Yes, those older Yaesu's can be a lot of fun. I looked long and hard
at a used 7700 before deciding on a Kenwood R5000 (new) about 14 years
ago. I owned the Sears version of the FRG-7 for about a year and
enjoyed it a lot. Not as fast as a digital receiver to tune around in,
but enjoyable and a good performer nontheless.

My favorite of the so-called massproduced pre-digital receivers is the
Kenwood R-300. Looked like it should have tubes, but it didn't. The
xtal marker took some getting used to and it drifted some, but it was a
challenge worth overcoming.


Lucky wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
how can a mass produced commodity be a collectors item ? a
collectors
item should be something that was not produced in large numbers or
is
old and many are not available any more. the FRG-7 is very common
as is
the 7700. and they are not old at all.

SX-88, that is an example of a collectors rig.


Not true. A collectors item is anything a collector of those items
thinks it
is. To me, the FRG-7700 is one radio in my collection of radios. They
may
have been mass produced, but they are over 20 year old and the supply
is
dwindling every week. To each his own...

Lucky