Multiband Madness

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  1. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

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    Feel free to post your multiband portables, I've always loved the other bands and though boomboxes looked 10x better with more than AM/FM bands.

    The JVC RC-522 with nine delicious bands and the ultrapopular Sony CR-4800 with six bands but no FM. You have to love the grill cover, is that required?

    I should have put down a toy car to show the small size.


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    The seven band Sony WM-5000 and the nine band baby-sized Sony ICF-SW20 which is pretty much the size of a cassette case. There is a sliding switch at the top that moves through the bands, you can kind of see the tiny red dot at the top 2nd position, too bad they didn't have more LEDs back then. The speaker looks like it's PE with some stamped in styling, pretty neat even with it's tiny size.

    I always check for batteries and the big Sony still had them and it works great, the speaker is in the back and has very nice sonics for it's size. The WA "Brick" Series was very expensive when new.


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    Emiel Well-Known Member S2G Supporter

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    Another oldie, this time from Philips:
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    i had this for a long time, but it's gone now - for me still one of the best:
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    With the carrying case, nice!
    I only use the WA-8000 for an hour a year, and the Philips I plugged in once after purchase. A pity really, need to think about keeping them or not..
     
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    More is less when it comes to radios.
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    The twelve band ICF-7601L on the left covers less frequencies than the cassette sized, two band ICF-SW1 on the right.
    Of course it helps that on that the AM band is 150 to 29995KHz.

    Back to the ICF-7601L I had to do a repair which led to me having to change the loudspeaker as when I removed the chassis the speaker basket came with it while the cone remained stuck to the front panel. :banghead: Inside it is mechanically impressive with twin tuning capacitors both driven by anti-backlash gearing (two gears with a spring between them). Even the blue band indicator works using a weird rotating cylinder.
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