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Well that's certainly reasonable enough!
Does the rotary tuning control work OK on it? Mine had gotten a little flakey sometimes jumping off frequency by itself, sometimes not responding quite right when tuned. I took the back off and shot a bit of DeOxit into the rotary encoder switch which is the tuning control. Fixed it right up! |
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I'll have to do that - it skips around using the tuning knob.
I found that radio at a thrift store with no price on it - the lady at the counter says "It sure looks like it uses a *lot* of batteries - $5." I reach in my pocket and start to tell her "why don't you take at least ten for it," but before I could say much she knocks a dollar off "to make sure I'm happy with it." Well, God bless her, I certainly am. |
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Looks like it's a Zenith Trans-Oceanic Royal 7000 or a D7000Y. The best of that line. Has a BFO for SSB and CW reception. Nicely made in the old Hand-Wired Zenith tradition and a superb performer in any language. Worth many times $10 in nice shape.
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Would you consider one of the table-top tube ( those good ole radios) shortwave radios with nice speakers and looks really nice?
my Dad's Grundig has a 5X7 oval and a couple other drivers for a really nice sound. Just hang some wire on the antenna terminal. The R390A is definitely a gud BA radio...love it Fred |
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Another Zenith wannabe! I had a similar-looking Nivico FA6000 (or something like that) that I bought in the Persian Gulf in the 60's for US$30 new. After exhaustive (ie one Atlantic crossing!) trip I realised that the model number FA was about all it was worth!
Nivico of course became JVC - hope the quality improved!
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Disregard - found itself in the wrong column!
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I could almost kick myself for the shortwaves I have given away. Every time I bought a new one I gave my old one to someone I thought would enjoy the hobby. In one case I created a monster. They guy went whole hog into SW DXing and bought tons of expensive equipment including a device that allowed him to intercept fax transmissions. I apologized to his wife. The other guys never took to it and now i am out of some very nice radios.
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I bought the DX-440 about '89 or '90 to get over this girl I'd just broke up with...Then, I started reading Popular Communications & kept reading that "This radio is as good as an R-390A" or "That radio is almost as good as an R-390A". There was a guy, Rick Mish, who had ads in the back of the mag, "Miltronix, R-390/390A Sales & Service", I called him, & soon became the proud daddy of a 1968 Dittmore-Friemuth R-390A...Then, I started reading "Electric Radio" magazine & found out about stuff like SX-28s, SP-600s, R-389s, R-392s, R-391s, RA-17s, SX-73s, NC-183Ds, SX-62s, & a mysterious German set, the EK-07...20 years later, I are the proud, but considerably poorer, daddy of EACH of those, plus a WHOLE lot more...People who see 'em are either 1) Floored, 2) Dumbfounded that I have SO MANY old junky, too-big tube radios that all do more or less the same thing, or 3) Think that I have a SERIOUS personality problem/defect. Myself, I pick 3.
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I started out listening to my dad's Zenith TO Royal 1000 when I was a kid, around '64 or so. My own first sw was a 1941 Philco that I got from the original owner when I was 15 or so, for $10. I even rented it to a filmaker back then for $10 as a prop, so I guess it was really free! I still have that one, and it still works pretty well. The one that gets the most use these days is a Panasonic RF-2600 that I'm very happy with. I'd still like to find a nice TO 1000 one of these days.
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I've had many Panasonic SW radio's over the years but my favourite today is a Toshiba RPF-11 small, lightweight, battery operated and boasts dual conversion circuitry.
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short wave
how about a 9 band Sanyo RP-8880 from the early 70,s
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