A look at a rare shortwave radio

A brief look at the National Panasonic DR-Q63 (RF 6300) released in the early 1980's. A very rare radio, they were expensive in their day, so I was pleased to come by this one.
A simple but very large radioe, basic in operation but a fairly good performer, typical of the era. SSB is exceptionally stable and a pleasure to operate. It has 2 well chosen bandwidths giving good results. While not a DX'er, it offers pleasant listening and satisfactory performance.
Tuning is 2 speed and fairly clunky but you soon get used to it.
Supposedly one of the last of the "Command Series" Panasonics

[@sulochanasatyan7228]

A rare gem..🙏👍

[@englishrupe01]

Wonderful....thanks for the video.

[@alialrafdeen]

Thank you so much my friend phil 73!

[@whollyunaware5185]

A gorgeous example of a rare radio. Thanks for demonstrating it for us.

[@hamandshortwaveradioirelan4773]

Well snagged Phil, that’s a good addition to any radio shack.

[@TheMajkla]

Beautiful timepiece!

[@philireland1678]

Thank you 👍

[@b.2221]

It's a beautiful radio Phil. Thank you very much for sharing your video Sir 👍 73s Tam.

[@philireland1678]

Thanks Tam. Hope all is good in beautiful Scotland!

[@b.2221]

@@philireland1678 As well as can be expected in the terrible circumstances Phil, and keeping everyone in my prayers world wide during this horrible time. Stay safe Sir 👍 73s Tam.

[@aymanalshganh6341]

That's great radio and wonderful

[@Tobinindustrial]

It's an eye catcher for sure. What a great find. A collector piece for sure. I like it.

[@philireland1678]

Thank you 👍

[@SpectreOZ]

Nice addition to the collection Phil, congratulations and thanks for sharing 👍

[@philireland1678]

Thanks for your comments, been a while since putting up a video, slackness really.
I've been playing with the Sangean ATS-803A a bit lately, a nice radio!
Cheers...... Phil

[@SpectreOZ]

@@philireland1678 Yeah I can sympathise with that I've been a little stagnant on the uploads as well, don't be too hard on yourself sometimes inspiration can be elusive, glad to hear your running the ATS 803a through it's paces a nice (but quirky) radio 👍

[@jeffking291]

Very cool ‼️
📻🙂

[@philireland1678]

Thanks 👍

[@philireland1678]

Thanks 👍

[@marccarter1350]

Are you out to make my eyes bad :-) I couldn't see anything due to the radio being in the window!

[@philireland1678]

Yes, my skills at photography are poor, I freely admit!

[@Ronin-Tongor]

Hey. How do you rate the sensitivity of this receiver to a telescopic antenna compared to Panasonic 65 and Sony 2010?

[@philireland1678]

It's quite good on it's telescopic antenna but the 2010 (2001D) is better as is the B65. It's typical of the Panasonics of that style.
Cheers..... Phil

[@gabrymir-radio]

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