ conversion set ... a fact they surely don't advertise. I don't see many user reports on this set, apart from that one glowing review on RadioIntel, but there is a Yahoo forum devoted to its twin-with-one-less-AA-cell, the PL-200. What sticks in my mind from the few discussions there is poor battery life. Maybe the PL-230 does better with an additional AA cell powering it. I see no in-depth coverage of the brand new PL-550 so far .. .I'm wondering if it's single-conversion as well ... as it seems to be basically a big version of the PL-200 with an antenna trimmer. Does anyone know otherwise? |
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