Product Description
Take the Sony ICF-SW7600GR radio anywhere on the planet. Your smart, worldly wise World Band Receiver Radio will know the time, and pick up all the AM(LW/MW/SW) & FM radio stations any particular corner of the world has to offer. Or stay right in your room at home, and pick up talk radio and music from far distant countries. 10 Key Direct Access(TM) with PLL Quartz frequency synthesized tuning locks onto the signal like an electronic terrier. Synchronous detection circuitry reduces annoying fading and frequency interference. Dual standby function lets you set two different alarm times, using two different radio stations DC-In jack for optional AC adapter Runs on 4 AA batteries (not included) Built-in ferrite bar antenna for AM/LW, telescoping antenna for FM/SW Dimensions - 4-3/4H x 7-1/2W x 1-1/4D Weighs 1 pound 5-3/4 ounces w/batteries Color - Gray
Amazon.com Product Description
The Sony ICF-SW7600GR world band receiver radio will keep you connected to FM, AM, shortwave and longwave stations with a PLL digital tuner. With single side band (SSB) reception, the radio will transmit with a minimal amount of interference. To further enhance listening pleasure, the synchronous detection will reduce fading and regular beats.
There are four options when tuning your selected radio station. With direct tuning, you input the desired frequency digits. Manual tuning allows you to change the frequency step by step. If you are unsure of what station you want, use the scan tuning option to have the radio stop at all hearable receptions. Finally, with preset tuning, you can recall a preset station with a single button press. You can store up to a hundred preset stations using Sony's My-memory tuning feature. To help you remember which station is which, this Sony radio allows you to label each station with up to six alphanumeric letters. There is also a ten-key direct access tuning function, letting you quickly access your top ten favorite stations.
If you plan on traveling with a radio, the ICF-SW7600GR is a good choice. Beyond the ability to tune into various radio bands, the ICF-SW7600GR also features a world clock feature. Simply select a city name and the radio will display that city's current time. With the dual clock function, it is easy to keep track of two time zones. The radio also has a useful turn-on and sleep timer. Choose two individual times and frequencies and the radio will turn on and tune to the selected station automatically. If you plan on listening to the radio as you fall asleep, use the sleep timer and the radio will turn off after approximately sixty minutes.
There are two options to power the radio. Either four AA batteries or purchase an optional AC adaptor.
What's in the Box
Sony ICF-SW7600GR World Band Radio, antenna, wave handbook and a ninety day warranty.
Customer Reviews:
Great radio.......2007-12-25
I like this radio! It has good "pull-in" power for many shortwave stations even with the supplied antenna. I hooked up a long wire antenna to the jack and can receive many stations clearly. It is compact and technically superb in all respects. The only feasture I don't like about this radio is the "page" method of programmed stations which means you have to select one of 10 pages by hitting a page button then 0-9 to selct the page. This is a minor item and would not prevent me from buying this all over again.
Sony Shortwave Radio.......2007-12-23
This is a GREAT unit. AM, FM, Shortwave, world time ... it's got it all. Very good battery life and great reception. You will not be disappointed.
The Finest Compact Portable Shortwave Receiver.......2007-12-10
I can flatly state that this radio Sony ICF-SW7600GR AM/FM Shortwave World Band Receiver with Single Side Band Reception is positively the finest compact portable shortwave (and AM/FM) receiver currently on the market. I believe that it is the finest compact portable shortwave receiver ever designed.
It is simple to operate after reading the owner's manual. It contains just the controls necessary to bring in signals clearly, thereby eliminating much complication that can cause difficulty in use.
Its main claim to shortwave fame, in addition to its overall superb design, is its inclusion of a synchronous detection circuit (as well as full single sideband [SSB] reception), available on no other currently available new receiver in its size- and/or price-class. This circuit can make the difference between hearing a station or not hearing it. It can almost totally eliminate interference from a close-by frequency. The circuit also works on the AM band and eliminates selective fading distortion, commonly heard around dawn, dusk, or evenings when listening to distant stations. (The skywave comes in slightly behind the groundwave, or the skywave itself comes in out-of-phase, and causes distortion on other radios which makes an announcer sound as though he/she has a VERY bad cold! This annoyance will not occur on this Sony.)
For shortwave listening, it is quite sensitive off its whip antenna yet is robust enough to handle a significant external antenna, should the owner decide to use one.
With this radio, the user can easily and conveniently hear, at appropriate times of the day, English-language broadcasts from England (of course!), China, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Russia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Viet Nam, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Argentina (with some GREAT tango music), India, and many, many more. Also, for those conversant in various foreign languages, there is no shortage of those as well. It is fascinating to listen to news and commentaries from these various countries and to compare equivalent news items. It is particularly interesting to see how some countries will emphasize or de-emphasize certain items and, of course, the varying opinions expressed in their commentaries are of great interest to us here in the United States.
A Sangean ANT-60 Short Wave Antenna can improve shortwave reception but is not truly necessary. (The Sangean can be plugged into the radio's antenna socket; the wind-up antenna Sony supplies with the radio cannot. It must be clipped to the whip antenna.)
