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Searching for a radio with car-stereo like reception

lurker77 said:
Hi

I've lurked on this site for awhile and have posted on other radio-info forums before; thanks for the great site!

I'm not a devoted DX hobbyist but have always enjoyed surfing the AM-FM dial on my walkman or clock radio since childhood, my best finds were when flicking around the car radio when driving with my dad. Unfortunately I don't have the ability to drive and sitting in the garage just to listen to the radio was always a tad weird.

Does anybody know of a compact radio that provides a relatively similar reception quality to that of a car stereo? By compact, I mean something that's not much bigger that a counter-top radio or if possible something that is the nearly the size of a Walkman (I doubt that one). I'm also not looking for something that requires additional antennas, the built-in telescopic antenna is enough for me as I'm not looking into hardcore DXing.

Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Try to find a Sony XDR-F1HD (if you have an amplifier and external speakers available) or the more expensive XDR-S3HD.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
But now that you pointed out that FM doesn't suffer from using a longer whip, maybe I should have left the full 48" or so on it rather than cutting it to 31" (I keep the alan wrench handy for car washes/parking garages). It works quite well on both AM and FM. But I doubt it would pull WLS in Cincinnati...I'll have to try that one day.
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I recall sitting in the car in Valparaiso, at radio school, while on lunch in 1980, and listening
regularly to an FM rock station in Lafayette that regularly boomed in, with the antenna full length.
I tried adjusting the length and found no real changes, except approaching minimum, of course.
They weren't quieting, but they were 95% there. No limiter action at all. Still sounded great in mono.
 
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