Thanks for the suggestions,

To answer some of the questions:

- The problem occurs plugged in and with batteries. I let it sit
overnight and nothing changed.

The current behavior is for the radio to display CAL for several seconds
and then turn off, but once or twice it did go from CAL to "150" like it
normally would... but then turned off a few seconds later.

Not sure if this is a sign, but I did notice that in recent weeks before
it finally died that the radio station wasn't clear. Sounded like there
was another station in the background. And this was a local AM station
that used to be clear. So maybe some component has been slowly failing.

unless someone can provide a fix I can do myself, it doesn't seem
practical to send this in for repair when a similar radio icf-7600 can
be had for $150. I love the sw55, but it is 10 years old. I had a Sony
Watchman that died after a similar time period. I wonder if Sony uses
similar component in both and they eventually fail.


In article 4Ib2c.187520$uV3.786758@attbi_s51,
"Brian Denley" wrote:

Boy that's long way down from the ICF-SW55!

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"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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jeff wrote:

Anybody have any experience with this?

After 10 years of flawless operation, my sw55 stopped working last
night. I turned on the radio and set the sleep timer to 30 min as usual.
After 5 minutes, the radio turned off. When I tried to turn in back on,
it came up with the "cal" on the display and there was a faint hiss from
the speaker. After 30 seconds, the radio turned off again instead of
displaying a station. I tried pushing buttons, jiggling the antenna,
using the reset button, unplugging for a while, changing batteries, but
the behavior is the same.

Has my tuner died? Is there a way to repair it that won't cost more than
the radio is worth? This radio has spent its life sitting on my
nightstand and is in otherwise perfect condition. it would be a shame to
trash it.

Any ideas?

Thanks

You probably blew a capacitor. And no it's not worth fixing. Go to ebay
and buy a Degen 1102.