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My Sony ICF-7600DS gets the majority of use...works well on SSB & the longwave band is fun in the winter
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My little Panasonic 8. It used to be one of those Emerson Explorers till I dropped it and it got damaged beyond repair. (Actually I can't even remember exactly what happened to it other than it got busted somehow and now it's long gone, boy is my memory fading with age!) Just fixed me up a very compact RCA *tube* portable that was in mint condition, with a big pile of rechargeable 9-volt batteries as a B battery substitute, so I've been giving that some air time too. I should hunt me up another Emerson 'space race' transistor, I do miss mine.
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I keep the Kaito 1102 in my desk drawer at work so now my everyday portable is a new Sangean 909. I was fortunate to get one of the last of the new production sets left over from Universal Radio. I also have the Sangean 909X. Both are great sets.
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In the kitchen, it's a Zenith Royal 880. Hand-wired chassis and excellent reception, audio quality and battery life. We used it for many hours a day several days last year when the power went out, and it still has the same batteries today!
In the living room, it's a Heathkit GR-24 bought on eBay. Needed liquid flux and some gingerly motion to all the solder joints while molten, but it is sensitive, selective and has "lotsa watts" of room-filling volume. |
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@Einar72...
Can you pull in the "really oldies" low power station KBRD, 680 from Olympia with those cool sets? jr |
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My Crane CCRadioEP has supplanted the Tivoli PAL for most-used status due to ballgames; it simply hears more distant stations than the Tivoli. I really love the EP; yeah, I wish selectivity were better but the Music/Voice bandwidth selector in conjunction with the twin-coil antenna control usually does the trick.
Also, FWIW, the EP's fairly annoying whine with the plasma TV on usually has me switching off the boob-tube...the PAL's scream of abject terror from the same source demands something be off.
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Emerson 888 Vanguard, identical to this one. It sits on my Majestic TV in the living room, and I bring it with me into the bathroom every morning while I S-S-S
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If a car stereo hooked up on my bench counts as a portable, that would be my 1983 Ford AM-FM 8-track stereo, model E3AF-19A168-AB. Last edited by Jon A.; 09-29-2015 at 04:14 PM. |
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This is my daily AM listening radio. Sony SRF-A100. Runs on 3 AA batteries. No more AM Stereo, but it still makes a nice wide band AM hi-fi mono presentation! Especially when I plug in a 3.5mm phone plug to RCA outs and hook it up to the big stereo. Has a synchronous AM detector, which is almost like tuning an FM radio the way it captures the AM signal and locks onto it.
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Given that I have several dozen portable radios, it's hard to determine which one I use the most. Currently, the crown would probably go to the Grundig Transistor 5000, aka the Satellit 205 (the first radio in the Satellit series, which they made for over 40 years, and are still being made). Second rung down would probably be my Grundig Satellit 700 (ironically, the last true Satellit model made; the current radios are made by a different company), with the Zenith Trans-Oceanic Royal D7000Y close behind. I recently picked up a Philco T9-126 "Trans-World", their answer to the solid-state Zenith Trans-Oceanic models. It needs work, but should be an excellent performer once fixed up.
-Adam
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