Love how they cleaned it up for the photos, or is that just to make it look 'vintage'How about one of these...
Sony ICF-SW7600G Vintage World Band Receiver | eBay
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I've had mine quite a while with no problems, I use it in my caravan when I don't have a phone/wifi signal.
He might if he knew that it wasI've got an old grinding you can have for nowt if you can collect from where I'm working in Fife.
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Free, collect from Leeds or Cowdenbeath, Fife.
I know the OP is in Scotland. If that means Dumfries or Inverness, no dice. If Edinburgh or thereabouts, happy days.
Love how they cleaned it up for the photos, or is that just to make it look 'vintage'
PP9 ?What were those big old square batteries that radios used to use. Massive ever ready things.
That's a huge list of musts for offgrid man butI'm looking for a radio to leave in a small, off-grid hut. Probably use it to listen to Radio 3 and the odd foray into Radio 2, Radio Scotland for folk and country music. Budget around Ā£50. Buying used.
I'd started looking at vintage Roberts radios and then read that Hacker radios are better built. Then I paused and wondered if old radios would just be nuisance; deteriorating components, loose bits, poor reception etc. Is Japanese better? I've no idea when the sweet-spot for small transistor radios was?
Hoping that some PFM ers could suggest a couple of radio models worth looking at? Here's my wish list:
- A proper, old-school tuning dial with sliding indicator
- A couple of pre-sets
- Battery powered. (Ideally, if it could run off 12V DC from a leisure battery, it would save buying batteries, but not a deal-breaker)
- Nice to look at and nice to use
- Reliable and with a decent grasp of signal
- Cheap, good VFM
- Fairly small, to fit on a window ledge and not take up too much space.
I miss my tiny Sangean/roberts analogue worldband radio - cost less than Ā£30, could fit in a pocket, batteries lasted for aeons and it sounded great. Finally got battered into submission being used for the garage, gardening and travel.
I'd buy a new FM portable set, rather than an old Hacker, Roberts or old worldband set.
The former eat batteries and the latter have a million surface mounted components that could go bang.
I recently tried to resuscitate a 20 year old analogue roberts worldband set - the tuning string had ceased to grip any of the wheels - and ended up wasting a lot of time to no avail.
DAB radios also chew through batteries compared to a basic FM/AM portable.
Maybe something like this?
Sony Portable Radio with speaker
Powered by two AA batteries and featuring an included hand strap for enhanced portability, this compact, horizontal AM/FM radio is the perfect travel companion. Whether youāre listening through the built-in speaker or via headphones, youāll always be able enjoy great monoaural sound ā anytime...centresdirect.co.uk
Iām being far too fussy, youāre right. This one seems to fit the bill but a bit pricey.That's a huge list of musts for offgrid man but
onne of the modern roberts portables run on batteries, are portable, sound fine, have AM and FM and are not too expensive used.
Aye, no mains services. But decent 4G. I hadnāt considered 4G as being part of the āgridā (of physical infrastructure) but perhaps these days it is.If off grid means no electricity (ie needs to be battery powered) and no wifi for internet radio, then you may as well get any decent make of vintage FM/AM portable radio. My experience of DAB in Scotland has been poor (as in very variable signal and certainly no use in rural areas).
Have you looked for a Roberts - then get some rechargeable batteries? Roberts have a lush non-fatiguing sound and Iāve used them in rural areas for FM
How often do you use the shed? If not that often then there must be lots of portable options
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Plus thereās something companionable in knowing that other people are tuned into the same program and music at the same time.
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