Went ahead and ordered the 1003 this morning.
Looking forward to it, since the only radio I've been using for several
years
is an analog am/fm sony cassette walkman.
Have gotten real fond of listening at night.
Art Bell comes on too late here, 1am and I get up at 4am.
Had quite a time finding one, there were only 3 left on ebay, price was
high.
Didn't want to fool with the chinese version.
Universal was out for next 2 months.
And most places were at $100 or thereabouts. CC Crane I think wanted $109.
So I'm happy to have found one for $86 shipped.
Most money I spent on a radio ever, but figure it should be enough for
a casual listener and if we get storms, then we don't have to listen to
storm news all the time.

wrote in message
oups.com...
I own 2 of the 1103's, one purchased in Dec 04 and the other about a
month and a half ago. Absolutely no complaints with either of them.
You can buy a better radio, but not at the sub $50 price that the 1103
goes for or anywhere near that. For more info and personal reviews and
accounts you can check the 1103 group on Yahoo groups.

Good Luck

Mark

"Didn't want to fool with the chinese version. "

It's a nice radio and you will get a lot of good listening. But they
are all chinese...only difference is the label.

"JS" wrote in message
...
Didn't want to fool with the chinese version.
Universal was out for next 2 months.
And most places were at $100 or thereabouts. CC Crane I think wanted $109.
So I'm happy to have found one for $86 shipped.

Well, these radios are all Chinese-made, but some of the American
distributors are offering them under the Kaito badge with the 120 V AC
adapters; plus it's easier to return them to the seller here in the USA in
the unlikely event you'd get a defective piece. The $86 is about as low as
I've heard of for an American distributor's price. I bought mine from Liypn
off eBay for about $45 or so bucks... a great deal, even with relatively
high shipping of $20 (from China)... and it only took a week for delivery to
my address. Hope you enjoy your 1103, I certainly do! It is a nice
portable... nothing else is even close in this price range for the
features/performance.

Jackie

So true. For the price, it can't be beat!




"Buzzygirl" wrote in message
...

"JS" wrote in message
...
Didn't want to fool with the chinese version.
Universal was out for next 2 months.
And most places were at $100 or thereabouts. CC Crane I think wanted
$109.
So I'm happy to have found one for $86 shipped.

Well, these radios are all Chinese-made, but some of the American
distributors are offering them under the Kaito badge with the 120 V AC
adapters; plus it's easier to return them to the seller here in the USA in
the unlikely event you'd get a defective piece. The $86 is about as low as
I've heard of for an American distributor's price. I bought mine from
Liypn
off eBay for about $45 or so bucks... a great deal, even with relatively
high shipping of $20 (from China)... and it only took a week for delivery
to
my address. Hope you enjoy your 1103, I certainly do! It is a nice
portable... nothing else is even close in this price range for the
features/performance.

Jackie

Didn't want to fool with the chinese version.
Universal was out for next 2 months.
And most places were at $100 or thereabouts. CC Crane I think wanted
$109.
So I'm happy to have found one for $86 shipped.

Well, these radios are all Chinese-made

What I meant to say was that I just preferred to get the 120 volt version.
If I was traveling alot, then the degen would have been fine.

, but some of the American
distributors are offering them under the Kaito badge with the 120 V AC
adapters; plus it's easier to return them to the seller here in the USA
in
the unlikely event you'd get a defective piece. The $86 is about as low
as
I've heard of for an American distributor's price. I bought mine from
Liypn
off eBay for about $45 or so bucks... a great deal, even with relatively
high shipping of $20 (from China)... and it only took a week for delivery
to
my address.

Thats a good price, the few left on ebay were $89.


Hope you enjoy your 1103, I certainly do! It is a nice
portable... nothing else is even close in this price range for the
features/performance.

It's nice to have had the http://www.radiointel.com/reviews.htm
site to look at.
I found the reviews easy to read.
Took some time, nonetheless to go through the radios.



Jackie