Hi Butch, was it a heavily padded thing, called the Astronaut-8?
I had one of these 4 8 years. Was on sale for $100. I wanted it for
listening to aviation basically. The shortwave bands were gloss.
Had a crappy vfo, which could in a pintch receive ssb.
But, it wasn't reliable. But, a great set, nevertheless.
I was able to catcdh the chineese satellite on it.
I wish I could say I had the tape to confirm it, but it got lost somewheres.

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From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: Yaesu FRG-7


> Fun remonising about older equipment.  I bought a transoceanic on e-bay a
> couple years ago.  It is a cool radio, but doesn't cover the ham bands.  I
> wish they had made that thing general coverage.  There was a radio shack
> radio, astro something or other, I saw back in 1968.  I almost bought one,
> but never did.  It was a general coverage portable that would receive ssb.
> I don't recall what it was called, but didn't rip off shack make a hf ham
> tranceiver for a short while?
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr