blair thompson schrieb:

The FM tuning on my Sony has lost its bearings, but everything else
still works fine. It just bugs me that a function has gone south. A
local techie looked at it for $30, but thought I should probably take
it to a Sony repair facility for further delving into.

It's the usual bad 'lytics, as detailed on my 7600 page. Those early SMD
things must have been pretty crappy. Basically as long as they haven't
leaked and corroded the PCB, this problem is fixable, if a bit of a
pain.

Is it worth it to throw more money at this rig? I bought it new 16
years ago, for $400 Canadian, and have been generally well-satisfied
with the radio, listening mostly to SW, Morse code, etc. Guess it
doesn't really owe me much of anything. But maybe I should be looking
at a rig with newer electronics, etc., probably for less dinero, but
the same overall features

The best portable this size for SSB certainly is the ICF-SW7600GR, as it
has sideband-selectable SSB. Its AM audio, however, should be similarly
depressingly muffled as the 7600G's, and speaker audio almost as
bassless. Were the SW7600 not plagued with the bad caps, it would be a
really decent rig. If you're seriously into SSB stuff, I would suggest
to get a full-blown communications rx.

Stephan
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