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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:37:31 -0600
Subject: Thought on my Super ATS-909

Not long after I had sent those two pieces of plastic CRAP (I don't even
call them real radios at all.Are y'all listening? Art Bell and George
Noory,,, Watch Out! George Noory,them Ouija Boards are gonna gitcha!)
so-called "radios" BACK to ccrane (Are you listening? Bob Crane)
company,I was listening to Bo Gritz on my shortwave radio one morning
and an old guy phoned in to Bo's radio talk show and he said he had
bought one of those ATS-909 shortwave radios from ccrane company and
when he saw that it was made of plastic,he sent that radio back to
ccrane company.
cuhulin


I was shocked, SHOCKED!, to read that they are making portable radios out of
PLASTIC! Good thing I bought my radios when they were still using lead!

Greg

could you say that again in intelligent english ?

I am not sure if you comprehend that CCrane and Sangean are NOT the
same people. one is in Taiwan and the other is in California.

I already knew ccrane company is located in Fortuna,California (way up
in north California,not far fom the Pacific Ocean and not far from
Oregon) because I ordered both of those radios from my ccrane catalog.I
didn't know the radios are made in Taiwan,but that is NOT why I sent
both radios back to ccrane company.I still SAY ccrane radios are JUNK!
Over rated and over priced JUNK! and I will NOT strike out again at
ccrane company.
cuhulin

At the same time I ordered that first radio,the one with AM/FM/weather
band and two tv bands,from ccrane company,I also ordered one of those
round antennas that has a knob in the middle of it,I paid about $57.00
for that antenna,and I ordered one of those Radiometers,the gadget that
has four little vanes inside of a piece of glass that looks sort of like
a light bulb and the vanes spin around when placed in the sunshine or
under an electric lamp,because I used to own a gadget like that about 55
years ago.That antenna didn't show me **** either.Useing that antenna
with that radio,it wouldn't pick up KVOO Tulsa,Oklahoma (KVOO used to be
on the AM band) any better than some of my other radios.Any good company
keeps records of the products they sell and records of the products
returned for at least ten years in my opinion and if Bob Crane is
reading this rec.radio.shortwave news group (which I doubt he does) he
can damn sure pull up the data from about six or seven years ago when I
bought and I returned every one of the products I bought from ccrane
company,except I did keep my Radiomometer though.When I ordered that
Sangean ATS-909 shortwave radio,I also ordered one of those shortwave
antennas that is nothing more than a piece of wire and a recoil reel
with an alligator clip on one end of the wire.I sent that stuff back to
ccrane company too.There is an old saying,The Customer Is Always Right!
cuhulin

I did NOT like those two Sangean radios I bought from ccrane company and
I sent them back to ccrane company in Fortuna,California.When the two
radios got here,I did see that they were made in Taiwan,but that had no
bearing whatsoever for the reason I sent them back to ccrane company.The
two radios did not perform any better than my old beat up radios I own
and most of my old beat up radios I own,I bought them at places such as
Goodwill and Salvation Army thrift stores,fleamarkets and junk shops and
some of my old beat up radios I own,I bought from a couple of old guys
whom I know here in Jackson,Mississippi.They are always coming up with
old beat up radios and old beat up other kinds of things I like.Nice
try,ccrane company,I tried twice,I struck out twice,I will not strike
out again!
cuhulin

Greg wrote:


I was shocked, SHOCKED!, to read that they are making portable radios out of
PLASTIC! Good thing I bought my radios when they were still using lead!

That's what makes them taste better! Plastic? Too much like fast food.






mike

wrote:

I did NOT like those two Sangean radios I bought from ccrane company and
I sent them back to ccrane company in Fortuna,California.When the two
radios got here,I did see that they were made in Taiwan,but that had no
bearing whatsoever for the reason I sent them back to ccrane company.The
two radios did not perform any better than my old beat up radios I own
and most of my old beat up radios I own,I bought them at places such as
Goodwill and Salvation Army thrift stores,fleamarkets and junk shops and
some of my old beat up radios I own,I bought from a couple of old guys
whom I know here in Jackson,Mississippi.They are always coming up with
old beat up radios and old beat up other kinds of things I like.Nice
try,ccrane company,I tried twice,I struck out twice,I will not strike
out again!
cuhulin


I was thinking of buying from Crane, but I'm not sure I got the right message
from your postings. Would you have been happier with them if they shipped FASTER?





mike

Those old tube type radios are the best,esecially if they have wooden
cabinets and usually they will pick up longer distance AM stations
better too.(I own some tube type radios) Set a plastic radio or a
plastic radio with digital/lights/readouts out in the hot sun or on the
dashboard of your vehicle out in the hot sun and watch them go completly
to RUIN! Let electromagnetic radiation zap tube type radios and they
will stutter along for a while and then come back to life as though
nothing ever happened,just as good as new.Plastic transistors **** isn't
worth a ****! Them Eton plastic radios that some folks were talking
about how nice that plastic looks! BULL****!
cuhulin

Spend your money in any way you wish.
cuhulin