That’s about when they took “Optimus”, and “Realistic” away from the Radio Shack name. Sounds like 👍 they pre planned going defunct. Radio Shack was one of the best electronics stores. This radio came out approximately 6 years before Radio Shack closed its doors 🚪. I didn’t get one ☝️ of these radios, but I’m sure I’ll find one somewhere. Roll Over Beethoven, that’s one of the best songs to hear 👂 on this. It was a great idea that Radio Shack made cardboard shims for the inside of the box 📦. Probably a little amount of bubble wrap, or Styrofoam (just enough to cover the radio), insures that ya won’t have a scratched up, or dinged up radio. Your friend, Jeff.
Around 2017 General Wireless also went bankrupt and sold the company to Radio Shack Online OpCo in 2020. They still have about 300 dealer stores around and some Express RS areas in Hobby Town USA. The RS website not longer sells or has any pocket radios. They seems to focus on the table models now.
I got a few of these from the first bankruptcy for like $3 each for the tuning they have some sorta variable pot everything is run off a main chip not much to them inside. It does have stereo sound with headphones.
pry is open but not at the top where the am antenna Rod is. you could hit the wires of the antenna rod and break them with a screwdriver if you slip. I had to solder the headphone jack because the speaker was coming on and off.
post another video of the 1978 black not white TV I like that cabinet TV 1978 I like the old batter powered radios by GE - a great find its getting harder to find a plane Jane radio. I remember realistic
The reason it tunes choppy is because its a DSP radio, in other words a tuner on a chip. Radio Shack lied by calling this an analog radio, it isn't. Many of these modern ones are the DSP type which is terrible for AM tuning. The only thing that is analog, is that dial, its basically a digital radio with an analog dial but all operation is digital. I have the earlier version of this that requires 3 AA batteries and is a true analog radio, much better than this model. I really hate it that most of these newer radios are not really analog. Anyway that is why its click click click, as you said.
I just got a new radio (just a cheap one) and the same thing happens when I tune it. I saw a review on a Sangean, described the same thing. It’s th new circuitry everybody is using. Supposed to be better but it’s lousy. Stations are there,going, but try to come back to it, not there. Back and forth, it’s there again. What a pain ‼️
Jeff King The new Sony radios dont use DSP chips (the ICF-506 does) but the ICF 26,36 and 306 are true analog radios albeit based on a chip. But they tune just like the old fashion radios did with AFC switched on.
That’s about when they took “Optimus”, and “Realistic” away from the Radio Shack name. Sounds like 👍 they pre planned going defunct. Radio Shack was one of the best electronics stores. This radio came out approximately 6 years before Radio Shack closed its doors 🚪. I didn’t get one ☝️ of these radios, but I’m sure I’ll find one somewhere. Roll Over Beethoven, that’s one of the best songs to hear 👂 on this. It was a great idea that Radio Shack made cardboard shims for the inside of the box 📦. Probably a little amount of bubble wrap, or Styrofoam (just enough to cover the radio), insures that ya won’t have a scratched up, or dinged up radio. Your friend, Jeff.
Around 2017 General Wireless also went bankrupt and sold the company to Radio Shack Online OpCo in 2020. They still have about 300 dealer stores around and some Express RS areas in Hobby Town USA. The RS website not longer sells or has any pocket radios. They seems to focus on the table models now.
I got a few of these from the first bankruptcy for like $3 each for the tuning they have some sorta variable pot everything is run off a main chip not much to them inside. It does have stereo sound with headphones.
audio quality sounds pretty good. never seen an analog slide rule radio that sounds like it has digital tuning.
pry is open but not at the top where the am antenna Rod is. you could hit the wires of the antenna rod and break them with a screwdriver if you slip. I had to solder the headphone jack because the speaker was coming on and off.
post another video of the 1978 black not white TV I like that cabinet TV 1978 I like the old batter powered radios by GE - a great find its getting harder to find a plane Jane radio. I remember realistic
The reason it tunes choppy is because its a DSP radio, in other words a tuner on a chip. Radio Shack lied by calling this an analog radio, it isn't. Many of these modern ones are the DSP type which is terrible for AM tuning. The only thing that is analog, is that dial, its basically a digital radio with an analog dial but all operation is digital. I have the earlier version of this that requires 3 AA batteries and is a true analog radio, much better than this model. I really hate it that most of these newer radios are not really analog. Anyway that is why its click click click, as you said.
I just got a new radio (just a cheap one) and the same thing happens when I tune it.
I saw a review on a Sangean, described the same thing. It’s th new circuitry everybody is using. Supposed to be better but it’s lousy. Stations are there,going, but try to come back to it, not there. Back and forth, it’s there again. What a pain ‼️
Jeff King The new Sony radios dont use DSP chips (the ICF-506 does) but the ICF 26,36 and 306 are true analog radios albeit based on a chip. But they tune just like the old fashion radios did with AFC switched on.