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From: dwight@timeb.UUCP (Dwight Ernest)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: portable SW radios query
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Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 19:30:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 12 19:30:28 1985
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>    I am interested in listening to SW and I would like to get a good
>    portable radio. So far the only discussion I have seen has been on
>    the Sony ICF-2002 and ICF-7600. Are there any other radios out there
>    I should consider? I don't know anything about short wave so I am not
>    sure what I should look for. Also if I can still find a Sony ICF-6500
>    is it a good radio to get. 
> 					       Jerry Ruhno
>                                             epsilon!mb2c!gbr

The Sony models ICF-2002 and the ICF-7600D (note the D) are the
same radio; the 7600D is the European/Japanese model and is now
available with a power supply for 220/110 VAC.

I'd recommend it. I've been a ham for a long time and an SWL for
even longer, and because of various deed restrictions and some
previous financial difficulty I sold off all my high freq ham
gear about four years ago. Since then, I've had a hankering
to listen again, so went out and bought a 7600D at 47th St. Photo
(about $195 and worth it). With the external antenna it comes with
strung out and clipped in my backyard, this little radio works
at least as well as some of the HF gear I used to have.

Go ahead and get one. I no nothing, however, about the other
radios you mentioned.
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