I was over on eBay today and they showed me a radio for sale, one that elicited a pang of regret. It was a Grundig G4000A receiver. The one below was my main receiver for a few years. It’s has PLL tuning and SSB.
It has that same direct frequency entry scheme that I don’t like in my current somewhat similar Sangean ATS-405 (and XHDATA D-808 et al.). Still it brings up pleasant emotions. I could buy the one on eBay that looks pretty good, but I already have too many radios.
The other is this Realistic DX-300.
Mine died and fool that I was, instead of getting it re-capped (probably the issue) I threw it out in the trash. There I confessed. I did it. I still have the Radio Shack store sales slip for it, way back in about forty-something years ago. I spend many evenings surfing the tropical bands in the early evening.
I’ve sold a ton of Grundig radios over the years, including GrundigG3, G5, G6 Aviator, G8 Traveler II, Mini300, M400, Platinum Traveler, RK-709 S350DL, S450DLX, Yacht Boy YB-P 2000, Yacht Boy 206, Yacht Boy 230. But I mostly collected those and didn’t use them. The attachment really isn’t there.
I sold a few Tecsuns, including the PL-210, PL-380, PL-390, PL-606, PL-880, R-919 and R9702, but with the exception of the last two less than memorable ones, they were all replaced by something similar.
There was a Sangean ATS 606A that I hardly took out of the box before I sold it — didn’t like how it worked. And there are long gone, Cobys, Degens, Kaitos, Kchibos and Realistics.
Enough nostalgia for one day. If you’d like to view some photos, I have an album.
If you dig deep enough on this blog, you’ll find reviews on some of these.