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

I'm afraid you're going to have shop for clothes with bigger pockets.
No pocket radio that I know of will do all this.

Steve

Steve is quite correct on this.

You might consider inflating your budget considerably and going with
either the Sony ICF-SW07 or ICF-SW100S, particularly if size is an
overriding concern.

Can't think of anything of this size class that's going to have weather
& TV while at the same time giving good performance on the SW bands.

"* Excellent & rugged "build" quality"

Well, the SW100S build quality, while very professional, is not
something that you can bang around alot... especially with the cover
open. Yes, it's probably 3 times the $100 price he's looking for...

This is one of the reasons I keep on thinking about something like the
Degen DE-1105, which is $60 (incl international shipping on ebay) .
I'd miss the syncronous detection I have on my SW100S... I don't use
SSB much, so I wouldn't miss that.

Agreed, the SW100S would fail on the "rugged build" factor, as would
the SW07. Bob will need to prioritize from among these various
criteria, since he can't have it all...

Before acquiring the SW07, I used to carry a 606A around quite
frequently. It's a reasonably priced radio with decent performance,
although it's a tad larger (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 1 1/4) than what Bob is
looking for and, as noted by David, lacking in SSB.

www.shop.com I saw an AM/FM/Shortwave portable radio there for $731.34
(seven hundred and thirty one dollars and thirty four cents) (for that
kind of money,it better! be a d..n good radio) (too rich for my blood)
But WAIT!,you save about one hundred and thirty one dollars! Sounds like
that coon on tv pedaling that oxyclean (phoney crap!) stuff and you can
hear him all the way to the Moon and back.
cuhulin

In article .com,
jamulc wrote:
Steve is quite correct on this.

You might consider inflating your budget considerably and going with
either the Sony ICF-SW07 or ICF-SW100S, particularly if size is an
overriding concern.

Can't think of anything of this size class that's going to have weather
& TV while at the same time giving good performance on the SW bands.

Sangean ATS-636 ... well ... if they ever decide to manufacture it.

Stay away from Sangean's,,, the front panels on them are no good.Stay
away from Tiny Tenna's too,they never work at all.
cuhulin

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:14:26 -0500, wrote:

Stay away from Sangean's,,, the front panels on them are no good.Stay
away from Tiny Tenna's too,they never work at all.
cuhulin

How about a Radio Shack DX-399?

I like the 1 kHz fine tune. Very handy (PLL killed AM radio, IMHO).

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1889

I do own one PLL radio.Sony AM/FM model number SRF-M40W radio I bought
brand new,it runs on two AA batteries and I also own a Sony
AM/FM/cassete radio I bought brand new,model number WM-AF604/BF604
radio,the radio runs on one AA battery,it is a very nice little
AM/FM/cassete radio and useing earbuds with it,(neither of the two Sony
radios have a built in speaker) and Dolby,it puts out terrific sound and
I own many,many other older Sony Radios too.Sony makes great things,so
does Casio.
cuhulin