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What Walkman, has the best reception

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What kind of portable radio, or walkman should I bring to Italy. I need one that will tune to both even and odd frequencys, and also, one with a good FM tuner, seeing as Italys stations are much shorter spaced than the U.S stations.
 
> What kind of portable radio, or walkman should I bring to
> Italy. I need one that will tune to both even and odd
> frequencys, and also, one with a good FM tuner, seeing as
> Italys stations are much shorter spaced than the U.S
> stations.

I have used an old analog tuned SRF-A1 over there. It is really nice, because at the time AM stereo was going strong. I did the narrow ceramic filter trick for FM, and got rid of that stupid "wideband filter on the headphone wire" antenna - I went directly into the antenna input with a 31 inch dangling wire - looked terrible, but I've gotten 100 mile plus reception in the US with it.

Bear in mind that the Italian FM band only goes up to 104 MHz. I believe it is illegal to have a receiver that goes up to 108 because that is their police band. But that was years ago, the law may have changed by now.
 
> > What kind of portable radio, or walkman should I bring to
> > Italy. I need one that will tune to both even and odd
> > frequencys, and also, one with a good FM tuner, seeing as
> > Italys stations are much shorter spaced than the U.S
> > stations.
>
> I have used an old analog tuned SRF-A1 over there. It is
> really nice, because at the time AM stereo was going strong.
> I did the narrow ceramic filter trick for FM, and got rid
> of that stupid "wideband filter on the headphone wire"
> antenna - I went directly into the antenna input with a 31
> inch dangling wire - looked terrible, but I've gotten 100
> mile plus reception in the US with it.
>
> Bear in mind that the Italian FM band only goes up to 104
> MHz. I believe it is illegal to have a receiver that goes
> up to 108 because that is their police band. But that was
> years ago, the law may have changed by now.
>
Try the Sangean DT210. Has excellent reception of AM and FM and is easily adjusted to the 9 kHz increments from 10. Just got back from the UK, and found it to be far more sensitive than the Sports Walkman that I took on previous trips. Smaller too. And, with better sound. Best mini radio that I've ever used.

They sell a version over there in Europe that substitures LW for TV frequencies. Never found one in a store, though they available online.

Here are the specs from JR.com: http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product_Id=3693586&JRSource=google.datafeed.SGN+DT210
 
> > > What kind of portable radio, or walkman should I bring
> to
> > > Italy. I need one that will tune to both even and odd
> > > frequencys, and also, one with a good FM tuner, seeing
> as
> > > Italys stations are much shorter spaced than the U.S
> > > stations.
> >
> > I have used an old analog tuned SRF-A1 over there. It is
> > really nice, because at the time AM stereo was going
> strong.
> > I did the narrow ceramic filter trick for FM, and got rid
>
> > of that stupid "wideband filter on the headphone wire"
> > antenna - I went directly into the antenna input with a 31
>
> > inch dangling wire - looked terrible, but I've gotten 100
> > mile plus reception in the US with it.
> >
> > Bear in mind that the Italian FM band only goes up to 104
> > MHz. I believe it is illegal to have a receiver that goes
>
> > up to 108 because that is their police band. But that was
>
> > years ago, the law may have changed by now.
> >
> Try the Sangean DT210. Has excellent reception of AM and FM
> and is easily adjusted to the 9 kHz increments from 10.
> Just got back from the UK, and found it to be far more
> sensitive than the Sports Walkman that I took on previous
> trips. Smaller too. And, with better sound. Best mini
> radio that I've ever used.
>
> They sell a version over there in Europe that substitures LW
> for TV frequencies. Never found one in a store, though
> they available online.
>
> Here are the specs from JR.com:
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.p> rocess?Product_Id=3693586&JRSource=google.datafeed.SGN+DT210
>
Thanks... Thats a nice little radio, and the price is right too.
 
> > > > What kind of portable radio, or walkman should I bring
>
> > to
> > > > Italy. I need one that will tune to both even and odd
>
> > > > frequencys, and also, one with a good FM tuner, seeing
>
> > as
> > > > Italys stations are much shorter spaced than the U.S
> > > > stations.
> > >
> > > I have used an old analog tuned SRF-A1 over there. It
> is
> > > really nice, because at the time AM stereo was going
> > strong.
> > > I did the narrow ceramic filter trick for FM, and got
> rid
> >
> > > of that stupid "wideband filter on the headphone wire"
> > > antenna - I went directly into the antenna input with a
> 31
> >
> > > inch dangling wire - looked terrible, but I've gotten
> 100
> > > mile plus reception in the US with it.
> > >
> > > Bear in mind that the Italian FM band only goes up to
> 104
> > > MHz. I believe it is illegal to have a receiver that
> goes
> >
> > > up to 108 because that is their police band. But that
> was
> >
> > > years ago, the law may have changed by now.
> > >
> > Try the Sangean DT210. Has excellent reception of AM and
> FM
> > and is easily adjusted to the 9 kHz increments from 10.
> > Just got back from the UK, and found it to be far more
> > sensitive than the Sports Walkman that I took on previous
> > trips. Smaller too. And, with better sound. Best mini
> > radio that I've ever used.
> >
> > They sell a version over there in Europe that substitures
> LW
> > for TV frequencies. Never found one in a store, though
> > they available online.
> >
> > Here are the specs from JR.com:
> http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.p>
> rocess?Product_Id=3693586&JRSource=google.datafeed.SGN+DT210
>
> >
> Thanks... Thats a nice little radio, and the price is right
> too.
>
If you have a video ipod or ipod nano, you could get the radio remote, which can tune into even and odd frequencies. No AM radio though. The cool thing about the ipod radio remote is that it supports RDS. I have one and it works good. The RDS feature could be better though. If the signal if even just a little fuzzy, the RDS doesn't work that great. And it lowers the battery life for the ipod but I find it kind of useful knowing that to listen to the radio I don't have to drag my portable CD player everywhere I go. Although the RDS feature could be better, I feel that overall reception is pretty good.
 
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