[BC] Re: GE Superadio III

[Bob Barnswatts]

The newest SR3 that I just bought won't stay on frequency, either AM or FM.  I have to go retune it every 15 minutes or so.  Its really a hunk of crap.  The one I had before and left outside against all the rules thru rain and hail and wind and dirt for nearly 10 years before it quit playing didn't have that problem even before it gave up the ghost.  

Call me not impressed.  Does anyone make a decent radio with a METER for casual use?  I miss having a meter for signal strength and absolutely abhore LED "meters"

Years ago I had some old Marantz (under the name superscope or something like that)  portable cassette deck  with an AM (& FM) tuner in it that was simply awesome and had a signal strenth meter.  That thing was wonderful but someone stole it from me. That was back around 1980.  I could record DX right on it.  That was back in the days of the Herb Jepko show. It would pull in stations no other radio could dain to receive.

To me it is important to have a tuning knob and not digital tuned radios, i really really can't stand pushing up and down on the arrows to change the channel.  Most car radios are crap now with all the fiddling you have to do to hear a station.  I'd rather have a tuning KNOB that I can dial with, digital readout or not.  My chevy truck has a factory radio that is digital readout but you can adjust it with the tuning knob, that's alright by me but it isn't that spectacular of a radio.


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On 7/6/2006 at 3:29 PM cldube wrote:

>I'm confused- do you think the SR is better than the 2010?
>"beats any other radio he has for sensitivity, including the Sony..."
>
>As far as I know, the 2010 was one of the best portables for DX- however
>(and I know I'm going to attract lightning with this) I couldn't stand the 
>chuffing
>while tuning and the audio quality. I ended up selling mine. Even with the 
>wide bw in AM, it sounded poor to me with
>that speaker and I much prefer listening to a 7600 even if it isn't quite
>as 
>sensitive.
>I know- I'm wacky.
>