I don't really need to know which is best, but I'd love to liven up the
group a little.

I've researched this question, just out of curiosity, and seem to
detect a vague consensus that the Satellit 700 was probably the best of
the line. I haven't used the Satellit 700, so I can't offer an opinion,
but I'd be curious to know whether others agree or not. The 700s are
always available on ebay, and I have found myself tempted at times.

Steve

Depends on whether you consider the 800 to be a portable.

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I don't really need to know which is best, but I'd love to liven up the
group a little.

I've researched this question, just out of curiosity, and seem to
detect a vague consensus that the Satellit 700 was probably the best of
the line. I haven't used the Satellit 700, so I can't offer an opinion,
but I'd be curious to know whether others agree or not. The 700s are
always available on ebay, and I have found myself tempted at times.

Steve

I was actually thinking about "real" Grundigs, but sure, throw the 800
into the mix.

Steve

My favorite was the TR-6001 (Satellit 210), closely followed by the Satellit
3400. These were the last of their radios that used the turret bandswitch on
the SW bands.
The 3400 improved upon earlier designs by using dual-gate MOSFETS for the RF
amplifier and the 1st mixer on the SW ranges. In addition to this, a 2MHz
crystal filter was used at the 1st I.F. on the SW ranges.
Another thing that was used was a Variometer that tracked along with the
main tuning capacitor on the LW/MW/SW1 ranges to provide additional RF
selectivity. Most of the coils are wound with Litz wire, which gives the
coils a very high Q.
Polypropolyne capacitors were used in the audio stages, giving this radio
quite a good sound.
When I opened up the Satellit 700, it looks like they got away from this
type of design, instead, using some sort of Philips? radio chip. Not a bad
thing........the AOR7030 radios have been using a Philips TDA1572 as their
2nd I.F. subsystem since the beginning.

Pete

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I was actually thinking about "real" Grundigs, but sure, throw the 800
into the mix.

Steve

On 13 Aug 2005 08:27:14 -0700, wrote:

I don't really need to know which is best, but I'd love to liven up the
group a little.

I've researched this question, just out of curiosity, and seem to
detect a vague consensus that the Satellit 700 was probably the best of
the line. I haven't used the Satellit 700, so I can't offer an opinion,
but I'd be curious to know whether others agree or not. The 700s are
always available on ebay, and I have found myself tempted at times.

Steve

I'd have to go with the 650. It sells for more used than it cost new.

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/526

wrote:
I don't really need to know which is best, but I'd love to liven up the
group a little.

I've researched this question, just out of curiosity, and seem to
detect a vague consensus that the Satellit 700 was probably the best of
the line. I haven't used the Satellit 700, so I can't offer an opinion,
but I'd be curious to know whether others agree or not. The 700s are
always available on ebay, and I have found myself tempted at times.

Steve

I owned a Satellit 500 and loved it even though there was no selectable
sideband sync detector. When the Satellit 700 came out, I got one,
sent it back, and got a second one. I found the Satellit 500 to be
BETTER than the 700, even though the 700 had a selectable sideband sync
detector that, by the way, was flawed, but still worked somewhat. My
500 had much sharper bandwidth filters and much better sound. The wide
filter on the 500 was a bit wider than the 700, resulting in much more
treble sound, but still narrow enough to use most of the time. The
narrow bandwidth on the 500 was MUCH SHARPER than on the 700, yet still
produced reasonable sound without excess distortion. It really cut out
most adjacent station interference. The narrow bandwidth on the 700
was not narrow enough, and therefore, you needed to use the sync
detector. Problem is, the sync detector on the 700 is flawed, and
howled unless you turned the bass control all the way off so the sound
was nothing but treble sounding.

The biggest mistake I made was to sell my 500. It was great. The 700
didn't stay around very long before I got rid of it.

On 13 Aug 2005 08:27:14 -0700, wrote:

I don't really need to know which is best, but I'd love to liven up the
group a little.

I've researched this question, just out of curiosity, and seem to
detect a vague consensus that the Satellit 700 was probably the best of
the line. I haven't used the Satellit 700, so I can't offer an opinion,
but I'd be curious to know whether others agree or not. The 700s are
always available on ebay, and I have found myself tempted at times.

Steve

http://www.dxing.com/rx/sat650.htm

I notice that even dxing.dom gives the 700 more stars than the 650. The
700 is also one sharp-looking radio, for what that's worth.

On 13 Aug 2005 09:40:25 -0700, wrote:

I notice that even dxing.dom gives the 700 more stars than the 650. The
700 is also one sharp-looking radio, for what that's worth.

If you look at the ''Sold Archives'' you'll see the 650 going for $600
more than the 700.

The 650 is a piece of art. It has a motorized tracking preselector
and a 15 Watt audio power amp.

The price difference when used is interesting, although I guess the 650
was, for one reason or another, quite a bit more expensive when new as
well. The 650 doesn't look as big as the 800...is that correct? In
general, how is the build quality of the 650? I've heard from several
people that it has amazing sound.

Steve