Sony ICF-SW55 Shortwave AM FM Radio Receiver Complete Ensemble NICE UNIT

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Sony ICF-SW55 Shortwave AM FM Radio Receiver Complete Ensemble NICE UNIT:
$349.95

This worldband receiver is a Sony ICF-SW55 that appears to be ingood overallcosmetic condition.There are some minor signs of use, but nothing truly outstanding. However, the fabric cover that stores the radiohas some light staining on it and the rear tilt prop is missing. The unit has been tested and works beautifully withexcellent sensitivity and no known issues. Please look closely at my pictures found at the bottom of this listing.

Included in the sale arethe SW55 radio in it\'s travel case, fabric protective cover, adaptor toallow a wire antenna to plug into the radio, user manual, Sony Wave Handbook, Sony \"How To Catch The Wave\" book, reel antenna,copyof the service manual, AC adaptor, copy of an advertisement, warranty card (no longer valid), copy of anadvertisement,and receiver reviews. In addition, this ensemble comes with a CD that contains the manuals and a couple of other documents pertaining to the SW55 radio.

If you are looking for a nice shortwave radio in fantastic overall condition, this Sony SW55may be a consideration for you and I am providing some additional informationas follows.

The SW55 has some really neat features that are not often foundon shortwave radios and it is a great radio to have at home for radio receptionor to take on the road during travel. Forreception, the SW55 receives Longwave from 150 to 530khz, Mediumwave from530-1700khz (AM broadcast), Shortwave from 1701 to 30000 khz, and FM from 88 to108 mhz. Because it receives all of theprimary entertainment and communication bands, this radio is a great all aroundradio for casual or even emergency use.

Sony has really done a fantastic job of design with the radioand the SW55 has many important features and a couple other features not oftenfound on other receivers. The designersof the SW55 have really outdone themselves with the feature laden set and indoing so, have made it really compact. It measures only 7 1/2 inches by 5 inches andis about the size of a paperback book. Typicallya portable radio\'s size is somewhat somewhat determined by the need to have aspeaker on the front, and thus, a radio is often larger to accommodate thespeaker and operating controls. Well,the Sony engineers designed a way around this....by placing the speaker on theback of the radio and having a sound duct that directs the reception to thefront through a letterbox port. You cansee this port by looking just above the large LCD display as can be seen here. The sound is surprisingly stout for such asmall receiver:

Another neat feature of thisradio is the way you can locate world time (also known as Universal Time). If you press the world time button you can seeeither local or world time as it relates to the world map on the display. Lines will actually appear on the screen toshow you the location of the time pressed. What I find helpful is that once you program inyour local time, you can press the night / time diff button and the worlddisplay will show you a world map highlighted by lines depicting night time inthe affected areas of the world. Thus,when you listen on shortwave, you can get an idea of the time and the daylightas it is shown across the world. Reallycool !

The radio has up to 125 memoriesand many of the shortwave broadcasters main frequencies are already programmedinto the radio. You call up the page ofthe station you want to hear and can press the memory button to tune into thestation. If you happen to tune aroundand hear a station, you can actually save it to one of the pages for futurerecall. The pages actually have alphacharacters so that you can easily identify which page you are on as the pagewill read \"BBC\" or \"CANADA\" or something else, but you getthe idea. Think of it as an electroniclogbook.

Using the radio and it\'s advancedfeatures is rather easy to master due to it\'s intuitive layout. However, there is a substantial user\'s manualincluded and I am also including the manual on CD with the radio to assist withthose features that may require a little more learning. This manual is printed in several languagesmaking it very universal. The radiooperates on 4 AA batteries that are not included or the AC adaptor that is included.

This receiver also receivesamateur radio signals as it can translate from upper or lower sidebands andeven has 2 bandwidths to be able to eliminate side channel interference whenlistening on shortwave. While it does notwork as well as a professional amateur desktop receiver on sideband, thetranslation certainly is good enough to satisfy for casual listening andimpressive in it\'s own way.

As for the bandwidths, there is achoice of wide or narrow to balance fidelity vs side channel interference. You would leave the Sony SW55 in the widebandwidth for most listening. However,if the band is crowded, you would shift into narrow to slice the signal better.This is not unlike shifting a vehiclefrom 2 wheel to 4 wheel drive in more difficult circumstances and it is a nicefeature to have available.

I could go on and on about allthe features and how to use them...the sleep and recording timers, built inalarm clock, tone control, sensitivity control, various methods of tuning,programming, etc. but this has been covered in other professional columns. If you want to read more, I suggest you lookat these pages:

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Eham.net offers some greatreviews for this radio that help the reader realize what an outstanding radiothis is. You may find the Eham reviewshere:

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And for those owners that want toget more from the radio and share their knowledge, Yahoo has a user\'sdiscussion group. You would find ithere, but you need to sign up to use it.

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For those living outside the USA,I am happy to ship to you as well. Youmay use the shipping calculator to determine your cost. I have had a lot of experience with overseasshipments and had great results in doing so and have shipped to over 50countries internationally with good results.

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