The PERFECT Radio of Today

[Bongwater]

In the PERFECT radio, this thing will need several things:

- EXTRAORDINARY performance in EVERY SINGLE item below.

- Full touch-screen readout and a selection of customizable colored lighted backgrounds and eye-pleasing fonts (also with customizable colors) Add a customizable space for image display (Or you can add your own images.) Include a full web browser with Flash, download capability and touch screen keyboard. Again, everything at high speed and automatically updating.

- AM (500-1800 kHz)

- FM (64-108 MHz capability for universal FM coverage)

- Full Shortwave (1.80-30.00 MHz)

- Long Wave (150-500 kHz

- Aircraft

- Weather

- Ham

- Low VHF (30-64MHz)

- CB

- WiFi/WiMAX/Mobile Internet Radio/Video streaming and browsing in all formats. With direct web address input.

- AM Stereo

- DRM capacity

- Sensitivity, selectivity and image rejection on ALL bands.

- External antenna inputs

- Rugged high performance unbreakable antennas

- Select-A-Tenna like booster antenna for LW/AM/SW

- Very high quality audio (LARGE amplified stereo speakers with a full balanced 20 band equalizer.)

- 128kbps to 320 kbps recording/playback bitrates, using the very best codecs available in all formats.

- Switchable stereo/mono FM selection

- Long battery life. Minimum 12 hours full usage per charge. Worldwide AC/DC operation capacity with noise filtering and surge protection.

- Minumum 500 GB internal memory, 8 GB of RAM

- Tough construction.

- Signal level display

- HD Radio capacity (can be switched on/off

- Full RDS Display

- 1,000 channel memory. Can be arranged in any order. By direct number, band, alphabetically, frequency, format, location, etc.

- Memory card/USB inputs/output to computer.

- Full onboard audio editing suite.

- Line out

- Stereo headphone jack

- Fairly compact size.

- And a partridge in a pear tree. (Optional)

Anything I'm missing?

 

[crainbebo]

You missed a DSP chip, for FM. With the DSP chip built into the Grundig G8, that's why I've gotten the excellent performance of stations in Dupont [Yakima pipeline] and Olympia [CFMI 101.1 over 160 mi and listenable ID].

-crainbebo

 

[cd637299]

How about....

A way to repel IBOC hiss from the sidebands on FM? (If only there was a way----I say if a station wants to run HD, cool, if there's some sorta way to hear adjacent frequencies; but that's outta the question.)

Of course, a radio that can properly separate 87.5 & 87.6 (and up the dial) for FM, 530 & 531 and up for AM, etc etc.

One that repels all power line/PC buzz....

OK I will wake up now.

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[crainbebo]

Any way to have a radio that gets KSWW and KINK 365 days out of the year?

-crainbebo

 

[BobOnTheJob]

Ability to operate within say 1 mile of any AM or FM station and not suffer any degradation in reception capabilities. That exists (the McIntosh MR-78 is a good example), but today's DSP based radios seem to become less sensitive near FM transmitters. One would think that this basic capability would have improved over the past 30 years, not went backwards.

 

[kilokat7]

In the PERFECT radio, this thing will need several things:

Yes, it's called SDR - Software Defined Radio SDR and a netbook computer can satisfy many of your points already in a relatively small and lightweight package.

 

[K6JHU]

"Yes, it's called SDR - Software Defined Radio SDR and a netbook computer can satisfy many of your points already in a relatively small and lightweight package."

Beat me to it. But for some reason it is not cheap. Nicest thing about a SDR and a comptuer is the waterfall display. See what is on the band and snap right to it.

I am not sure though that DRM comes with any radio except at a price.

 

[borderblaster]

Automatic translation of any foreign language transmission. It should warm up my car too

 

[Icangelp]

A price of $79.95 including eternally charged batteries and the cost of shipping.

 

[radioman148]

The perfect radio of today would be any radio capable of listening to the AM band the way it was in the 60s with lots of clear channel stations and a lot less clutter.

 

[crainbebo]

And a radio that can get KDIX 1230 in Dickinson, ND, all night long with little interference, along with other Midwest GYs and WABC 770 under KTTH.

-crainbebo

 

[cd637299]

The perfect radio of today would be voice-activated....you just call out the name of the station you wanna hear, and it'll show up; never mind that a local is operating on the same frequency.

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[kenglish]

.........I am not sure though that DRM comes with any radio except at a price.

There's no licensing fee involved in DRM (Digital radio Mondiale, not that other one). You do have to have the software, though.
I think WinRadio still sells the software for folks like us, which gives the ability to do some "tech-ie" analyzing (graphs and such).

 

[radioman148]

And a radio that can get KDIX 1230 in Dickinson, ND, all night long with little interference, along with other Midwest GYs and WABC 770 under KTTH.

-crainbebo

You were born a little too late. In the 60s I heard WABC in Seattle. The 770 there (I forgot their old calls) used to sign off at sunset then.

 

[austingrace]

No touch screens please or else it's out of the question for me. Unless they do like a voiceover on the iPhone. Voiceover is the screen reader on the iPhone and it tells me what I'm doing on the phone. You can read the manual about it or look it up on youtube.

 

[ddsparxx]

A portable radio with an RF-tuned 10-inch ferrite bar antenna, double or triple conversion, wide/narrow bandwidth on AM, 110 kHz filters in the FM IF and capable of hearing no noise from flat screen TVs, computers and appliances.

 

[Bongwater]

And a radio that can get KDIX 1230 in Dickinson, ND, all night long with little interference, along with other Midwest GYs and WABC 770 under KTTH.

-crainbebo

You were born a little too late. In the 60s I heard WABC in Seattle. The 770 there (I forgot their old calls) used to sign off at sunset then.

They were KXA (now KTTH)

 

[BobOnTheJob]

The perfect radio of today would be any radio capable of listening to the AM band the way it was in the 60s with lots of clear channel stations and a lot less clutter.

No price would be too great to pay for that radio sir!

 

[radioman148]

The perfect radio of today would be any radio capable of listening to the AM band the way it was in the 60s with lots of clear channel stations and a lot less clutter.

No price would be too great to pay for that radio sir!

I still have the radio I used, a Zenith Trans Oceanic. I'm afraid if I turn it on now it will sound like all the other radios today.

 

[radioman148]

And a radio that can get KDIX 1230 in Dickinson, ND, all night long with little interference, along with other Midwest GYs and WABC 770 under KTTH.

-crainbebo

You were born a little too late. In the 60s I heard WABC in Seattle. The 770 there (I forgot their old calls) used to sign off at sunset then.

They were KXA (now KTTH)

Thanks for reminding me.