He's referring to the Eton E1, I'd gather from his description.

Simon Mason wrote:

1700 presets? Why?



If you've ever suffered the pain and anguish of only 1699 presets you
wouldn't be asking why. Hardly a day goes by when I don't regret my
earlier decision.

If only I had that *one* extra preset option, my life would be complete.






mike

David wrote:
The best portable since the icf 2010!
Reviewer: EricB from Kalamazoo, mich on Sat Nov 05 08:48:25 EST 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

This radio has it all! It has every high tech reception aid available
I.e. sync detector that really works, passband tuning,and three band
widths. As a swler for over 20 years the only thing that could do
better is a table top that would cost you over $1000.00. As for all
other aspects of the radio it does fantastic! Also the xm is thrown in
to boot. the only thing i found was the external antenna connetion
gets warm not very but noticeable. Over all the radio gives you great
bang for your buck! I use mine every day with great results!
www.circuitcity.com

Thank you David. I'd say best portable ever & I've been DXing since
1965. Have heard on it many Latin Americans & Africans below 8 MHZ with
just the whip. And on MW (AM BCB), during Oct, had audio on 28
Trans-Atlantic frequencies- Europe, Africa & Middle East, using the
small Radio Shack loop. George S., MN

It's for real, it's the best portable ever, 4 3/8 stars in the 2006
Passport to World Band Radio. Over 1,700 sold in the last 4 months &
the factory is stll trying to catch up on back orders. George S, MN

I think even you might like it. Some of the stuff heard with just the
whip: Zambia-4910 0247, 4965(tent) & 6165 0247; Tanzania-11735
1800-1815 Eng nx by M; Uganda (tentative)-4976; Swaziland-4775 s/on
0430 & other freqs; R. Quito-4919; Liberia-4760; Ghana on 4915 S-9+;
also on 4915 Rdif Macapa; Ec. Guinea-5005 (tent), Burkina Faso
(assumed) w/French 5030; So Afr 3220 & a whole lot more. 73, George S.,
MN

Eton E1, best portable ever for serious DXing, got mine 4 months ago.
George S., MN

I think 111 memory pages each have country name for up to 10
frequencies, plus there are 500 alpha-numeric frequencies where one
could enter station & time or whatever, & on those the settings are
remembered like sync on/off, AM, LSB or USB, bandwidth, even PBT
offset. I actually hope to use most of the presets, they stay stored
indefinitely. George S., MN

Very nice, indeed. Thanks for the info, George.

Junius

wrote:

Eton E1, best portable ever for serious DXing, got mine 4 months ago.

No one does 'serious DXing' with a portable.

Please, stop making me laugh.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:
wrote:

Eton E1, best portable ever for serious DXing, got mine 4 months ago.

No one does 'serious DXing' with a portable.

Please, stop making me laugh.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I got Kampuchea, Columbia and Deutche Welle in one week (on cassette)
on a Rat Shack Sangean clone ten years ago just doing casual SWL.

Too bad it was stolen shortly afterward with the tape.