Well, that is the first good review I read since that radio hit the market 
in early 2000 or so.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Kiehne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] shortwave receivers


> 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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