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Radio Shack Extreme DX radio

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Steve_Green

The neighborhood Tandy Store has this AM-FM-WX radio on sale for the unbelievably low price of $49.99.

The tuning on it seems comfortable. The noise in the mall was beyond belief, though, except on FM, and no one who buys a radio marketed such as this cares about FM.

Does anyone own one? How does it compare to the GE SR II or GE SR III?
 
This is my own experience & opinion. This is a cheap radio, probably with poor quality control. You may have better luck than I did.

Save you money & buy a few gallons of gas. You'll get more enjoyment from the gas than the radio. What you were hearing wasn't all mall noise. Mine is not very sensitive or selective. It also suffers from internally generated whines & other strange noises. The sound isn't bad on the stations that do come in, but to me it wasn't worth the money. I think most of the price went into the great design. It's nice looking & operationally welll thought out, but it's only a pretty box when you can't hear anything on it.

I also own an SR III & the RS comes nowhere near that of the GE.
 
i have one of these hooked up in my room next to the computer in pottsville and i listen to WMMR and WYSP out of Philly everyday with it clear as day.

works great.
 
What we need to do is go back in time to the 70s when stuff was MADE WELL and buy $1000 worth of good AM equiptment :)
 
I can just imagine going into a Goodwill store in another five years and seeing several half beat up HD radios sitting there with a 5 dollar price marked on them with a grease pencil. They will likely just be another old radio no one seems to care about collecting dust bunnies.

LOL!
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
I can just imagine going into a Goodwill store in another five years and seeing several half beat up HD radios sitting there with a 5 dollar price marked on them with a grease pencil. They will likely just be another old radio no one seems to care about collecting dust bunnies.

LOL!
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Snap them up! C-Quam enthusiasts pay a lot for C-Quam radios on eBay, in a few years the people posting here in favor of HD radio will be desperate for get their hands on receivers for the then dwindling number of stations maintaining it.
 
maybe a little off topic but if one is a local in a snowbird area and a radio enthusiast, they can probably find a number of high quality radios for a proverbial song at the thrifts particularly just after the "birds" flock back north. Why? becasue a certain % of them do a real thorough paring down of their crap (oops stuff) every few years. I have a real good quality (and sounding) radio in FLA that I paid $3 for, has a real sensitive AM tuner (manual) and real good FM sensititvity and sound quality including the infamous Bass Boost. I leave it outside most of the winter and the radio does just fine and nobody seems to want to take it.
Tandy has made a few good radios on occasion but that was long ago. I wouldn't buy any of their stuff w/o a written, no ?'s asked, $$$ back guarantee.
 
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