Nic. Santean schrieb:


Pick your favorite portable and vote.

So at least your question is asked wrong when intended asking people
wich shortwave portable they subjectively *like* best. Sad enough I have
to tell you that...

So PLEASE be more specific what YOU want!

P.S. I do want nothing. I have a Panasonic RF2600 (tabletop) and I am pretty
happy with it. I just want to grasp the state of the art in portable
receivers - without going into any detail.

-- Nic.

Nic. Santean wrote:
So PLEASE be more specific what YOU want!


P.S. I do want nothing. I have a Panasonic RF2600 (tabletop) and I am pretty
happy with it. I just want to grasp the state of the art in portable
receivers - without going into any detail.

-- Nic.



A receiver popularity poll is not going to give you an updateon the
state of the art. If that is what you are looking for, then just ask it.
You may get your answer sooner as 1) people will be reponding to what
you really want, and 2) you won't get labelled as a troll.

Not a lot has changed in the past several years. Synthesized radios have
become less expensive. There is more integration of function that
generally drives costs down. The market is dominated by imports from
China and Taiwan.

Skipping the detail really won't tell you much.

craigm

P.S. Say you want nothing and then adding "I just want" could be confusing.

craigm

P.S. Say you want nothing and then adding "I just want" could be
confusing.

For God's sake, man, take things in their context. I said that I want
nothing from the alternatives which that person was offering.

Please, just bring in your knowledge which will hopefully help the others.
We are not in an IQ contest, or in a show-off. I know that you an all the
other people in this group are darn smart - otherwise I wouldn't bother
asking a question here. So, be yourself and try help the others.

Look, I have something for those interested:

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~nic/radio/radio.shtml

It may be nothing, but at least I try to help. This is the spirit.

Nic. Santean

"Nic. Santean" wrote in message
...
craigm

P.S. Say you want nothing and then adding "I just want" could be
confusing.

For God's sake, man, take things in their context. I said that I want
nothing from the alternatives which that person was offering.

Please, just bring in your knowledge which will hopefully help the others.
We are not in an IQ contest, or in a show-off. I know that you an all the
other people in this group are darn smart - otherwise I wouldn't bother
asking a question here. So, be yourself and try help the others.

Look, I have something for those interested:

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~nic/radio/radio.shtml

It may be nothing, but at least I try to help. This is the spirit.

Nic. Santean



Hi

Yes that is the spirit. This is what makes SW fun and gives it a community
draw. In my personal experience with other SWLers, I found the majority of
them to be smart, comprehendible, logical, responsible and patriotic. Of
course there are those that are Not here for the spirit of radio or lack it.
What can you do?

Thanks for info on your website
Lucky

I would put the RF-2600 immediately behind the RF-2200 for radios in that
category. It doesn't have quite the sensitivity of the RF-2600, but I
really like the digital display and front-panel calibration control. Also
great sound. An excellent, excellent radio. Keep it if you got it.

"Nic. Santean" wrote in message
...
So PLEASE be more specific what YOU want!

P.S. I do want nothing. I have a Panasonic RF2600 (tabletop) and I am
pretty
happy with it. I just want to grasp the state of the art in portable
receivers - without going into any detail.

-- Nic.

Of course I meant it doesn't have quite the sensitivity of the RF-2200

"Unrevealed Source" wrote in message
...
I would put the RF-2600 immediately behind the RF-2200 for radios in that
category. It doesn't have quite the sensitivity of the RF-2600, but I
really like the digital display and front-panel calibration control. Also
great sound. An excellent, excellent radio. Keep it if you got it.

"Nic. Santean" wrote in message
...
So PLEASE be more specific what YOU want!

P.S. I do want nothing. I have a Panasonic RF2600 (tabletop) and I am
pretty
happy with it. I just want to grasp the state of the art in portable
receivers - without going into any detail.

-- Nic.

