One of my friends who is a chief engineer at a local radio station wrote the 
following about the C C radio.

I went through my CC Radio platinum edition.here's what I found.

Its roots are an entertainment radio, not communication.  Its
sensitivity on AM is quite excellent, its selectivity is good to
excellent, unless the radio is overloaded by a couple of strong local
stations, then all goes awry.  You can hear images and artifacts all
over the dial if it's overloaded; this occurs when the field strength is
greater than 350 milivolts around the radio (high end) and 800 milivolts
(low end.)  In short its third order intercept point sucks.  10 dB sinad
occurs in a .5 Milivolt field, low end, a .2 milivolt field high end of
the dial.  10 Db selectivity points at about 4 KHz.  Distortion at the
speaker with 250 mw out of the radio was .8% THD + Nose @ 30% modulation
at 400 Hz. which all works out.  Local oscillator stability is +/- 600
Hz from -20 to +50 C.  It appears to be voltage stabilized, as voltage
applied didn't seem to have too great an effect.  It's IF image
rejection is only fair.but way better than the Super Radio.

Nutshell?  This is a sticks radio.  Owners will enjoy good reception
with it, providing they don't live close to a couple of AM radio
stations, the directivity of the loop stick antenna is quite pronounced,
strong stations can be nulled out to hear the station you desire.  An
external loop antenna needs to be used carefully - overloading seems to
be easy to do.

It is very well made with quality components everywhere, plus a clean
easy to service layout with more than I'm used to seeing on board
shielding.

So now we know about that.

John.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: shortwave receivers


> Don,
>
> I just got the CCrane CC-Radio-Plus, and it's the hottest radio I've
> seen in a long time.  In addition to covering MW, FM, TV (channels
> 2-13), and Weather, it has both Line In and Line Out jacks.  Both
> input and output are stereo, so you can hear your favorite portable
> CD player through the radio's headphone jack, or make stereo
> recordings from the radio.  It's not 100% accessible, but it's mostly
> accessible.  If you buy it from the company, ask for Tim Hindel's
> cassette tutorial.  It will cost you an extra five bucks, but it's
> worth the money.  The radio itself costs $165, and no, I'm not
> working for CCrane.
>
> Steve
>
> On Wednesday 9/6/06 13:15 Donald L. Roberts wrote:
>>A few questions along this line, if I may.  My wife's GE super
>>radio 2 and my GE super radio 3 are both showing their age.  I
>>care little about short wave because most of the international
>>broadcasters no longer are there.  So in terms of medium wave and
>>FM sensitivity, selectivity, and sound quality, what new
>>receivers are available which are reasonably accessible and which
>>perform and sound at least as good or better than the super radio
>>3?  As I said, I really don't care that much about short wave as
>>I still have a working Sony 2010.
>>
>>Thanks for ideas.
>>
>>Don Roberts
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 9:11 PM
>>Subject: shortwave receivers
>>
>>
>>Hi All, On the bottom end of the portable receiver curve, the
>>little
>>yachtboy400 and or 400PE by Grundig's a simple 40memory easily
>>settable
>>decent lw-mw-sw-fm portable, the little Kaito KA1102's a nice
>>very little
>>190 memory digital SW FM AM, with bfo, surprisingly decent cheapy
>>that comes
>>with rechargeable bats, charger, and all.  Then There are several
>>receivers
>>Sony makes with the 7600 model number.  1, I've read described as
>>the 7600A,
>>and bought one of that deliniation by mistake, is an older,
>>"Banded SWL
>>receiver, same size and similar layout to the other 7600 radios,
>>it has no
>>bfo and does have a tuning knob, but is not digital at all and is
>>strictly
>>an older swl-am-fm-lw portable, but a good one.
>>Then there is the 7600D, european version and it's also called, I
>>think the
>>7600.  and may also be called something else like the 2002 or
>>something
>>similar.  It's digital, has only nine memories and no synch
>>detection,
>>pretty good radio, hard on bats, but only uses four AAs, as do
>>all the
>>7600s.
>>The 7600G, is synch detected, has twenty memories, and a pretty
>>dynamite
>>little/same size as the others, portable, then the 7600GR, has
>>more memories
>>and is also synch detectored.
>>Another radio you might consider is the sony sw100 a 2 AA shirt
>>pocket
>>clamshell type radio, synch detectored and a very good little
>>set/though
>>expensive.  If buying a 7600, make sure you know which one you're
>>getting.
>>They will all tune the LW band, lmore or less 150-400 or so, and
>>tuning and
>>memory setting are easy.  the nine memory unit goes used for
>>anywhere from
>>fifty to eighty, the G can go from fifty to a hundred and twenty,
>>and the
>>GR, usually more.  The sw100 goes from 150 to three hundred
>>depending on
>>what shape and what accessories.  Suggest you go to the universal
>>radio site
>>and check out their comparative review of short wave receivers,
>>pretty
>>revealing.  Appreciate all you guys and gals, dd.
>>
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