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KH7QT	Rating: 5/5	Feb 14, 2012 16:43	Send this review to a friend!
Great little SWL Radio in its Day			Time owned: more than 12 months
I bought one of these new from RS when they went on sale...probably 10 years ago or more. What drew me to it was the LSB/USB capability. It was about the lowest price receiver I could find that was able to receive side band. The radio still works as new, but admittedly, I've not used it a lot over the years. The only complaint is that it eats batteries pretty fast. I failed to buy the wall-wart power supply, so I've gone through a number of Double-A's over the years. It's the same basic radio as the Sangean 909...but was a little cheaper. I bought my Dad the Sangean down from this model and it broke after a couple of years. He replaced it with a Grundig and the display went bad on that one. None of these cheaper radios are the quality of say an Icom receiver. But take care of them and they'll generally last many years.
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