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Superadio II
Picked up a GE Superadio II this morning in about as near to mint condition one
can find, only $2 at one of the local thrift stores. dxAce Michigan USA |
dxAce wrote: Picked up a GE Superadio II this morning in about as near to mint condition one can find, only $2 at one of the local thrift stores. dxAce Michigan USA I just have to ask: Were there any 'wimmins' at that thrift store. :) Steve |
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Yeah, I'd say you got a very good deal. They do bring a pretty penny on
ebay. Steve |
I am a Goodwill store shoppaholic and there are lots of very cute
wimmins at the Goodwill store I go to.They were closed Monday and Tuesday because of Hurricane Katrina.I am thinking I might drive over there now and see if the store is open. cuhulin |
You might want to drive over there just to see if the store is still
there....period. Steve |
"dxAce" wrote in message only $2 at one of the local thrift stores That's what I paid for mine at an estate sale. I liked it so well I sold my Super III in a garage sale for $20. RM~ |
Picked up a Superadio I at a weekend drive in swap meet last year for $1.
Missing the tone knob, broken antenna, and pretty scuffed up... but works as a Superadio should. Amazing the stuff people think is trash... "dxAce" wrote in message ... Picked up a GE Superadio II this morning in about as near to mint condition one can find, only $2 at one of the local thrift stores. |
"Rob Mills" wrote in message news:%YoRe.6206$UI.4240@okepread05... That's what I paid for mine at an estate sale. Forgot to mention that my two dollar Super was a Super I, it looks like it was just removed from the box. RM~ |
Good deal .. Enjoy..
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dxAce wrote:
Picked up a GE Superadio II this morning in about as near to mint condition one can find, only $2 at one of the local thrift stores. dxAce Michigan USA I've always enjoyed mine. And mine even has a sliding dial pointer that is very accurate (the exception rather than the rule with these, I gather). DX aside, it's also one of the best sounding portable radios ever designed for AM (very good on FM too, of course). Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Picked up a GE Superadio II this morning in about as near to mint condition one can find, only $2 at one of the local thrift stores. dxAce Michigan USA Now go tote it. LOL! Just kiddin Steve : ) B.H. |
Haggle them down? Awww,now,dont be like that.Their prices are always
very good.I always flirt with them though. cuhulin |
"m II" wrote in message news:FutRe.212104$9A2.5685@edtnps89... wrote: Haggle them down? Awww,now,dont be like that.Their prices are always very good.I always flirt with them though. So why do you use magnets to make a TV picture look bad in order to cheat them out of their 'always very good' prices? Mind you, with your history of animal abuse, you are capable of anything. I've looked for that original post, but haven't been able to find it. Gotta URL? |
They had already marked $5.00 on the tv set with a magic marker.I paid
the store $5.00 for the tv set.I only mentioned the magnet thingy in passing. cuhulin |
Sometimes the tv set has some heavy shadowry lines moving from the
bottom of the screen to the top of the screen.It was doing that in the store.That is why they had it priced at $5.00.I intend to buy a new HDTV CRT tv set next year.Probally about $700.00 or more,but I will buy it. cuhulin |
Honus wrote:
I've looked for that original post, but haven't been able to find it. Gotta URL? This was funny. Check out the dog adverts on this Cuhulin search page. Coincidence? I think not. http://www.allaudio.org/detail-11193791.html I tried finding the magnet admission, but google seems to be down..at least on this server. I'll try again tomorrow. mike |
Brian Hill wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Picked up a GE Superadio II this morning in about as near to mint condition one can find, only $2 at one of the local thrift stores. dxAce Michigan USA Now go tote it. LOL! I never 'tote'... I 'lug'... dxAce Michigan USA |
Yeah,you keep on trying,inbred beasty boy m II,you just keep on trying.