Regarding AM performance, this radio is superb. If desired, its AM reception can be improved by means of a Terk Technology AM-1000 Advantage Passive AM Indoor Antenna, used inductively, but this too is not really necessary. Local stations come in, as expected, extremely well, both day and night (especially with use of the synchronous circuit) but what is unexpected is how well this relatively small radio receives long distance stations. At my location, Canada, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic often come in like locals! Other stations from around the country do so likewise. These signals come in loud and VERY clear. One would not expect such high quality performance from a radio this size. And while some other radios in this category may be as sensitive as this Sony, not one of them has the synchronous detection circuit which "cleans up" the received AM signal and makes it fully listenable.
FM sensitivity, selectivity, and capture ratio are all excellent.
This radio has been manufactured unchanged since 2001; its predecessor model (from which there were only minor changes) dates back to 1994. Incredibly, in all this time, no other manufacturer has been able to design a radio even equal to this Sony, much less superior.
Its construction quality is absolutely first-rate. It is still manufactured in Japan, unlike all other compact shortwave portables which are manufactured in Taiwan or China, and this difference really shows. Believe me, just a cursory hands-on examination or comparison between this one and any other receiver in its class will confirm what I say.
In order to buy something "better," you would have to spend at least three times the price of this radio and what you would get (the Eton E1, for example) would not be anywhere nearly as portable as this one. (Nor will its construction quality match that of this Sony.)
Some people have complained about the whip antenna being somewhat delicate. In fact, all whip antennas can be damaged relatively easily. In that regard, this Sony radio is no better nor worse than any other. In any case, however, the exact replacement antenna is available from PartStore
com. The antenna takes less than one minute to replace.
Sound quality is pretty good - great for news/talk, somewhat less so for music on FM. But even this can easily and inexpensively be corrected by means of a cable available from your local Radio Shack that will connect the radio, via its line output jack, to your stereo system.
This receiver can be powered by four 'AA' batteries - either by standard alkalines or, better and far more economically, by rechargeable 'NiMH' types. The radio is very efficient with batteries; a set lasts a very long time and, of course, rechargeable ones can be recharged over and over again.
The radio has over 100 memories (100 "regular" memories, 2 more memories for the alarm clock function, and one each for the bottom of each shortwave frequency band). These memories do NOT disappear when changing or even removing the batteries. They are totally non-volatile and will remain essentially "forever," until you manually change or delete them. Even the clock remains for several minutes while changing the batteries. If, however, you remove the batteries for a long time, then you will have to reset the clock. This is very easy to do and is the only thing necessary to reset. There are, in fact, two clocks, one of which can be set to your local time, and the other which can be set to any time zone you desire; I have mine set to UTC [GMT]. (When you set the local time, the other time zone is automatically set as well so you only have to set the clock once.)
Sony no longer offers a suitable AC Adapter for this radio. However, Radio Shack does. And the Radio Shack AC Adapter (Cat. # 273-025; the appropriate Adapt-A-Plug [free with purchase of the adapter] is Cat. # 273-1705) is not only better than Sony's original, it is smaller and lighter in weight, and less expensive, costing only $12.99. This adapter and plug can be bought at any local Radio Shack store as well as online if you wish. (It is too bad that Amazon does not sell this adapter!)
All in all, this radio, especially at Amazon's current price, just cannot be beaten in terms of value for money.
It is, in my opinion, the best value in a shortwave receiver currently on the market and, in a world full of often ephemeral electronic "gizmos," one of the few genuine electronic bargains.
Sony ICFSW7600GR World receiver.......2007-12-07
Best world receiver on the market. Had the previous model since 1987, still working perfectly. Just wanted to have another one.
Recommended to everyone.
I love this radio!!.......2007-11-12
I live in Florida and was looking for a small AA powered radio to have on hand during hurricanes. I bought a $50 Grundig but wasn't happy with it. After reading many SW/DX review sites I bought this radio.
So far I've found that all the positive statements about this radio seem to be true. The second night I had it I tuned in Radio Netherlands, Radio Japan, Radio Cairo, Voice of Vietnam, and Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I was blown away. I'm new to shortwave so maybe this is no big deal to most, but for $150 I'm getting alot of entertainment from this little radio. I thought it would sit in a box until the next Hurricane Charlie, but I'm using it every day.
Sound from the little speaker sounds like, well .... sound from a little speaker. I didn't expect anything different. It's fine for talk radio, NPR, etc. I bought a $15 pair of earbuds for stereo listening and I'm very pleased with the sound. The built in world clock is pretty cool.
As for lack of an AC adaptor, it doesn't really bother me. As I understand, the Sony adaptor created a lot of interference on the short wave bands, plus it's no longer available in the states. Universal Radio offers a non-interfering adaptor for this radio for a reasonable price.
There's a small learning curve at first but after reading the manual and flipping through "Passport to World Band Radio" I was up and running in an hour or two.
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