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Reviews For: Zenith Trans Oceanic - Royal 7000/D7000Y

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Review Summary For : Zenith Trans Oceanic - Royal 7000/D7000Y
Reviews: 3MSRP: 299.00
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Zenith 11 band SW portable receiver
Product is not in production
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AD0AR Rating: 2020-02-24
Amazing for it's time Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Bought one beat up one at a garage sale in 1988. Still have it.
Found another **mint** one at a hamfest last year.
Has everything- the manual, chart, power cord, battery tubes. Even had a radio dust cover included!
I had to re-cap it and replaced all the socketed transistors with hand picked and tested for gain transistors from my parts box. Had to change out a few resistors for it to properly handle the AGC with the higher gain transistors.
After a full re alignment I am very impressed with the beautiful sound and battery life. The radio runs forever on a set of 9 "D" batteries! It draws about 30-40mA at normal volume giving it about 200+ hours of run time on a set of batteries.
It is not as sensitive nor does it have DSP as modern receivers have, but it can and will pick up a dozen or so shortwave stations with the built in antenna and it owns the AM band with every 10 khz picking up 2 or more stations battling for the bandwidth, requiring you to use the narrow bandwidth option to increase the selectivity.
FM radio works great, having the tunable weather band is a total bonus!
This is a great vintage radio fully capable of working standalone with it's sole purpose of listening to the bands.
I wouldn't really call it portable, but it is luggable to a park or picnic but the battery weight and metal chassis pushes this thing close to 15 pounds weight.
XYL loves the sound qualilty and because of the wide/narrow bandwidth combined with tone control for AM/SSB it makes the hiss bearable.
Not ideal for amateur bands monitoring, but it will work if you have a steady hand tuning the radio.
A few years ago I had to help a family friend set up his satellite tv and sitting on his TV was a D7000Y. He helped design it! Amazing chance to meet someone who worked for Zenith from that long ago!

W8ZNX Rating: 2009-02-04
not a amateur receiver Time Owned: more than 12 months.
as a ham receiver its awful,
just try to use it on 40 cw

as a swl receiver its not so bad
but this category is receivers vintage amaterur
not receivers vintage swl
W8GTX Rating: 2005-08-17
The last American made portable SW receiver Time Owned: more than 12 months.
This is the successor to the 1000/3000 series Trans Oceanic and really the last well made American portable SW receiver. While this radio isn't quite as elegant looking as the 3000 series IMHO, it is a better performer and doesn't suffer the cosmetic issues or other short comings of the earlier model.
This model (there were actually 3 different chassis groups for this model) has better selectivity as well as an added wide/narrow filter choice, BFO, meter for batt & signal and added the 15m amat band along with the 13m international BC band. Also the VHF weather band has been added. The earlier chassis has one channel weather capability with a crystal, the latter chassis is tunable in the weather portion of the VHF band.

This radio sounds somewhat better, more dynamic than it's earlier cousin the 1000/3000 series. Sensitivity seems about the same but as stated the 7000 is more selective in a crowded band. The built in BFO works well but gets very touchy in the higher frequencies. The cabinet used in this series is also far more durable than the earlier 1000/3000 series. Things to watch for are the latter versions used vinyl sides that tend to come unglued. Other than that there aren't too many flaws with this radio. In the Zenith tradition this is also a hard wired "point to point" chassis.