The Ultimate Portable

[K7RQ]

This may be a stretch for this thread, but this does receive ham bands, so bear with me...

My brother dropped off a portable radio receiver the other day for me to check out. It was given to him by a friend who has had it sitting around for a long time. I call it a portable radio because it has a handle on top and batteries inside. But it's built like a tank and weighs 30 lbs. It's the size of a large attache case.
This is a Sony "World Zone" model CRF-230B, produced in the early '70s. This was probably Sony's answer to the Zenith Transoceanic. It has 23 bands, extending from 150 khz. to 108 mhz. with three separate tuning dials. It has three extendable whip antennas plus an assortment of terminals on the back for external antennas. It runs on 115 ac, 12 vdc (with an external adaptor/regulator) or six internal D cells. And it plays just fiine! You can see a picture of it by Googling the model number.

Hal, K7RQ

[KJ4MZE]

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/5502

Only two reviews but it gets 5 out of 5.

[VE4KV]

I have one of these, great sound !

Grundig SATELLIT 210 TR 6001
The world's most advanced radio: the incredible Grundig Satellit TR6001. A grand total of 20 Transistors, 10 diodes and 5 stabilisers gives you a coverage of VHF, MW, LW and SW 1 - 9 (including the 60 - 187 m Marine Band). SW bands 2 - 9 can be bandspread and no less than 20 tuning scales ensure pin-point accuracy. Just to describe the Satellit reads like a manual of radio technology. There's double superhet reception, automatic frequency control on VHF, RF stage using FETS. aerial trimmer, separate high frequency speaker unit, dublex drive. SW fine tuning, separate bass and treble controls, etc. etc. There are multiple input and output sockets and a host of other features which go to make this the ultimate in portable radios. Elegant black padded with chrome and satin silver trim or with wooden speaker grill and wooden padded cabinet. Supplied with an SSB (single side band) unit and TN 12 mains unit. Tune in to the Satellit orbit the world!

With grundigs development of the Grundig Satellit Amateur 210 starting in 1969, the main focus was on the layout of the newly separated ranges in the amateur band. It is for this reason that there is no continous single range for the amateur band. The only way to attain the complete dimension of the entire range without compromise was to separate each range individualy. Grundig held this development as a essential in attain max. performance. This alloud the 210 to cover not only the 7 amateur bands but alloud it to include another 49 meters of unused broadcast band. By extending the range in this fashion the tuner is able be more discrimnating in it's sensitivity and also resolted in a greater signal to noise ratio.