Ham Radio Outlet has Grundig s350 for 100 bucks. I am thinking to buy
it for my young 11yo niece. She likes radios. I gave her a
Hallicrafters boatanchor tabletop but her daddy won't put up an
antenna.

Is that a good radio for 100 bucks?

Regards,
NEO

"N9NEO" wrote in message
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Ham Radio Outlet has Grundig s350 for 100 bucks. I am thinking to
buy
it for my young 11yo niece. She likes radios. I gave her a
Hallicrafters boatanchor tabletop but her daddy won't put up an
antenna.

Is that a good radio for 100 bucks?

It's got nice sound, but it's main drawback is that
it's a single conversion radio, so beware of images.
The more recent version seems to have fixed some
of the stability issues, which was another big
problem in years past.

--Mike L.

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"N9NEO" wrote:

Ham Radio Outlet has Grundig s350 for 100 bucks. I am thinking to buy
it for my young 11yo niece. She likes radios. I gave her a
Hallicrafters boatanchor tabletop but her daddy won't put up an
antenna.

Is that a good radio for 100 bucks?

Sounds like a good choice. Use its whip or a short wire external
antenna. A big antenna will generate strong signals on most bands and
she will see plenty of images.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

I purchased a Tecsun BCL 3000 last fall which is much the same as the Eton
350 Deluxe except it has a smaller speaker. I'm very happy with it,
although it's used more for AM DX. It's compact enough to leave on the
kitchen table and it gets used daily.

Today I saw the red Eton 350 Deluxe model on sale at The Source for $129 CDN
and the Grundig 350 selling for $99 CDN.


"N9NEO" wrote in message
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Ham Radio Outlet has Grundig s350 for 100 bucks. I am thinking to buy
it for my young 11yo niece. She likes radios. I gave her a
Hallicrafters boatanchor tabletop but her daddy won't put up an
antenna.

Is that a good radio for 100 bucks?

Regards,
NEO

I recently picked up a red Eton S350DL (which appears to be an
upgraded version of the Grundig S350) on ebay for $110.79 total,
including shipping. There's one even now (item # 5863040259) listed
at $114.99 plus $12.99 shipping. They list at about $150.00.

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:38:13 -0600, "homepc"
wrote:

I purchased a Tecsun BCL 3000 last fall which is much the same as the Eton
350 Deluxe except it has a smaller speaker. I'm very happy with it,
although it's used more for AM DX. It's compact enough to leave on the
kitchen table and it gets used daily.

Today I saw the red Eton 350 Deluxe model on sale at The Source for $129 CDN
and the Grundig 350 selling for $99 CDN.


"N9NEO" wrote in message
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Ham Radio Outlet has Grundig s350 for 100 bucks. I am thinking to buy
it for my young 11yo niece. She likes radios. I gave her a
Hallicrafters boatanchor tabletop but her daddy won't put up an
antenna.

Is that a good radio for 100 bucks?

Regards,
NEO

Thanks everybody for comments. I will probably change my mind ten
times before I eventually buy anything. Seems like the Degen might be
a likely candidate.

I found a pdf file from Phil that you might like to take a look at.

It's called "Phil's Portable radio guide" and has the kind of info to
make a decision. You will be surprised what he finds to be the best
radios. Maybe you will just have to buy another radio after reading
this.

73
Bob
N9NEO

If you was planning on at first spending about $100.00 for a Shortwave
radio,I think it is hard to beat spending that amount of money for a new
Sony 7600 GR radio.The best in it's class for the money.
cuhulin

N9NEO wrote:

Is that a good radio for 100 bucks?

Hmmmm, well, if given the option a second time, I probably wouldn't buy
it for $100, even if the newer ones are more stable than the early
model I picked up. The major plus is that it's quite sensitive. I
don't particularly care for all of the images on this set. As far as
this type of radio (analog w/digital readout) goes, I prefer my ol'
Panasonic RF-2600 and 2900 (admittedly these two models, as well,
suffer from some image problems). The S350 is excellent on batteries.
By and large, the audio is pretty decent on the S350, although mine
rarely remains stationary on a SW frequency for long. I do use the
S350 a lot for FM listening, for which it's fairly decent.
This thing seems to have been designed for those who have some
nostalgia for old portables like the two Panasonics mentioned above.
Would an 11 year old go for it? I honestly don't have any idea. But
all the best in making your decision.

junius

Extremely sensitive radio for the money. I bought mine new via Ebay for $60.

"N9NEO" wrote in message
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Is that a good radio for 100 bucks?

I went for the Degen 1107 on Ebay, I think about 54bucks shipped from
China. Very good writeup on the radiointel.com site so what the heck.

73
Bob
N9NEO