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Great sensitivity in poor signal area. Excellent tone for small unit. Exceeded my expectations for a bathroom radio doubling as an emergency radio.
If not, I will continue to use it as an AM/FM only.In the old days the radio could be brought to a Sony repair station to be fixed. I read the reviews and then made the purchase. To compare the sound, I will say the Grundig YB305 is better. $25 extra to listen to SW.that is if the replacement radio will work as intended. I am now attempting to locate someone who can maybe fix my radio. The Grundig YB305 pulled in every signal and locked on. The old Grundig is far a better radio then the Sony.
The Sony scanned right over them as if they weren't even there. Here's a brand new Sony radio and I am going to have to see if I can get some warranty work to fix the problem. If anyone is considering, the Sony ICF-SW7600GR world band receiver radio, I suggest looking for another portable set. I didn't purchase this radio to trade it in on someone's old refurbished radio. The cost to me would be the price for mailing the radio in, maybe $25. Still taking a chance here. You may get a good one or you may get a bad one. Appears with the mass produced chinese @#$* products there is no quality control.
My main interest was to purchase a good shortwave radio.This radio cannot pull in the signal very well at all even after clipping an extension wire onto the antenna.I located an old Grundig YB305 portable digital shortwave radio to compare to the Sony. There used to be one in the area but that is not the case now. There is a fuller rich sound for playing the FM music. Sony is okeh, but not great.You would think that if it's a Sony it's gotta be good, but the Sony is a phoney.Currently I am only using the Sony as an AM/FM radio.I looked into warranty work and Sony will replace it with a refurbished one that may have cosmetic damage. Getting someone else to fix it is not worth the cost as the total would equal the purchase price. Word of advice, do not throw out the box right away like I did on trash collection day.
I purchased this for my dad and we had to return because out in the sticks he could not get any reception, even the AM was crap compared to his regular stereo, so we exchanged it for C Crane CSW and that got him better reception.(might be because of the twin coil ferrite antenna.). So be weary where you live.
As a Ham radio operator I am very satisfied with the quality of this radio and its capabilities. Very good reception. It only received 3 stars because it generally requires two hands to operate, operation is not intuitive, I find myself constantly going back to instruction manual, and it drains batteries quickly.
I bought this expecting exellent reception. The Sony had neither. When I bought this I also bought a Kato shortwave at 25% of the cost. The Kato has a rechargeable battery using a crank and also came with a power supply. The topper though is the Kato has better reception. Needless to say Kato stays, Sony goes.
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