Older Shortwave Radios - Worth repairing?
 

wrote:

Kurt wrote:
Hi everyone. I enjoy listening to shortwave but I've lately been
unlucky
trying to keep them in one piece!

I just bought a Sony 7600GR a few months ago because my favourite
radio -
the Panasonic RF-2600 - was bumped and it fell off a shelf onto the
floor.
It broke the antenna which I could deal with, but afterwards to found
out
that it had no AM/SW sound, yet the FM band worked fine. I took iit
apart
to see if I could see if there was anything on the circuit board that
was
physically broken or loose, but I couldn't find anything so it's
either a)
try to find somebody with the proper schematics and equipment to
repair it
or b) get rid of it.
What do you think? Is it a good enough radio to get repaired or
should I
maybe just sell it for parts and save up for a decent modern tabletop
shortwave radio? I see from ebay that there is still a large demand
for
older shortwaves which I find perplexing. Is it more of a collecting
thing
or are they really better radios in so far as their signals go, their
analog
dials, or do they just sound better because of their larger speakers,
etc?
I'm happy with everything about my 7600GR with the exception of the
sound
quality, which could be better and would still like to have a good
reciever
with big speakers and nice, crisp sound. The FM discrimation on the
RF-2600 is better than ANY radio I have ever used.and listened to SW
on it
for many hours, I hate to see it go, but maybe I can get a few
unbiased
'expert' opinons here on what you would recommend?!

snips


It really depends what is wrong with the 2600. The fall may have
jarred something loose that can be easily reconnected. OTOH it might
be more serious. It would probably cost $35.00 for an estimate if you
don't get the work done. To be honest you can pick them up for well
under $200.00 on Ebay. I don't think I would put the money into it.

I doubt you could find any professional radio repair service that would
work on the 2600 since it's about 25-years old and there are no factory
parts available for it. Even so, the labor cost could easily exceed the
value of the radio. See if you can find an electronics 'wizard' in your
area that would be willing to check it out for a nominal fee or maybe
for free.

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