cuhulin |
It is freaks like you m II,whom are always talking about that crap that
are usually the very ones doing that crap. cuhulin |
Only radios I tote or the radios I buy at the thrift stores and
fleamarkets and junk shops and I tote them home and there they sit. cuhulin |
dxAce wrote: Picked up a GE Superadio II this morning in about as near to mint condition one can find, only $2 at one of the local thrift stores. dxAce Michigan USA Congratulatiuons - that was quite a deal for $2.00 |
That was a great find,dxAce.does the Superadio II work real good? I just
heard on my radio the Sears store (it is about 275 footsteps across Highway 80,South of me at Metrocenter Mall www.metromalljackson.com the Goodwill store is about seven tenths of a mile South of me,a couple of blocks South of Metrocenter Mall) is open today in Jackson. cuhulin |
"Rob Mills" wrote in message news:%YoRe.6206$UI.4240@okepread05... "dxAce" wrote in message only $2 at one of the local thrift stores That's what I paid for mine at an estate sale. I liked it so well I sold my Super III in a garage sale for $20. RM~ Hi Rob So are you saying the GE Super Radio II {2} is the best one GE makes for shortwave?? Can you please elaborate on why the radio impressed you so much? What are the features that make this radio still talked about today? Thanks ahead Lucky |
"Lucky" wrote in message ... "Rob Mills" wrote in message news:%YoRe.6206$UI.4240@okepread05... "dxAce" wrote in message only $2 at one of the local thrift stores That's what I paid for mine at an estate sale. I liked it so well I sold my Super III in a garage sale for $20. RM~ Hi Rob So are you saying the GE Super Radio II {2} is the best one GE makes for shortwave?? Can you please elaborate on why the radio impressed you so much? What are the features that make this radio still talked about today? It's good for BCB AM DX-ing; that's what it's designed for. --Mike L. |
Let me find a Superadio II over there at the Goodwill store for a couple
of dollars and I will buy it too. cuhulin |
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"Lucky" wrote in message ... So are you saying the GE Super Radio II {2} is the best one GE makes for shortwave?? Can you please elaborate on why the radio impressed you so much? What are the features that make this radio still talked about today? I have the Super 1 (7-2880a) and it beat the socks off of my early (I assume it's an early one since I have had it for about 10 yr) Super3. The one pulls in MW stations that the three wasn't even getting. Never use it for FM so can't evaluate the FM side As near as I can tell there are only minor differences between the one and two, the two has a tweeter which the one's do not. The very early one (mine) does not have external antenna connections while the later ones and the two do. I also have Radio Shacks attempt to copy the GE Super and it isn't even in the race, actually it sounds like a radio with a squelch that is set quite deep, it's just another nice sounding portable that's good for local use only. RM~ |
I dont remember if it was the Superadio I or the Superadio II,but the
Sears store at Metocenter Mall just across Highway 80 from me used to sell them.I think it was the Superadio I's that Sears used to sell.I sure do wish now I had bought one of them.I dont remember the price tag on them,I think it was somewhere around about thirty five dollars. cuhulin |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Brian Hill wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Picked up a GE Superadio II this morning in about as near to mint condition one can find, only $2 at one of the local thrift stores. dxAce Michigan USA Now go tote it. LOL! I never 'tote'... I 'lug'... dxAce Michigan USA That's a big 10-4 Ace. B.H. |
Rob Mills wrote:
"Lucky" wrote in message ... So are you saying the GE Super Radio II {2} is the best one GE makes for shortwave?? Can you please elaborate on why the radio impressed you so much? What are the features that make this radio still talked about today? I have the Super 1 (7-2880a) and it beat the socks off of my early (I assume it's an early one since I have had it for about 10 yr) Super3. The one pulls in MW stations that the three wasn't even getting. Never use it for FM so can't evaluate the FM side As near as I can tell there are only minor differences between the one and two, the two has a tweeter which the one's do not. The very early one (mine) does not have external antenna connections while the later ones and the two do. I also have Radio Shacks attempt to copy the GE Super and it isn't even in the race, actually it sounds like a radio