After 9½ years of service, several trips to the Kripalu Center and other
yoga retreats, and a pilgrimage to India, my 1993 Panasonic RFB-45 virtually
died. One day it was working fine; I was listening to Imus on WFAN in the
morning, but at lunch hour I tried to listen to Jim Rome on WGR-550 and
found the tuning had completely conked out. (since CHUM axed the sports,
I've been taking my dx rig to work, just to listen to Rome!) Since the cost
to have it fixed would be almost as much as a new radio, I chose the latter
option. Yesterday I got a Grundig Yacht Boy 400 PE, for $CDN195 at
Bay-Bloor Radio, a long-established electronics shop in downtown Toronto
at -- DUH!! -- the corner of Bay and Bloor streets.