"junius" wrote in message
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Agreed. To name a few advantages of the '7600GR over the S350:
'7600GR provides single sideband and synchronous selectable sideband
reception. Memories. No drift. Direct frequency entry. Etc etc.

wrote:
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

Where has this receiver been offered new for $100? Cheapest I've seen it
lately is around $150.

Jackie

Buzzygirl wrote:

"junius" wrote in message
ups.com..
Agreed. To name a few advantages of the '7600GR over the S350:
'7600GR provides single sideband and synchronous selectable sideband
reception. Memories. No drift. Direct frequency entry. Etc etc.

wrote:
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

Where has this receiver been offered new for $100? Cheapest I've seen it
lately is around $150.

Jackie

7600GR's show up at $100 occasionally when a retailer wants to close them out.

--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

From time to time, Amazon and J&R Music World offer them on sale for
about $129.00. Keep checking their sites.

I bought two more of them (giving me a total of five) from Amazon this
past December for $129.15 each with free shipping.

While not "perfect" (what radio is?), it's definitely the best overall
small portable SW receiver available right now. It would be ideal for a
child as she will never outgrow it.

Best,

Joe

Joe Analssandrini wrote:

From time to time, Amazon and J&R Music World offer them on sale for
about $129.00. Keep checking their sites.

I bought two more of them (giving me a total of five) from Amazon this
past December for $129.15 each with free shipping.

While not "perfect" (what radio is?), it's definitely the best overall
small portable SW receiver available right now. It would be ideal for a
child as she will never outgrow it.

Best,

Joe

You can add the audio outputs and reduce the internal noise
on a weak station. On the other hand, you increase the frequency
of losing sync lock on a weak station, so it may not pay.

Curiously, the audio phase is reversed in the 7600G (no R) so you can't
add one of those in the mix usefully.

A better approach costwise is buy a better synch detector'd receiver,
like the old 2010, for weak stations, of course.


I'd add the R8B but I don't know that it's better costwise than
14 7600GR's by experience.

--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.