I am thinking of buying that radio. I have an rf-2200. Wonder if it picks
up any better? I know I am replying to an old post.

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, wrote:

On Jan 26, 4:45*pm, Mike wrote:
On Jan 25, 1:25*am, wrote:





On Jan 24, 5:51*pm, DEFCON 88 wrote:

On Jan 23, 7:28*pm, LukeP wrote:

Here is actual pic of receiver:

http://www.eham.net/data/classifieds/images/294940.jpg

I will accept $100 including shipping in US for this radio.

Now that's one impressive looking radio!

Key word is 'impressive' . From what I gather (it has been almost 30
years since) it has two IF bandwiths . Not heavy at all, despite it's
size (very big) . As far as I know, this was their flagship portable
in the early 80's !

The 8880 was only produced in 1978, though it was being sold new for
several years after that. Think of an RF-2200 on steroids, using the
same crystal calibration marker that made frequency measurement
fairly accurate on the RF-2200. Same rotatable MW antenna, only
bigger on the 8880. The 8880's "Achille's heel" was an easily-
blown FET and that wasn't a problem with the cheaper, and easier
to service, Panasonic RF-2200s and Sony 5900Ws.- Hide quoted text -

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It was huge, more comparable in size to the Grundig's Satellit 3000
line . At that time Sanyo was the 3rd largest in popularity Japanese
brand ...