with a squelch that is set quite deep, it's just another nice sounding portable that's good for local use only. RM~ As I recall, GE SupeRadio is a superhet. RS's attempt is a TRF. There will be substantial differences in DX performance. About 30 years ago, Popular Electronics had an article about an AM radio on a single chip. The chip is a ZN414 (three leads, power, common and RF in), at the time available from Circuit Specialists, Tempe, AZ, and with a tuning stage added, produced a very nice tuner/preamp for a TRF receiver. I bought three of them for a pittance, and built one up in a previously gutted Charles Freshman case bought at an auction as part of a lot of TRF's my mother in law paid $1 for. Using the tuning coils and caps which were attached to the front panel, and a piece of breadboard to hold the chip and battery, I built up a solidstate TRF in a 1924 Freshman case. (the other 8 radios have been restored over the years, and work daily, btw) The sensitivity was far more than I expected out of this chip. With only the tuning coils in the case, I got all the locals, and many stations at considerable distance. From my location in St Louis, I got WGN, and WLS, as well as several of the regional station in and aroud the midwest. Of course this was before NRSC-II, so stations were still transmitting full bandwidth. KMOX on Sunday nights did a couple of pop music shows. And the audio was magnificent. Not so much, with station specs today. With a random length of wire antenna, the band came alive. But selectivity was too wide to make much sense out of most of it. Even a wideband superhet like my McKay-Dymek AM-5 could separate more signals from the mess than this ZN414. But on locals, like the RS TRF Super Radio, it was, and still is, a very pleasant and solid performing receiver. For those who will doubtless ask, ZN414 has been discontinued. Some years it was upgraded to ZN414A, which lowered noise, increased gain. But that, too has been supplanted by yet another chip that's still current, though the designation escapes me. Do a websearch for ZN414, you'll come up with some interesting results. The current chip is available from Circuit Specialists. |
D Peter Maus ) writes: Rob Mills wrote: "Lucky" wrote in message ... So are you saying the GE Super Radio II {2} is the best one GE makes for shortwave?? Can you please elaborate on why the radio impressed you so much? What are the features that make this radio still talked about today? I have the Super 1 (7-2880a) and it beat the socks off of my early (I assume it's an early one since I have had it for about 10 yr) Super3. The one pulls in MW stations that the three wasn't even getting. Never use it for FM so can't evaluate the FM side As near as I can tell there are only minor differences between the one and two, the two has a tweeter which the one's do not. The very early one (mine) does not have external antenna connections while the later ones and the two do. I also have Radio Shacks attempt to copy the GE Super and it isn't even in the race, actually it sounds like a radio with a squelch that is set quite deep, it's just another nice sounding portable that's good for local use only. RM~ As I recall, GE SupeRadio is a superhet. RS's attempt is a TRF. There will be substantial differences in DX performance. I don't think this is true. While TRF, ie Tuned Radio Frequency, was used to denote a receiver with a couple of tuned amplifier stages going into a detector stage decades ago, I think the TRF in the Radio Shack radio was a marketing thing. At least the term. I was always under the impression that the TRF was indeed a superheterodyne design, but unlike many/most portable radios, had a stage of tuned amplification ahead of the mixer, and that Tuned RF stage is what the name refers to. For that level of radio, it was something relatively unique. It wasn't unique to receivers that were primarily shortwave receivers, and it wasn't unique for car radios, but most lower end am receivers, certainly portables and maybe even a lot of home base receivers (the famed All American Five had not stage ahead of the mixer for isntance) did not have that extra stage. Done well, the extra stage would help reject images, and improve sensitivity. About 30 years ago, Popular Electronics had an article about an AM radio on a single chip. The chip is a ZN414 (three leads, power, common and RF in), at the time available from Circuit Specialists, Tempe, AZ, and with a tuning stage added, produced a very nice tuner/preamp for a TRF receiver. The point of the ZN414, and the later MK484, is that by having good AGC there is vast improvement over a what one would expect for a single tuned circuit receiver. In effect, turn down the gain when a decent signal is there, and as long as adjacent signals were weaker to start off, they are now way down. I wonder how you used it as a preamp, given that the design doesn't really make for using it for anything but a TRF receiver. Only three pins, so the output comes after the detector stage. Michael |
