Grundig has been a Chinese brand for decades, but it was slapped on multiband portables for years.(Maybe still is. I'm no longer using a radio for shortwave reception, preferring the SDRs on the web.) Some of those receivers were low-end junk, but I'm sure more than a few SWLs bought them on the promise of German craftsmanship implied in the name on the radio.
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New Pocket Radio at Walmart
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That's nothing new. Remember that back in the 1980s, a group of Israeli investors revived the Packard Bell name and put it on cheap Korean-built computers. It gave them instant brand recognition from the Packard Bell radios and TVs of decades past, plus non-incidental association with Hewlett Packard and the recent proliferation of post-AT&T-breakup "Baby Bells".
My first computer, bought in 1999, was an NEC, which I later found out was a rebranded Packard Bell. It actually worked quite well for my non-resource-intensive uses and lasted me nearly a decade.
Good story from my perspective as I have spent the last 4 days assembling my new main computer using parts from about a dozen different brands: BeQuiet!, Asus, Corsair, WASD, Noctua, Seagate, Western Digital, Redragon, Huanuo, AMD, Crucial, High Point, G.Skill, and ASRock.
How many of those brands even have two decades of history?
Asus (1989), Seagate (1979), Western Digital (1970), and AMD (1969) for sure. The rest I've never heard of.
So less than a third have any kind of heritage at all! That explains why some Asian manufacturers buy old American or European brands and slap them on current products... cheap recognition.
Totally off subject sidebar showing how new brands have become leaders in tech fields (Tesla, anyone?):
BeQuiet!; Best cases anywhere, with lines of power supplies and cooling fans and radiators. From Germany.
Corsair: Cases to great mice to memory to good ready-to-boot computers.
WASD: world's best mechanical keyboards, fully customizable and fully expensive. Even in many languages.
Noctua: Great liquid coolers, best ever thermal paste.
Reddragon: Low cost but great mice and accessories like mouse pads and wrist pads.
Huanuo: Very good motorized lift & lower desks for those who like to sit sometimes and stand other times.
Crucial: Very good SSD and RAM memory and other products.
HighPoint: Plug and Play RAID cards that can use new generation SSDs and get huge I/O numbers.
G.Skill: My favorite RAM for overclocking and best for 128gb and over sets.
ASRock: A good choice in premium video cards, most are overclockable.
I should have had my radio inside with me, but it is inside now. I might have been able to get information. I knew nothing.
If I report an outage, normally they know I have one and how many are affected, and if it is isolated, an estimated time. That wasn't the case when I first reported it. Later, they said how many were affected and that crews were on the way. No estimate of how long, but there were widespread problems.
Hours later they still said crews were on the way, so I pressed zero to talk to a person, which is the only way I got through the first time because they didn't make clear how to report the outage. The person knew a crew had arrived. Don't know what they did for hours, but I didn't hear any tree work until long after I got tired of reading the actual newspaper with a flashlight. I would have read what might be considered old news after getting though on the computer, but I had plenty to read and spent more time on it than I would have.
I had one when the radio in my car quit working back in 2006 or so. Then I got a "new" car.
Asus is who made the monitor I am using right now.
And nobody knows how to pronounce it:}
Ay-suse
Ahz-oose
Ahz-us
Ace-us
Ah-suz
Ah-sus.
Ass-us (my favorite illogical pronunciation)
Uh-sus
And so on.
Gesundheit
It’s only pronounced like this when it breaks!
Fortunately, it's my favorite brand because I've never had any product from them fail within a normal lifespan. The core of my new system is an Asus WRX80-E-Sage motherboard.
Crucial has been around since 1996. They were created by Micron in the mid 90s, I guess to create distance between the PCs they manufactured under the Micron name, and their memory products.
The very best lightweight portable radio you can buy right now (for about $120) has the brand name "QODOSEN" emblazoned on it. It's been available for only a couple of months. The previous best model was branded "XHDATA."
Those aren't even companies, exactly - and does it matter? They're fantastic little radios that are way more advanced than the Sonys I used a generation ago, which also cost 10x as much when adjusted for inflation.
Those aren't even companies, exactly - and does it matter? They're fantastic little radios that are way more advanced than the Sonys I used a generation ago, which also cost 10x as much when adjusted for inflation.
I had an Asus router/AP fail but not for the reason you might expect. The spring that kept the power switch down in the "on" position broke. The electronics were fine. After that, I bought another Asus router and it had improved capabilities even though it was nominally the same model. I was using it until we sold the California house late last year. Works great with cable-based services and probably would've been fine with my current fiber service but the fiber provider threw in their own router/AP as part of the service package.
I've considered Asus products in the past, and might again under the right circumstances.
I might buy one to try DXing on it
OK, where can I get the Qodosen radio. I searched Amazon and got much weirdness but not one of those.
I had an ASUS laptop for about 3 years - I bought it primarily because it was on sale, and at the time I got a lot of laptop for the price. That said, it became slow and a bit "glitchy" after several months so I bought an HP to replace it. It worked so well I'm now on my second HP. I generally don't wait until things like laptops fail to replace them, and generally try to shop during Black Friday season (it's no longer just a day for many retailers) when one can sometimes get the best bang for their buck, sometimes directly from the manufacturer.
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Most likely Scott's referring to the radio reviewed in this article:
Qodosen SR-286 AM/LW/FM/SW High Performance Portable
Note, this model is now available in an updated Official Export version as the DX-286 here in the US and other areas. Read the Qodosen DX-286 Article There are a few other radios available which us…
radiojayallen.com
-> which includes a link to AliExpress to purchase for shipment to the US:
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