Drifter, I have owned so many of these portables, but I remember the E5 well. I believe the one I had was a G5, and Grundig branded, but essentially the same radio. Performance-wise you can expect it

The RADIOWOW R-108 is in the Amazon Prime-Day deals for $41.57 https://www.amazon.com/RADIWOW-Shortwave-Portable-Operated-Memories/dp/B08HCYYW88/ref=pd_lpo_23_t_0/136-3598259-4818911?_encoding=UTF8&pd

I always referred to that as the "SHIDAS Touch" I see on some of my groups, people complaining about the "short notice". We have been harping on this ever since Yahoo merged with AOL! I worked for AOL

Paul, and all, I feel that the majority of the members are looking to diversify the scope of what we do here, and some want to keep it as the title of the group states: limited in size and function. M

I know that Jay Allen liked the opaque version. https://radiojayallen.com/pocket-portable-amfm-radios-update/ --Neil

I guess a prison term is a novelty now? I know there is novelty interest in a clear radio but thought this was funny anyway. Probably not a bad ULR though. Here's the link in case the attachment doesn

Today starts an interesting adventure. I have been acquiring radios again at a steady rate for the last 10 or so years, plus I still have a few of my old ones. I need to get a handle on this collectio

Not sure if it's just me, but this PDF is not rendering in any of my readers except Calibre. Can you post a word or .txt version? Thanks. --Neil W2NDG

It's there. It's mounted on the underside of the board. You can see the retaining wax dots and some of the coil peeking through a hole in the upper right of the first photo.

I picked up a P26 yesterday at PC Richard on Long Island. Great performer. There are three shots of the insides over in the photo section. The chip says: SONY CXA1019S 519B73G Enjoy!

I agree fully, but it makes a great travel throwaway. My dad, who paid around $350 for our family business's first five function electronic calculator (a Bowmar) used to collect calculators when they

This gave me an idea. I listed out the whole portable AM/FM category and sorted all Buy It Now items by price. Here is the lowest priced AM/FM portable on eBay (Also a Kaide!): http://www.ebay.com/itm

Direct from CountyComm: http://www.countycomm.com/gp5ssb.html Or, you could look for a Tecsun PL-365 in eBay/AliExpress Neil, W2NDG

Here's an Amazon retailer that has a bunch of interesting Japanese market radios: Japan FAN Store @ Amazon.com: radio - Sony Japan FAN Store @ Amazon.com: radio - Sony Online shopping from a great sel

I saw this on Herculodge: http://herculodge.typepad.com/herculodge/ The new Sangean DT-500W http://www.sangean.com/support/download/Flyer/V1/Flyer_20150211_DT-500W_SAI_V1.pdf

Supplier on eBay selling replacement antennas: TECSUN PL High Quality Steel Whip Radio Antennas PL660/390/380/310/606 TECSUN PL High Quality Steel Whip Radio Antenna... US $4.90 New in Consumer Electr

Thanks Guy, and everyone else. I have also used the fishing analogy, and taken it a step further. Sometimes when explaining the hobby, I get asked, "Why don't you just stream the stations from the Int

I know as a kid in the seventies, my other young audiophile friends thought it was weird when I had an AM antenna hooked up to my various receivers. I agree with the thread here that most are too broa

His name is Tao Qu, and he used to monitor this group. I have had email exchanges with him before at tquchina@... I also miss being able to buy radios and accessories from him, but have had good

I have the older version of this radio sitting on my desk at work. I wrote about it one Father's Day recently over at AmateurRadio.com: http://www.amateurradio.com/dads-sony-re-post-for-fathers-day/ G