What's your most used 'portable'?
 

What's your most used portable transistor radio?

Mine's a Realistic Portavision-5.

Gets used about 3 hours a day, and it still has the original batteried from when I got it last year and put them in.


Not great sound, but it's enjoyable. Very sensitive.

My most used portable is not vintage. It is a Kaito 1102 shortwave portable. It does everything and fits in a coat pocket. It's just a great little set.

I have been getting lots of use out of my Sony TR-8050 Super Sensitivity portable. I can listen any time to KNX-AM in Los Angeles from my home in Northern California. Check out the precision tuning dial. Loud, crystal clear audio. Fun little radio.


One in attached photo looks exactly like mine.

Tivoli PAL which sounds really good, and a Sony wrist-radio from WalMart that has mostly awful sound, and Mega-bass which is totally unusable at any listening level because it boosts the bass by about 10,000 db. The Sony wrist-strap is great, and NPR is barely listenable with a fresh battery, so it does get used for outdoor walking.

For me it's a mid-sixties Sony multi-band that gets around five hours of play each and every day.

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Celt, thats a nice sony you've got there. My Sony CF-550A (first Boombox ?) gets 4 to 6 hours of use a dayfor the past four years. Tokyo Sony products seem to run forever.

Well, as I have 2 Eton S350DLs, one in the office and one next to the bed, the answer is easy, an Eton S350DL. Only other protable is the combo MP3 player/fm radio I use for old time radio program listening but, only very occaisionally do I listen to the fm though it does pull in the local FM pretty well.

My most used radio is a wooden DIY boombox based on a 70s Delco AM/FM cassette car stereo, i listen to it about 3 hours a day while mucking out my horses stalls, sound real good and also has the convenience of mechanical preset pushbuttons which are rarely found on regular radios.

A Magnavox 8 transistor radio, can't remember the model number, AM only and a Realistic Patrolman SW-60 multiband portable. I also use my Sanyo RP-8700 multiband portable radio and a Philco 53-656 portable as well here in the computer room.

The portable that I use the most is a Juliette AM/VHF, model APB-11H, paid 75 cents for it from a thrift store 10+ years ago. Decent sensitivity and a good tone from the speaker (3-inch I think).

Nordmende Globetrotter 7/601. That's a Globetraveller II to you, but I bought it on EPay Germany. Fortunately had a cheap way of shipping. Excellent radio once I got it working properly. Had to take out the "car radio" sockets in the base which looked as though the radio had stood in an inch of muddy water for a while! Now it goes all day every day in my garage. Good sensitivity on the 11 SW bands too, with an RF stage in the turret tuner. I've knocked the dents out of the speaker grille and repainted it since the pic was taken.

My 1963 Zenith Trans-Oceanic Royal 3000 SW portable. Love it's sound quality and DX capability. A nice US built boatanchor portable. Hand wired and transistors in sockets. A marvel of USA build quality. .

A dinky little pocket-sized (for a kinda large pocket) set branded "International," with BC, FM, LW, and about 5 spread SW bands, telescoping antenna, works on 2 AA cells. I bought it at a church bazaar over ten years ago for two bucks: looked unused. Works fine for what it is. It pops into the suitcase for travelling and it's handy for when I'm on the go doing yardwork or something.

Since my earlier post, I retired the very old Sony and replaced it with this (curb-find and repaired by me) Sony ICF 38.
It offers excellent battery life and fidelity thru it's 3.75" speaker.

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A Philips/Magnavox "Boom Box" AM/FM/Cassette/CD player. Nightstand radio, I listen to "Coast to Coast AM" on it. It stays "On" virtually all the time.