"Patty Winter" wrote in message
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In article ,
James Boyk wrote:
Sorry to ask what must be a perennial question, but is a car radio now
available
for US market which will get me here on the west coast the big
international
stations (Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, BBC)? Along with FM
and
10k-spaced AM? And preferably with selectable sideband and synchronous
detection, like on my Sony 2010 at home? (Having lived with these
features, I
don't see why anyone would make a receiver without them.) And, ideally,
with CD
player also?

Hi, Jim.

I'm coming in late to this discussion, so perhaps you've already
Googled the thread that I started about this subject several weeks
ago. The upshot is that I bought a Becker Mexico. I got the one with
the cassette player, but they have them with CD players, too. I bought
it from Continental Imports in Florida (www.continentalimports.com).

I just had it installed today, so I can't give you a full report
yet, but so far so good! I can hear one non-directional beacon
on the longwave band, and as I was driving home just after sunset
tonight, I heard lots of stations while scanning through shortwave.
The sensitivity seems good on the AM broadcast band, too.

I'm currently using the built-in wire antenna in the windshield of
my Porsche. I'll evaluate things for a while before deciding whether
I need a different antenna.


I just noticed that the Mexico doens't have a button labeled "SW";
how to you switch to the SW bands? I wonder if anyone has a
list of which other Becker models received SW, because on Ebay,
none of the other models had a button labeled "SW", so I assumed
(wrongly?) that they didn't receive SW.