About a year or a little less ago,I saw an article at www.gizmodo.com
about a radar system had been created on a chip about the size of a U.S.coin.I suppose a search on the internet might turn up something about that. cuhulin |
Michael Black wrote:
D Peter Maus ) writes: Rob Mills wrote: "Lucky" wrote in message ... So are you saying the GE Super Radio II {2} is the best one GE makes for shortwave?? Can you please elaborate on why the radio impressed you so much? What are the features that make this radio still talked about today? I have the Super 1 (7-2880a) and it beat the socks off of my early (I assume it's an early one since I have had it for about 10 yr) Super3. The one pulls in MW stations that the three wasn't even getting. Never use it for FM so can't evaluate the FM side As near as I can tell there are only minor differences between the one and two, the two has a tweeter which the one's do not. The very early one (mine) does not have external antenna connections while the later ones and the two do. I also have Radio Shacks attempt to copy the GE Super and it isn't even in the race, actually it sounds like a radio with a squelch that is set quite deep, it's just another nice sounding portable that's good for local use only. RM~ As I recall, GE SupeRadio is a superhet. RS's attempt is a TRF. There will be substantial differences in DX performance. I don't think this is true. While TRF, ie Tuned Radio Frequency, was used to denote a receiver with a couple of tuned amplifier stages going into a detector stage decades ago, I think the TRF in the Radio Shack radio was a marketing thing. At least the term. I was always under the impression that the TRF was indeed a superheterodyne design, but unlike many/most portable radios, had a stage of tuned amplification ahead of the mixer, and that Tuned RF stage is what the name refers to. For that level of radio, it was something relatively unique. It wasn't unique to receivers that were primarily shortwave receivers, and it wasn't unique for car radios, but most lower end am receivers, certainly portables and maybe even a lot of home base receivers (the famed All American Five had not stage ahead of the mixer for isntance) did not have that extra stage. Done well, the extra stage would help reject images, and improve sensitivity. About 30 years ago, Popular Electronics had an article about an AM radio on a single chip. The chip is a ZN414 (three leads, power, common and RF in), at the time available from Circuit Specialists, Tempe, AZ, and with a tuning stage added, produced a very nice tuner/preamp for a TRF receiver. The point of the ZN414, and the later MK484, is that by having good AGC there is vast improvement over a what one would expect for a single tuned circuit receiver. In effect, turn down the gain when a decent signal is there, and as long as adjacent signals were weaker to start off, they are now way down. I wonder how you used it as a preamp, given that the design doesn't really make for using it for anything but a TRF receiver. Only three pins, so the output comes after the detector stage. There is an AF gain stage before output on the chip. So only a line level AF amp is necessary to drive the loudspeaker. It drives a high impedance headset quite nicely. When I first put it together I used a pair of Brush Clevites. Later I used my first pair or HD414's which were also 2k A single AA standard Eveready would last 90 days 24/7 at the time. A Duracell more than twice that. |
D Peter Maus ) writes: Michael Black wrote: I wonder how you used it as a preamp, given that the design doesn't really make for using it for anything but a TRF receiver. Only three pins, so the output comes after the detector stage. There is an AF gain stage before output on the chip. So only a line level AF amp is necessary to drive the loudspeaker. It drives a high impedance headset quite nicely. When I first put it together I used a pair of Brush Clevites. Later I used my first pair or HD414's which were also 2k Sorry, I now see I misread the part about a preamp. On first reading, "produced a very nice tuner/preamp for a TRF receiver" came to me as you used it ahead of a TRF receiver. Michael |
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