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Well Capt - it is an auction
The bid started at $19.95
The bidders perceive value here (not you I suspect) (Or I for that matter)
but what do we know?
So the current bid is $630
It is called free enterprise
Don't ya luv it?
You really don't want price fixing -- do you?



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KeyBoard In The Wilderness



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Collectors have a whole different set of reasons for buying a radio
than users. Compare the price for that radio with the $600.00 for an
FRG-7, $800.00 for a Sony 6800, $3,000 for a SonyCRF320 or $800.00 for
a Zenith TO. Prices no user would contemplate, but several collectors
would not blink twice at.

The Sony you mentioned was one of many luggable radios in it's time.
It probably priced out lower than but was meant to compete as a
reasonably priced alternative to the Panasonic Rf-5000a, Zenith TO,
Nordmende & Grundig offerings. All were reasonable performing radios
in their time with notably pleasant audio - much mellower than anything
found today. In all cases time will have taken a toll on their
electronics and there's a good chance controls will be noisy, dial
accuracy will be frustrating, plastic started to fade, etc. For my
purposes the Sony would be fun to use for a while, but that's about it.
That there have been 32 bids to date tells me there's more than one
collector that have a different view.


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A friend's dad had a huge collection of receivers from the late 50's
until he died in 1981, and this was one of the portables. The Sony
wasn't great when it was new, let alone now...



Here's something that went for a sane price...not bad.

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&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT


BDK

But,but,but it's 'Made In Japan" Now,that makes it 'Special' don't y'all
just know :{) I have umpteen hundred 'Made In Japan" radios
here.Geeez,boys and girls,I must be sitting on a billion dollars worth
of 'Made In Japan' radios and when I was in Tokio on our eight hour
layover on my way to over yonder,I 'Made' a few 'Made In Japan' wimmins.
cuhulin

I have a few old radios similar to that one.It is true about some of the
electronic parts in radios degrading in performance over the years.I
wonder why? Moisture in the air gradually getting into the parts and
degrading them? I have been collecting old radios since I was a kid,most
of them aren't anything special though.Whenever I would see a radio at
junk shops,fleamarkets,thrift stores and wherever,if it's a radio I
liked and the price was right I would buy it whether it worked or not.I
own a lot of old tube type radios and transistor radios.Some of them do
not work at all,some of them sort of work and some of them work ok.
cuhulin

Vacuum tubes generate heat -- components abhor heat and die
Capacitors have wet gooey stuff in em and dry out.
My solid state TV (less CRT) has been on every day for 15+ years
no heat no die

Then there may be fungus amongst us (;-)
Rodents love paper parts.
And my damn dawg will eat anything including chewy cables.

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KeyBoard In The Wilderness



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I have a few old radios similar to that one.It is true about some of the
electronic parts in radios degrading in performance over the years.I
wonder why? Moisture in the air gradually getting into the parts and
degrading them? I have been collecting old radios since I was a kid,most
of them aren't anything special though.Whenever I would see a radio at
junk shops,fleamarkets,thrift stores and wherever,if it's a radio I
liked and the price was right I would buy it whether it worked or not.I
own a lot of old tube type radios and transistor radios.Some of them do
not work at all,some of them sort of work and some of them work ok.
cuhulin

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Why yes Capt. I would love to explain this to you. This is what we on Earth
call a radio. It is designed to receive radio signals. Radio signals bring
news and entertainment to all corners of the planet and are transmitted by
radio stations. Hope this helps. Take care.

B.H.

My wife and son are both E.E.'s and their explanation is that IC's
begin to degrade slowly as a result of impurituies in the wafer.
Simple components like capacitors dry out and resistors begin to open
up. Wish I knew more, but I can hear what they tell me in the radios
I've owned. I owned one of the comparison radios, the Panasonic
RF5000b. Big beast of a 24 pound radio with four antennas. It was
pretty insensitive by any measure. Sure it would catch the big
nighttime SW's but that was about it. Other radios, such as a Radio
Shack DX150b were still pretty sensitive (and still raspy sounding)
after 25 years, so the rate of degradation isn't a constant.


wrote:
I have a few old radios similar to that one.It is true about some of
the
electronic parts in radios degrading in performance over the years.I
wonder why? Moisture in the air gradually getting into the parts and
degrading them? I have been collecting old radios since I was a
kid,most
of them aren't anything special though.Whenever I would see a radio
at
junk shops,fleamarkets,thrift stores and wherever,if it's a radio I
liked and the price was right I would buy it whether it worked or
not.I
own a lot of old tube type radios and transistor radios.Some of them
do
not work at all,some of them sort of work and some of them work ok.
cuhulin

In April of 2003 I bought a 1948 Willys Jeep from a guy who lives in
Edwards,Mississippi about 13 miles due West of me.The Jeep has an old
Jack & Heintz electric winch mounted on the front of the Jeep.The guys
big dog had chewed completly through both of those big cables on the
winch.
cuhulin