Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!wmartin@Almsa-2 From: wmartin@Almsa-2 (Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI) Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Low-cost SWL Radios Message-ID: <11464@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 17:16:15 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11464 Posted: Wed Jul 10 17:16:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 06:41:56 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 16 Regarding the discussion some months back about $100-range shortwave radios: Radio Shack is discontinuing their DX-400 radio (the same radio, with slightly different cosmetics, as the Uniden CR-2021, which was closed out last year for $90-$120 from various sources). I've seen it at at least one R-S store on a "manager's special" for $149.95. As stocks dwindle, I wouldn't be surprised to find demo models or the last one in stock for even less -- it might be worth haggling over, even. I wonder what will be coming out in the future to fill this void -- I would expect more Korean/other Asian makers to copy Sony models, the way Uniden copied the Sony 2001 for this one. Anybody out there in the trade have any word on new digital-readout SW portables? Or has the Asian SWL boom run its course (as it has in Japan), and Sony will have no competition in this area? Regards, Will