Sony's ICF-SW07 is the company's current flagship shortwave receiver.
Performance-wise, it's really not appreciably different from the
'SW7600GR, in my opinion (the small size is nice, however).
Since neither the ICF-SW07 nor the SW7600GR is quite in the same class
as the '2010 or 'SW77, I think you'd do well to look at the Eton E1.
Admittedly, it's on the higher end of the price scale where portables
are concerned (although not that much higher than the 'SW77 back when
it was sold new). Price aside, however, if the '2010 is the type of
radio you're looking for (high performance, full featured portable) and
you're looking to buy new, then the E1 is about the only option out
there. And, thankfully, it seems to be a very nice performer,
according the buzz out there.

junius

E1 review here

http://www.radiointel.com/review-etone1.htm

Ther is also one up there by Dr Phil, in PDF Format

I guess Sony could start reproducing the Sony 2010's again if they
wanted to,,,, assuming parts are still available,and I believe they
are.Sony could dress them up in a new plastic dress though and perhaps
add one or two other features.The Sony 2020's perhaps?
cuhulin

- Easier for someone to build a better box than reproduce 20 year old
technology IMHO..

www.devilfinder.com History of Watkins Johnson Radios

I don't see how any Radios can be better than Watkins Johnson
Radios,regardless of price.
cuhulin

I don't see how any Radios can be better than Watkins Johnson
Radios,regardless of price.
cuhulin

The Harris RF-series get very high marks. I have been thinking about
getting an RF-550 for awhile now. It wouldn't be a portable, alas...
;-)

Bruce Jensen

I like big radios with lots of breathing room in them.
cuhulin

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:01:02 -0500, wrote:

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I don't see how any Radios can be better than Watkins Johnson
Radios,regardless of price.
cuhulin

http://radio.tentec.com/Commercial/RX340

In article ,
wrote:
I guess Sony could start reproducing the Sony 2010's again if they
wanted to,,,, assuming parts are still available,and I believe they
are.Sony could dress them up in a new plastic dress though and perhaps
add one or two other features.The Sony 2020's perhaps?

Not likely. The 2010 was an odd design. Sony had dropped the ICF-2001
design in favor of the smaller ICF-2002. When they finaly realized that
the 100's of AM-Stereo receivers they were selling a year would never
use up their supply of decoder chips, they looked for an alternate
solution.

What they came up with was the ICF-2010. It was a much improved ICF-2001,
with the AM stereo decoder chip used as a sync detector. A brilliant idea,
they ICF-2010 sold like hot cakes when it first came out (around 1986-87)
and was still sold well into this decade.

However they eventualy ran out of chips. To make a replacement would require
the development of a new sync detector chip. This would push the price of
a 2020 as you called it well over $500 a unit.

Actualy at that price it would be a bargain, I paid close to $400 for a
2010, air freighted from Japan before they were available in the U.S. Of
that over $350 was for the receiver in 1987 dollars. In 2005 dollars, it
would be a lot more.

How many people would buy a radio at that price? Certainly enough to
make it the talk of this newsgroup. But would it be enough to pay
of the development costs?

Geoff.


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Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

However they eventualy ran out of chips. To make a replacement would require
the development of a new sync detector chip. This would push the price of
a 2020 as you called it well over $500 a unit.



I don't buy that story. They could run another lot of the chips if the
process was still available, or use a newer chip like the one in the 7600GR.

There are other components that may not have been available. But Sony
has a suitable sync detector chip still in production.

craigm