Archive for January, 2009

Updates to Passport to World Band Radio:
Prepared by Lawrence Magne, David Zantow and the staff and friends of Passport to World Band Radio.

Comments focused on news updates are welcome for potential publication-under 100 words, please. For traditional blogging and musings, try David Zantow’s “Radio Receiver Page” at n9ewo.angelfire.com; also, rec.radio.shortwave or any of the several Yahoo and other equipment forums.

Oops, Last Four Weeks’ Comments Are Here…

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | * Comments(6)

Ah, the blessings of fast-acting cloud computing! A push of the wrong key, and—poof!—the past four weeks’ worth of your comments went into cyber heaven. There’s no way to restore them properly, but the “dead” comments page is reproduced, with apologies, if you click here… Continue reading ‘Oops, Last Four Weeks’ Comments Are Here…’

Grundig Satellit 800 Briefly Available

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | * Comments(9)

GRUNDIG SATELLIT 800 PORTATOP

GRUNDIG SATELLIT 800 PORTATOP

Reader Steven McArdle kindly informs us that the Grundig Satellit 800, which hadn’t been manufactured or sold new for years, was available around New Year’s for $199.95 at the National Geographic shop. It rates four and 3/8 stars in the Passport RDI White Paper on the Satellit 800.

Presumably they unearthed a batch of refurbished units. If so, these will have been gone over by the venerable service department of the R.L. Drake Company, and thus are arguably a better bet than regular new units even if they were available. Indeed, many of these refurbs originally were well-intentioned gifts returned simply because the recipients had no interest in shortwave.

Alas, unless they get in a fresh supply the offer has come and gone. But some folks got one heck of a deal!

The rest of us can try quickly contacting the shop at (800) 437-5521, (888) 225-5647 or (worldwide) +1 (703) 286-2326 to see if any units have been returned to National Geo as unwanted gifts.