Re: sanding off chip markings?

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:19:07 GMT, the renowned Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Michael,


Two additional reasons I bought it:

1. I thought it would be a lot lighter to carry on plane trips than my
CD-MP3 player. Only later did I remember that it might cause
interference with the aircraft navigation.


That would most likely bring the goons out. I doubt these things would
be good in terms of EMI. Come to think of it, I don't even have an MP3
player. Now I am feeling old...


2. In case of a nuclear strike against us, or equivalent catastrophe,
having a radio like this might come in handy. (Better than nothing at
all.)


Mine almost would lose tune when one of our dogs sneezed. When walking
through the hallway here it wasn't able to play the same station from
one end to the other. Pathetic. I'd take a classy old 6-10 transistor AM
radio. Much better and runs for days on normal batteries, not some
boutique coin cells.

I'll take my old analog Panasonic RF-B20 multiband over most of the
new stuff. 'Made in Japan' quality, good speaker, and it runs for ages
off of 3 AA cells if you don't crank the volume up too much. Wasn't
particularly cheap when I bought it 15-20 years ago, but it's been a
faithful companion since.

http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/portable/rfb20.html



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
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