On 17 Aug 2005 08:00:23 -0400, Bob wrote:


I'm searching for the perfect pocket radio.

* Cover AM/FM/SW
* Digital tuning
* Smaller than 4" x 3" x 1"
* Weigh less than 10oz
* Use AA batteries
* Std 3.5mm stereo headphone jack
* Offer SSB
* Excellent & rugged "build" quality
* Excellent performance on *all* bands
* Priced less than $100
* I'd also like weather and TV (VHF & UHF) coverage.

A few candidates that I've come across and with the exception of
weather/TV for which I'd pay a little more where they fall short of my
criteria are;

Grundig YB400PE -
* Expensive and big

Grundig YB550PE -
* Still too big and no SSB

Eton E100 -
* No SSB and not great performance

Yaesu VR120
* Expensive, no SSB and terrible AM/FM


And what's up with the manufactures that seem similar? Eton & Grundig &
Tecsun? Kaito & Sangean?

Thanx,
Bob


Sangean ATS-606A is what I schlep around. No SSB. No Weather. No TV
(BTW, I've never seen a TV band radio with UHF. I also have a little
hand-held Casio TV).

"David" wrote in message
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On 17 Aug 2005 08:00:23 -0400, Bob wrote:


I'm searching for the perfect pocket radio.

* Cover AM/FM/SW
* Digital tuning
* Smaller than 4" x 3" x 1"
* Weigh less than 10oz
* Use AA batteries
* Std 3.5mm stereo headphone jack
* Offer SSB
* Excellent & rugged "build" quality
* Excellent performance on *all* bands
* Priced less than $100
* I'd also like weather and TV (VHF & UHF) coverage.

A few candidates that I've come across and with the exception of
weather/TV for which I'd pay a little more where they fall short of my
criteria are;

Grundig YB400PE -
* Expensive and big

Grundig YB550PE -
* Still too big and no SSB

Eton E100 -
* No SSB and not great performance

Yaesu VR120
* Expensive, no SSB and terrible AM/FM


And what's up with the manufactures that seem similar? Eton & Grundig &
Tecsun? Kaito & Sangean?

Thanx,
Bob


Sangean ATS-606A is what I schlep around. No SSB. No Weather. No TV
(BTW, I've never seen a TV band radio with UHF. I also have a little
hand-held Casio TV).

Which Casio do you have David? I have a EV-670 3" that I got off Ebay. Not
too bad, though it dosent like the cold much.

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:47:37 -0500, "MnMikew"
wrote:


Which Casio do you have David? I have a EV-670 3" that I got off Ebay. Not
too bad, though it dosent like the cold much.


I have the bottom of the line one. I'm a TV engineer and I just use
it to make sure my stations are on the air. It lives on my front
seat. If my employer would buy it, I'd have a demod with a drop-down
LCD panel. But since they don't, it's this:

http://www.epinions.com/_Casio_TV970__619519

"David" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:47:37 -0500, "MnMikew"
wrote:


Which Casio do you have David? I have a EV-670 3" that I got off Ebay.
Not
too bad, though it dosent like the cold much.


I have the bottom of the line one. I'm a TV engineer and I just use
it to make sure my stations are on the air. It lives on my front
seat. If my employer would buy it, I'd have a demod with a drop-down
LCD panel. But since they don't, it's this:

http://www.epinions.com/_Casio_TV970__619519

I watching Ebay for one of these
http://www.epinions.com/_Casio_EV4500__619514

MnMikew wrote:


I watching Ebay for one of these
http://www.epinions.com/_Casio_EV4500__619514




You might also look at the Trinity CT-V710.

It's a 7 inch wide screen LCD with a built in rechargeable battery.

In article ,
David wrote:

(BTW, I've never seen a TV band radio with UHF. I also have a little
hand-held Casio TV).

Radio Shack had one, but they fell afoul of the ECPA (Electronics
Communication Privacy Act). And/Or Radio Shack's cell phone
marketing.

AMPS (the old analog cell phone system) was a great way to determine
business ethics. Ask the salesman if the phone system was private
and watch him lie his ass off. Analog cell phones used former TV
channels and the same modulation as TV, so any old TV set could pick
some or all of them on channels 70-83. And a UHF band TV sound receiver
would, too.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:49:10 GMT, (Mark Zenier)
wrote:


In article ,
David wrote:

(BTW, I've never seen a TV band radio with UHF. I also have a little
hand-held Casio TV).

Radio Shack had one, but they fell afoul of the ECPA (Electronics
Communication Privacy Act). And/Or Radio Shack's cell phone
marketing.

AMPS (the old analog cell phone system) was a great way to determine
business ethics. Ask the salesman if the phone system was private
and watch him lie his ass off. Analog cell phones used former TV
channels and the same modulation as TV, so any old TV set could pick
some or all of them on channels 70-83. And a UHF band TV sound receiver
would, too.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)
You can also listen to analog 800 phones 21.4 mHz below the actual
phone call on many scanners.

I love to listen in on juicey dirt.
cuhulin

In article ,
David wrote:
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:49:10 GMT, (Mark Zenier)
wrote:


In article ,
David wrote:

(BTW, I've never seen a TV band radio with UHF. I also have a little
hand-held Casio TV).

Radio Shack had one, but they fell afoul of the ECPA (Electronics
Communication Privacy Act). And/Or Radio Shack's cell phone
marketing.

AMPS (the old analog cell phone system) was a great way to determine
business ethics. Ask the salesman if the phone system was private
and watch him lie his ass off. Analog cell phones used former TV
channels and the same modulation as TV, so any old TV set could pick
some or all of them on channels 70-83. And a UHF band TV sound receiver
would, too.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)
You can also listen to analog 800 phones 21.4 mHz below the actual
phone call on many scanners.


There was also the trick of feeding a 45 MHz signal into a TV set to
add a pseudo-carrier into the IF amp, so that you could use the fine
tuning (and the inter-carrier sound system) to pick up most everything.

I did that a couple of times and found that your typical cell-phone call
makes the Voice of (North) Korea sound interesting in comparison.
Voyerism is boring.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Sometimes I hear some gals and guys dialing a message service on my
scanner radio.
cuhulin