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04-12-2008, 03:51 PM
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Well, Duh!
I listen to my 60's SONY portable several hours every day. Despite it's age and design, it's easy on batteries. Today I noticed the audio was becoming rather distorted and thought to myself "ancient caps dying". Nope...ancient batteries dying! The last time I put batteries in this thing was the beginning of last Summer. I pulled out the old D cells and they measured less than 1 volt each!
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04-12-2008, 05:11 PM
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Yep Tony, it really does. It's become a bit flaky on AM/SW and will emit a slow, low-frequency pulse if it can't capture a weak signal. Otherwise, it still performs quite well...especially on fresh batteries!
 It has excellent fidelity thru it's 4x6" speaker and Sony was kind enough to add jacks for an external antenna, 6 volt DC in, multiplex out, earphone out, tape out and line/tape level in.
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04-12-2008, 06:38 PM
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Sony always knew what they were doing w/this kind of radio...Too bad there isn't a market for them anymore...Don't even mention those horrid Kaito/Tecsun/Whatever abombinations, either...They're not even close to being in the same league as the Sonys...
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04-12-2008, 08:40 PM
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just imagine, if you will, an age not so terribly long ago, in a galaxy not so terribly far away, when appliances like that were ment to L.A.S.T.
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04-12-2008, 08:53 PM
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I have that guy's Big Brother, a CRF-230 from 1970 that has served me well thru McCallie, Univ of Richmond, etc. Built to last ? Yeah, I guess 38 years of service would qualify...
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04-13-2008, 04:47 PM
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Very nice. I like that you use it every day. I have a Panasonic RF-2600 that I use every day, and have for many years. I'm getting nostalgic these days, however, and have "rediscovered" vintage radios. When I was a kid, my dad had a Zenith T-O 1000, and a Zenith Royal 50. These were new at the time, and my brothers and I would use them every chance we could. I think I'll have to find a nice T-O and put it back into service, and give the Panasonic a rest!
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04-13-2008, 09:35 PM
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I also have a Zenith R-70 AM/FM nine-transistor portable, another ebay score a while ago, that likewise is still on its second set of batteries and still sounding great. The R-70 is from 1980, with the circuitry mostly on a PCB rather than a steel chassis and socketed transistors, but the set still has that great Zenith sound--even with its 4" speaker. They don't make them like that anymore. IMHO, any old Zenith radio from '50s to '70s vintage will run rings around the small, cheap one-chip gutless-wonder portables found in discount houses today.
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04-13-2008, 09:39 PM
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That would be a great little radio.
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