I happen to own a Panasonic RF 2600 radio which I bought new at a
Service Merchandise store about twenty something years ago.As far as the
performance of the radio is concerned,I rate it about average,certainly
nothing to crow about.On the bottom of the radio there is a jack that
says EP EXT/SP (for an extension speaker,I suppose) I have never used
any of the jacks on the radio before,but about two years after I bought
the radio,the radio would not turn on or light up at all.One day I was
poking around at the jacks on the radio with my fingers and I found that
the above mentioned jack was slightly loose.I poked a piece of plastic
between the metal part of the jack and the plastic casing of the radio
and it worked.But sometimes that tiny bit of plastic wedge will work
loose and the radio will not work again unless I mess around with that
bit of a plastic wedge I put there.As far as me takeing the chassis out
of the radio cabinet,and me not knowing how to repair radios,(unless it
is oviously a wire that needs soldering back together or a screw or nut)
I think my best bet is to leave the radio alone.I think the jack needs
to be tighned up,but there is no way to reach the nut from the front of
the radio.Some of my radios,if I pull the knobs off,there is enough
room,but just barely,I can tighten up those nuts.
cuhulin

"Volker Tonn" wrote in message
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Nic. Santean schrieb:

Hello All,

As the subject shows, my question is "What is the best shortwave portable
ever ?".


Define 'portable 'and 'best'.

My NRD-525 in conjunction with a batterie and antenne for sure makes a
pretty 'fine' portable....
...surely not the 'best' though in whatever regard.


Portable by whom? A baby ? An athletic man?
What size? shirt-pocket-size? Portable in a handbag? Portable on a
trailer?
External antenna connector is a big issue. But how to walk around the
block with a 50ft slinky antenna?

best in portability?
best in batterie consumtion?
best in sensitivity?
best in selectivity?
best in 'ergonomics'?
best in noise floor?
best in features?
best in sound?
best in SSB?
best for broadcast listening?
best for utility and amateur radio?
best in price?

Some of the likes exclude each other. So great selectivity with great
sensitivity allways results in much power consumtion....
Every good analog radio beats a pll-synthesized radio regarding self-made
noise floor
What ergonomicsdo you like best? tuning with up-down knobs or with a dial?
Too many features are a natural enemy of ergonomics.
So there is at least a handful of 'best' portables regarding of what
someone prefers most.
Among those is:
The Sony ICF-2010
The Sony 7600G and GR
The Sony SW77
The Sangean ATS-909
The Drake SW8
The Grundig/Eton SAT800
One of the Degen radios when it comes to the price.....

So PLEASE be more specific what YOU want!



Hiya doing old buddy?

I like your style......the way you mix radio with insanity

Lucky

What is the "Qualification for best"?
TEchnology to dollar ratio?
Strict technical quality?
Greatest impact to a international listening audiance at a time when
SW was the ONLY mediem availale to axis nations? Or during the cold
war?

Yeah I am trolling... but with good cause as there does not seem to be
a lot left on SW to north america in English from world broadcasters.
If I (or you) were bi-lingual or tri-lingual from Asia or
Central/South America I would have a different question or answer.

The best portable for ME was a SONY CRF 5090.
I used this Sony extensively while serving in Southeast Asia. Great
sensitivity, excellent sselectivity and had a dial resoltion for
tuning that was pretty hard too beat for a slide rule tuning dial.
WWV, , Austrailian time signals at 12mhz as well as foreign
broadcaters of know frequency could be retuned pretty acurately. You
could extrapolate to within 25 KHZ with out to much difficulty.
That was before the time of digital readouts and just finding a
frequency plus or minus 100khz was almost unheard of on a portable.
ZenithTrans Oceanics and Juliette World band and others served well
too.

Sorry if this was not quite the direction you wanted the thread to go.
Your question was really pretty open ended!






On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:34:27 -0400, "Nic. Santean"
wrote:

Hello All,

As the subject shows, my question is "What is the best shortwave portable
ever ?".

Nic.