Hi and Congratulations on your purchase and I'm very happy to hear that you're satisfied with it.
CCrane are a very reputable company to deal with and I've had dealings with them in the past, I purchased several of their radio offerings. Now here are some comments and these are from my own personal point of view and experience and are open to debate or challenge - in fact I hope the CCrane company themselves actively challenge what I'm about to say - <smile>. The CC II Radio I bought from CCrane is an excellent performer and is built well however! this set is prone to overloading from strong AM signals nearby, a case in point here are the transmitters from my local ABC network which are 15 miles away, the CC II radio picks up these all over the band making much DX listening utterly worthless, - I don't often wish the ABC bad tidings and hope their 50 KW transmitters go off the air but in this case I wish they would at least for a few hours <smile>. -. I'm sorry to have to say this but for a company that prides itself on delivering good radios? Well I expected far better than that. I bought a CC EP radio - actually I bought 3 as none lasted too long, the analogue tuning mechanism broke in 2 of these -, these radios are the cheapest of the cheap which is most unfortunate and in my view its certainly not worth anyone wasting the $70.00 or so on 1 of these, if the set was better built and - even if it cost $30.00 - I'd certainly be more than happy to pay the extra money. I wrote about the Sangean PRD6 on the list a week or so back and I compared it to the CC EP, even though the Sangean isn't as sensitive as the CC EP I'd still recommend it over the EP for several good reasons, the first is the Sangean PRD6's far better build quality and the second is the Sangean's ability to handle strong local AM signals, again a weakness of the CC EP radio. And finally, I bought a CC SW radio - actually I bought 2 - and this is a different model from the CC Pocket as described in the original message. Again unfortunately we have an classic example of a product made on the dirt cheap and this 1 is sure! dirt cheap. The radio itself - whilst its working - sounds very nice indeed! lovely sounding AM and excellent sounding FM. FM performs very well and AM is not troubled by overloading and its at this point where I have to stop saying good things about the CC SW. When you tune around the AM band you'll find that sensitivity starts to roll off below 600KHZ, not good. The radio picks up a lot of its own processor noise on the SW bands, again not acceptable. The radio is extremely hard to navigate, the memory presets for instance are controlled by 1 button so its very difficult - unless you can see what you're doing - to get to a particular preset. The radio has no key pad so forget getting to a shortwave frequency in a hurry. And finally build quality is just non-existent, the buttons for example are shafts made out of thin plastic which press switches on the radios circuit board and these shafts can easily break. I've never owned a CC SW Pocket though I have seen for myself the awards that this radio has won, the best value for money radio in the World Radio and television Handbook for example but I've looked at the specs and I just shook my head, the CC Pocket radio is a single conversion design circuit so the short wave listener is most likely to experience spurious signal imaging across the short wave bands. Yes, you get what you pay for there's no doubt about that and if the CC Pocket suits you then fine however I prefer something a little better than that. The CC Pocket has the advantage of being small and there aren't too many short wave radios about today that equal its size so I went for something slightly bigger with some respectable specifications and that was the Sangean ATS909X. On 28/07/2013, at 1:43 AM, "Grant E. Metcalf" <theg...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > I bought one of the C Crane pocket radios and am satisfied with its > performance. The price was $59 US plus shipping and California sales tax. > It has lots of buttons which are easily identified. the top button on the > right side of the radio selects AM, FM, and the weather band. The on/off > button, volume wheel and earphone jack are on the very top. On the face of > the radio you will find 2 vertical buttons which move up and down the dial. > There are 5 buttons you can use to pre-select your preferred frequencies. > Once you have located a station you hold down one of the 5 buttons for 2 > seconds until you hear a beep and then repeat the process for the next > station you want. There are more buttons and functions which I still don't > understand and/or need at the moment. The sound is acceptable to my old ears. > There is a 60 day return policy if you decide you do not want this radio. > Hope this is helpful. - > Grant > Bartimaeus Alliance of the Blind, Inc. > Website: http://bartimaeus.us/ > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org ********** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
