Here's my experience I had with the super radio III.

During the day, I use some of the following stations for testing reception. 
I don't use my loop unless noted.  All these stations are 70 miles south of 
my location.

KSRK, 540 AM, Carmel Valley.  The Superradio had slightly better reception 
than my Dx-398
KIDD, 630 AM, Monterey was a different story.  I heard KFRC 610 AM with low 
audio.  If I used my Torus loop then I could receive KIDD.  I can pick up 
this station on my DX-398.

KSCO, 1080 AM, Santa Cruz.  I would either hear the audio from KTCT, 1050 AM 
or KFAX, 1100 AM.  I tried using my Torus loop with no luck.  I normally 
listen to KNX 1070 at night for the drama hour, KSco Saturday afternoons for 
The Golden Age of radio with my Dx-398.

Using my 27 inch Torus loop with the DX-398, I get better selectivity than 
the CCradio, Ge Superadio, direct frequency access, great sensitivity!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: receivers


> Hi Richard, the super radios were and maybe are still made by General
> Electric/"G E."  The original, made late seventys to early 80s I think, 
> was
> a quite sensitive/selective, and  good sounding for its' size, FM, AM,
> strictly mono, strictly analog,  117vac and or 6 D cell receiver with ext
> FM, AM, Ant, And Ground Screws in back left, FM rod ant on top, pretty 
> good
> sized ferrite loopstick antenna for AM inside.  fold down {toward rear}
> handle on top, power button on top right front, and vertacle row,/top to
> bottom, large tuning, treble, base, and volume knobs down the right front,
> with fm-am and fm-A F C/updown 2position flip switches, side by side,
> between tuning and treble knobs.  has maybe 6by9 speaker most of left side
> of radio, with metal grill/screne, dile across front of radio near the 
> top,
> and 3eighths inch mono phone jack on righthand side of radio.
> Super Radio 2, Probably early eightys to around 90 or so, somewhat similar
> lay out, but with tuning knob on right side rather than front of radio, 
> and
> earphone jack is stereo.  Not quite as selective or sensitive, but close.
> Super radio 3, early ninetys to now, I guess, about the same size with, as 
> I
> remember them,  wide narrow am and am and or fm stereo switches on front
> near where other switches were located, sounds good, but terrible_
> sensitivity _Especially on FM, and even worse selectivity on both fm and 
> am.
> All Are My Oppinions, I've owned both several of the original models, and
> one of the 3s, which I _____Very quickly got rid of!!!!! Boy What a
> disappointment.  I've used though never owned a super radio 2.  None of 
> them
> are perfect, I've experienced dial cord brakeage on the originals, have 
> run
> across several originals in pawnshops etc, bought a paint spattered ugly 
> one
> at a hamclub yardsale for $5 and was thrilled to get it.
> I don't know of anything in the price range that comes anywhere near what
> they do, except one of the old, and I mean early to mid sixtys 
> channelmaster
> table model portable type units, about the size of a 9inch tv, with rabbit
> ears on either side of the top for FM, as well as fm, am, and ground 
> screws
> on rear, similar dial layout but with fm-am knob inside tuning knob, and
> phone jack on front.  This one had no AC supply in it, ran off either 6 or 
> 9
> D cells, and I'd love to have one.  The little Sony 7600G and the sw100S 
> are
> pretty good AM-FM units, with SW, and frankly, the Grundig yb400 and 400PE
> make good FM-AM units, don't sound as good as the Supers, but do alright,
> and the dx398/Sangean 909 is one of the best AM radios in the price class,
> especially if you use a stereo headphone cord in the external antenna jack
> and find the individual center conductor that corresponds to the AM 
> antenna
> input.  Another pretty good little FM-AM unit, though not as good as the
> ones mentioned above but a very simple, stable, and fun fm am sw portable
> though not ssb compatible is the radioshack dx375.  But enough of my
> rambling. dd.