[Nolan Woodbury]

I have all three versions; the SR I was given as a gift years ago when my brother purchased a CC-Radio as an upgrade. The CC has a digital turner and some others nice features, but it isn't a better radio, reception wise.

Found a battered SR II at a thrift store. Pretty much the same as the first version, but better sound and a tweeter added. Even with the antenna snapped off, it pulls in stations pretty well (I'm about 45-miles from Phoenix) but I rigged an outside-extension wire from a diagram I found in a radio book. Pulls in crazy signals at night, with TONS of stations from Mexico and South America. I even caught a Cuban station one night, talking about Fidel Castro's illness.

About two years ago I purchased a new GE SR III on the internet for stupid-cheap; something like $28.00 with shipping. MUCH better sound on FM, and while the reception on either AM or FM isn't better, the (quality of) sound and lack of static is. A very respectable unit that’s better than any solid state table radio I have, save for my Kloss Model One which is a completely different animal.

I mostly use my Zenith tube-types for FM music listening, and that's a better way to go. Still, I'm attached to the SR; a real 'last a lifetime' radio.