[bars] Looking for suggestions for good AM Broadcast Table Top Radio Receiver

[Stephen Crook]


C. Crane’s CCRadioEP?
http://earmark.net/gesr/

RCA SuperRadio III (clone of the discontinued GE SuperRadio III and its predecessors)?

Alas, AM (ancient modulation?) radio is all but dead these days... 
sad, for how is one to listen to out-of-town baseball at night, thru the lightning crashes of far away storms, w/o AM?

See also: https://www.universal-radio.com/ similar to HRO

Steve — KB1LKR
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> On Mar 23, 2021, at 3:37 PM, Steven Schultz <steven.schultz.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> It seems the club has several Shortwave and AM Broadcast Radio Listeners.
> 
> After a fair amount of discussion with the Sat AM Zoom meeting and speaking with my brother who is the one looking to improve his AM radio reception I thought I would ask BARS for comments.
> 
> For AM radio reception my brother seems to want to limit his choice to a
> tabletop radio with good AM radio reception, includes FM broadcast radio reception, good audio, and if needed an external tabletop AM loop antenna about a foot in diameter.
> 
> Radio receiver in $200 price range.
> Loop antenna in $20-30 price range.
> 
> He is excluding radio over the internet and WiFi radio.
> Also excluding SDR.
> 
> Not presently concerned with SW listening.
> 
> I suggested he look at radio manufacturers like:
> C. Crane
> Sangean
> Grundig
> 
> What about Sony?
> 
> AM Loop Antennas from:
> Kaito
> Tecsun
> Terk
> 
> Model: AN-200.
> 
> I also mentioned radio equipment suppliers like:
> Crutchfield (He said he could not find tabletop radios here)
> Ham Radio Outlet ( for SW listener receivers )
> DX Engineering  ( for SW listener receivers )
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
> AC1EX
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