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That's one of the things I also like about analog radios. The batteries last
such a long time. I never really thought of this as a problem with the two Sony digitals I had, because I live in a region that had never had a technological or natural catastrophe of any kind in my lifetime. But then, we were without power for 5 days during the big ice storm of Jan 1998 (right in the city too), and then again this past summer, we were without power almost 24 hours. 24 hours wasn't too bad, but man, it wasn't easy to find a store with batteries in stock during that ice storm. I think that's when my then love affair with things digital began to wane ![]() About the drifting. It drifts a little bit on SW, and the digital frequency readout seems very precise in showing it, but, in my experience, not that much for analog tuning. I don't personally find it a problem. I've so far only used mine on batteries. I haven't tried the AC adaptor. Pierre "Corbin Ray" wrote in message ... I took my BCL 2000 outside and listened for a couple of hours today. It's such a sweet radio, but most of the time, there's too much RF noise in my house to get much use out of its sensitivity. I mainly use it to listen to AM talk or maybe a ballgame or maybe an oldies station on FM. Dxing isn't possible inside our house right now. We have a cable modem and four computers all networked with WI-FI. The radio noise is unbearable with everything going at once. One thing I noticed today about my 2000, the radio's battery indicator is one step below full. I got my radio in Feb 2003. On the day I got it, I bought some cheap Panasonic alkalines (4/$2) to put in it. If the radio had been a dud, I didn't want to waste money on good batteries. But, now it's been 13 months, and those cheap batteries are still going (sorry Eveready) strong. Oh, to be fair and balanced, there is one thing I wish I could change about this radio that really drives me crazy. The fine tuning mechanism is ok on MW and FM, but on shortwave, especially over 15 MHz, it's incredibly tough to fine tune those signals. |
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