Sony ICF-9650W hi-fi table radio

[stahlhart]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

I pulled the Sam's Photofact on this radio and noticed something interesting. The Canadian version of this radio had a record out jack while the US version did not. I wonder why they didn't put such a jack on all versions? It would be simple enough to add a record out jack on my model and I may just do it. Who knows, I might want to record some aircheck tapes of some of the last big remaining music stations on AM such as WSM, WMC, KWKH, WDIA, and the "Route 66" show on KMOX.

Probably just a cost reduction -- perhaps they felt that the record out feature was more important to Canadian consumers than American ones, for whatever reason.

The Realistic DX-440 shortwave portable is another example of this: there's a plastic filler plug covering the hole in the cabinet where there would be a DIN record out jack, if it were the authentic Sangean ATS-803A. But here's it's a simple task to remove the plug and solder a PC-mounted DIN socket, as the provisions for it on the board are still there. From here you'd just need a suitable DIN cable appropriately terminated at the other end for your recording input.

[akent36]

My $20 KLH 21 that I just repaired pulls in stations and sounds much better than my daily driver Zenith C845. But I am still a big fan of that Zenith AM/FM series of radios.