yes..this is also true, I'm just saying from what I saw...the degen 1102 was
a fairly nice radio for its price.
all valid points though
-John
Perhaps some people expect such high-dollar performance from low-cost
radios
because other people make claims like John's (not that he's 'wrong', it's
his
opinion)... but I'd safely say that a Degen or Kaito 1102 radio would not
satisfy me nearly as fully as the Drake R8B did, or the Icom R75 does, and
while a lot of that qualification would necessarily be based on my
listening
needs as opposed to someone else's, there's a basic feature and design gap
as
well as price gap (which is why there's a price gap at all).
Now, I'm not at all saying that cheap radios equal cheap performance
*automatically* (most of us can testify to that based on our own
experiences)
but a lower-priced radio that was not designed with features, filtering
and
stability as a higher-priced radio will necessarily be different, and
likely
inferior overall, to the higher priced radio.
But it's all relative.
It's just that sometimes, a person will read a claim of "this cheaper
radio
works just as well as (big-rig-model-here) works" and accept it at face
value,
not considering the many factors which would cause such a claim from one
reviewer or user.
I do have to say that it's neat to see the number of cheaper radios
available
now which offer some surprisingly good listening for the buck. But many of
these models have limitations (naturally) that mid-to-higher-priced radios
don't have. The gap is narrowing, to be sure, but we're still a long way
off
from a pocket radio acting like a Watkins-Johnson.
Linus