Nice set. Sensitive. Good sync detector. Drawbacks lay primarily in
the chuffing that accompanies tuning wheel/disc use and the horrible FM
reception.

Some folks don't find this size particularly portable; I guess b/c
we've become so accustomed to more compact portable sets. But such
compact sets don't offer the performance of an SW77.

Sure, it'll be more portable than your R72. And it's good on
batteries/cells. While not ideal for SSB reception, it's certainly one
of the better portables for such applications (50 Hz tuning
increments).

There're loads of threads about the SW77 in the rec.radio.shortwave
archives:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...rch+this+group

You can see here where someone compared their SW77 against the R75:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...7b2ac931ddd57a

Anyway, loads of info on the archives. Do check it out.