Great vintage retro find SONY ICF7600AW rare to find the best for collectors is retailer currently not available anywhere else+free shiping
It all started in the mid-'70s when shortwave listening grew very.
It all started in the mid-'70s when shortwave listening grew very popular in Japan and elsewhere. Someone at SONY figured that a truly compact shortwave set might be useful for, say, today's world traveler who wants to stay in touch with what's going on. In those days, a radio was considered portable if it fitted under an airplane seat, and most shortwave sets were quite large.
In 1982/1983, the ICF-7600(W) was replaced with the ICF-7600A(W), a model looking very similar but sporting a lot of major and minor improvements under the hood. It now used a dual conversion concept on shortwave (albeit an unconventional one that isn't as resistant to overload as "normal" ones) and received a total of seven shortwave bands retailer with increased band coverage. Selectivity and sensitivity on mediumwave and shortwave also were very good, along with decent overload rejection. The effective tone control and nice audio section and speaker were taken over from the previous model, and power consumption remained low. All in all, this was a winner for Sony and became very popular around the world, with tourists, journalists and SWLs alike. It was soon challenged by "me too" models from other companies with usually better feature sets and sometimes better, sometimes worse performance (the Panasonic RF-B50 and Toshiba RP-F11 a.k.a. Kenwood R-11 come to mind, see The competition), but the '7600A remained the most popular choice. Actually it still isn't half bad even today, although it does have its limits in terms of dynamic range and band coverage.
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sony_icf_7600aw.html
soo this is one of best sony product for collectors is currently not available anywhere else
the radio has all the original parts without missing
all buttons are working
there are two small remarks-1one battery plate is welded 2 slightly hard skew the button on the tone if it stands on H no problem need to be cleaned but i do not want to open it