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Best Analog Walkman for FM

The Insignia portable HD radio is a great little receiver. It's not analog though, and it decodes HD.

You'd be hard pressed to find a portable analog tuning radio that has the performance of a modern car radio. The Insignia HD radio rivals my car radio with just the headphone cord as an antenna. It blends to mono to minimize static. The only problem is that it cannot be forced to analog so if a local station has its HD1 out of sync, that station is for all intents and purposes unlistenable in the zone where the HD fades in and out, which is most of its coverage area.

The Grundig G8 is also a great portable radio for all bands. It is better than the Insignia HD radio for sensitivity, but it doesn't get HD and it has the annoying soft muting feature so I don't listen to it when moving around. It is great for DXing in a fixed location. It has a field strength meter so that's useful for optimizing the signal strength while DXing or for hunting down pirate stations.
 
I have a couple walkmans..

But I use most is my Sony WM-FX281

Does te old Sony Walkman's from te 80's have the best FM sensitivity for analog
 
MarioMania said:
I have a couple walkmans..

But I use most is my Sony WM-FX281

Does te old Sony Walkman's from te 80's have the best FM sensitivity for analog
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Actually yes, I was at work back in the 80s picking up KDJK 95.1, (now KHOP) clear during the tuley winter fog in Fresno, with no interferance from KBOS 94.9, which today is hard to do on digital tuners.
 
The Grundig G8 is also a great portable radio for all bands.
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I have the G8 and the FM sensitivity is great, as good as my Sangean PR-D5.

You get FM in momo with the speaker but it's in stereo with headphones.

I paid $50 for mine. The SW reception is real good for the size of the radio and antenna.
 
I've long used the Sony WM-FX271 (have had it for well over a decade). Given my location, I regularly get stations like 101.9 The Giant and 103.5 The Eagle (both from Sydney, Nova Scotia, across the Cabot Strait) whenever the conditions are good. Sometimes they come in VERY STRONG like they were locals. A couple of summers ago, while walking around town, I picked up on it 93.7 Bob FM from near the North Carolina border, which came on one of those freak occurrences. (I'd normally get CBC Radio from nearby St. Andrew's on that frequency.)
 
Not analog, but I love the sensitivity of my Sandisk Sansa Clip's FM radio. I get regular reception of around 70 miles with it and up to and over 100 miles during tropo using only the earbuds as an antenna near a window. The built in FM recording also makes it great to record DX on the go.

I find most portable analog tuning devices to be too much of a pain to tune since you have to be so precise with the knob.
 
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