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Review Summary For : SONY ICF-SW77
Reviews: 12MSRP: 699.99
Description:
Receives SW/MW/LW/FM/CW and SSB world/domestic broadcasts
Product is in production
More Info: http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/ss5/portable/worldbandspec
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00124.3
N2CHI Rating: 2001-05-10
over priced Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Functions are terrific for looking around the bands and finding what you'd like to listen to for the evening. Then, fire up another radio with better sound! Priced too high to have the following drawbacks: lousy audio, even fed to a larger speaker with follow-on amp, it's terrible, except on FM. Timer function doesn't always work and clock doesn't keep time very well. Often, when power pressed on, no signal comes on above 10 mhz until you change frequency setting. (That problem coupled with timer makes the function useless.) Sync is selectable, but favors one sideband. Cannot view lcd screen unless radio is leaned far back. Size of graphics rather small, especially the frequency numbers. Backlighting cannot be left on permanently. For 200 bucks I woudn't have minded, but for $450 street price,
buy something else.
JVFIELDS Rating: 2001-01-07
Very nice portable! Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
The Sony ICF-SW77 is a very nice portable SW radio. It is slightly on the large size for a portable (but nowhere near the size of the new Grundig boom-box). The size gives room for a decent speaker and a bunch of buttons, many of which are needed. You see, unlike the ICF-2010 which this model replaces, the ICF-SW77 allows you to store up to 162 frequencies, with station names, and even program in the time schedules for when these frequencies are used. The radio can then allow you to tune a broadcaster by name and will even pick the most appropriate frequency for a given time of day.

The sound quality is average for a SW radio (meaning not great but okay), and otherwise it has all the usual features to be found on better portables - dual time clocks (one displayed at a time), timer operation, frequency scan, FM in stereo, backlit display. Like the other good Sony models, this radio has synchronous detection for cutting out adjacent channel interference as well as single-sideband reception.

Overall - I like this radio a lot, and don't plan to buy another portable until this one is worn out.