Re: [IRCA] MW DX Portables

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've used a lot of portables over the years for MW dxing, dating back to 
> the
> Panasonic RF-2200 and continuing through the Sony 2010, and more recently
> Sangean ATS-909, Grundig YB400PE, and Sony ICF-SW7600GR.  I've gotten 
> varied
> results with all of them, most of them good to excellent.  The best was
> probably the 2010.
>
> I'm curious as to what portables you have had the best luck with.
>
>
This topic seems to come up periodically..  I've owned a Panasonic RF-2200 
since 1978, and it's still the best MW DX machine!  IMHO it's a little too 
hefty to be considered a portable.  A "portatop", to use the term coined by 
the WRTVH, (or was it Passport to World Band radio?) is more like it.

I've used a Grundig YB400PE since January 2003, and it's no RF-2200. 
Nonetheless I am quite happy with it, despite its well-documented faults - a 
20khz downward "bleed" of strong local signals (e.g. CFTR-680 can be heard 
on 660, often at the same level as WFAN), inaccurate clock (a few days after 
sync'ing with WWV, it's almost a minute fast), poor battery consumption, and 
sometimes questionable quality control.

The YB400 replaced a Panasonic RFB-45, which I had been using for almost 10 
years until it suddenly died The cost of having it fixed was more than a new 
radio, hence I bought the YB400.

I had one of the first-generation GE SuperRadios, in 1980..  As a dx rig. it 
wasn't too bad, though it died when the dial cord pulley snapped.


73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON 

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