Please list the Chinese radios you own and use. I'm interested in hearing
your test results verifying your unbiased opinion of the Degen and Tecsun
models.
Thanks.


I would be happy to.

As soon as you place me on your payroll and hand over a check for my
services.

Who do you think I am your private consultant?

FYI - I have lived and worked in Asia, including China.
What village were you born in?

Sony is apparently getting out of the SW radio market COMPLETELY.

Oh really!? Please show us all the source of your great wisdom - Mr.
poobah.

They're gradually phasing out all of their SW radios. Most are available
only in Japan now, and in a year or two even those will be discontinued.

WoW! An insider to Sony's boardroom! Woo Hoo!

(Source: Passport to World Band Radio)

What page exactly?

As for everybody else, they're
all produced in China. Sangean? China (although they refuse to label
them as such, I don't know who they think they're fooling).
Eton/Grundig? Made by Tecsun in China, which is owned by the Chinese
Communist Party (gasp! commies!). At least the rest openly use names
like "Kchibo" so we have no doubt where they're from. It's simply
cheaper to produce everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) in a country
where people work for 10 cents a day.

Everything at WalMart, where you obviously do all of your shopping.

I'm happy with my "gray market
cheapo chino radio" and only use it for a couple hours a day, and then
not all at once so even the weird 99 minute sleep timer function doesn't
bother me.

Oh, so your just a casual shortwave broadcast listener. I rest my case.

By the way, I heard on the BBC (received on my Degen 1102)
that China is trying to control the US by buying up all our Treasury
bonds, and they're VERY happy now that the president you all love so
much has turned us into the world's greatest debtor nation.

This story is old - please read your history books, Ref: Japan circa 1980's.
They can have all the paper they can possibly burn.

All they
have to do is stop buying our debt and Bush's deficits will instantly
put us all into the poorhouse.

And The Bank of China, the Yuan currency and the Communist Party will
burn in the ash heaps of history. You ignorance is deep.

Why should China care, they've got a
billion people to sell to, they don't need America.

BwaHAHAHA - yeah, a billion people with no money - bwaHAHAHA!
Here is your dream of your billion consumers in China -

The Great Mall of China -

It takes about two days to explore Beijing's new Golden Resources Shopping
Mall - the world's largest. Minnesota's "Mall of America" is 4 million
square feet. Golden Resources, built in an impressive 20 months and opened
Oct. 24, is 6 million square feet.

With 230 escalators, more than 1,000 shops, restaurant space the size of two
football fields, and a skating rink - the Art Deco mall is a testament in
glass and steel to the communist party's desire to create a stable, happy,
middle-income consumer class.
....
The observable problem with new shopping malls in China, however, is that
they have few shoppers. While Golden officials first estimated 50,000 people
a day, only a tiny fraction of that figure can be seen.

On a recent Friday afternoon, only 20 shoppers were counted in one hour.
There may currently be too many high-end malls, and not enough high-end
earners, in urban China, some experts say.
....
A deficit of shoppers has been in evidence for several years. Many Chinese
visit fancy local malls that feature state-of-the-art buying environments
with limpid pools of interior soft light and pale, polished floor tiles that
glow pleasingly. But few cash registers ring. Mostly, ordinary Chinese buy
10-cent soft cones and have fun wandering amid the goods.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1124/p01s03-woap.html

"0ff_r/-\/\\p" wrote in message ...

Please list the Chinese radios you own and use. I'm interested in hearing
your test results verifying your unbiased opinion of the Degen and Tecsun
models.
Thanks.


I would be happy to.

As soon as you place me on your payroll and hand over a check for my
services.

Who do you think I am your private consultant?

FYI - I have lived and worked in Asia, including China.
What village were you born in?




I had a feeling you'd say something of brilliance in response.

What village were you born in?




I had a feeling you'd say something of brilliance in response.


Likewise - thud

"John S." wrote in message om...
The only chinese made radio I own so far is a Magnavox D1875 analog
unit from 1994 or so. Good little single conversion receiver with
much better audio than
comparable Sony units.

I'm tempted by the Degan 1103, but I'm a bit concerned by the several
ergonomic issues mentioned in the Radiointel review.



IMO the ergonomic issues disappear after using the radio according
to the manual. Others may have different opinions, but honestly I find
no bother in pressing the volume button and turning the knob to raise
or lower volume. After setting it for a comfortable listening level I've
rarely had to change it. I was concerned about the number buttons
being in a horizontal configuration, until I got the radio. Didn't bother
me a bit. Go for it!!!

I read you tout these cheap Degens on various forums.
Do you work for Degen or Tecsun by any chance?

"Sanjaya" wrote in message
k.net...


IMO the ergonomic issues disappear after using the radio according
to the manual. Others may have different opinions, but honestly I find
no bother in pressing the volume button and turning the knob to raise
or lower volume. After setting it for a comfortable listening level I've
rarely had to change it. I was concerned about the number buttons
being in a horizontal configuration, until I got the radio. Didn't bother
me a bit. Go for it!!!