Here's a Sony ICF-6500W receiver up on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=15 051

They were a decent enough portable, I had one for about 10 years, I wore
it out I used it so much.

I think I payed $100 for mine on close-out from Universal. As I said, it
was a decent enough portable, but not so sure about the $249.00 price!

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:58:47 -0500, N8KDV
wrote:

Here's a Sony ICF-6500W receiver up on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=15 051

They were a decent enough portable, I had one for about 10 years, I wore
it out I used it so much.

I think I payed $100 for mine on close-out from Universal. As I said, it
was a decent enough portable, but not so sure about the $249.00 price!


Who knows? Some newbie may make a bid.

According to DXING.COM: New Price: $210-270 Used Price: $100-130.
I dunno where he got his absurdly high asking price. Looks like he did
a little research on the web as he stole the description *verbatim*
from: http://www.dxtools.com/BestDXrx.htm (scroll down into the
"Portables")

Price too high for this item by about 175 bucks these days.
H


...On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:56:30 GMT, Herbert West
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:58:47 -0500, N8KDV
wrote:

Here's a Sony ICF-6500W receiver up on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=15 051

They were a decent enough portable, I had one for about 10 years, I wore
it out I used it so much.

I think I payed $100 for mine on close-out from Universal. As I said, it
was a decent enough portable, but not so sure about the $249.00 price!


Who knows? Some newbie may make a bid.

According to DXING.COM: New Price: $210-270 Used Price: $100-130.
I dunno where he got his absurdly high asking price. Looks like he did
a little research on the web as he stole the description *verbatim*
from: http://www.dxtools.com/BestDXrx.htm (scroll down into the
"Portables")


Retired Teacher, Terrible Mechanic, Worse Plumber!
LPFM Page: http://home.att.net/~optcamel/fmradio.htm

The way the auction is setup, you'd be foolish to bid on it. The buy it
now is the same as the starting bid.

I think it's a bit pricey though.


"N8KDV" wrote in message
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Here's a Sony ICF-6500W receiver up on eBay:


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=15 051

They were a decent enough portable, I had one for about 10 years, I wore
it out I used it so much.

I think I payed $100 for mine on close-out from Universal. As I said, it
was a decent enough portable, but not so sure about the $249.00 price!

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

N8KDV wrote in
:

Here's a Sony ICF-6500W receiver up on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...1629&category=
15051

They were a decent enough portable, I had one for about 10 years, I
wore it out I used it so much.

I think I payed $100 for mine on close-out from Universal. As I said,
it was a decent enough portable, but not so sure about the $249.00
price!

That's awfully expensive, but as I recall some recent eBay auctions of
6500Ws went for nearly that much. It must be nostalgia.

That said, I still have mine, bought in the early eighties on close-out for
about $70. It's used infrequently but does have nice audio. I keep it in my
boys' room, hoping to spark a shortwave interest at some point.

Speaking of radios, I noticed that Britain's Prince Philip appears to be a
shortwave fan:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...20/nque220.xml

I'm guessing that this is the Roberts R871, which is in that price range.

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