Shortwave ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM FM Radio
Shortwave ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM FM Radio
Sony ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM/FM Radio, Silver
Ham Operator and I restore tube radios for a hobby
so I've spent a few hours listening to DX, I know crap, I know hype,
and I know a miracle when I trip over one. I started looking around for
a pocket radio to keep in my truck because sometimes I would be caught
working away from the shop for hours without any news or music. If
you're a radio nut you can guess what happened next. A month later,
probably twenty hours online and more than a hundred bucks worth of
pocket radios and I wasn't happy. I'd had fun and now had some radios
handy around the house for "adequate" use (radios & led flashlights,
can't have enough!). Even though I had run across this radio online and
in reviews I didn't put it on my list of probables, It was just a
$10.00 radio and I was limiting myself to vintage radios with discrete
transistor designs or new IC designs over $30 or $40 dollars. After all
I wanted a "good radio". I was pretty much interested in an analog
radio because in this price range digital sets are usually noisey,
battery hogs, and plauged by "birdies". Finally, I ordered one of these
because "what the heck" ten bucks, if it sucks I'll give it away. When
it showed up I plopped in a set of AA's tuned the dial and heard lots
of stations, good sign. Any radio that has analog tuning with a dial
thats two inches across is a challenge, but thats ok. Low and behold
theres KGNC from over 120 miles away and it's 1500hrs(3pm). What the
hay! Listen up buyers, This radio is TEN BUCKS and it can hear
stations others can't. No one has learned how to put sensitivity,
selectivity, and audio into one box this size but this radio is a
miracle!
Shortwave ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM FM Radio
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