A great little tuner. I used to sell a lot of them to overseas customers where the SW was important. I still have mine somewhere with the matching amp and cassette deck. I got into SW and the stuff you pick up is amassing. Ham radio people talking to each other and stuff from the remote far flung corners of the earth.
I wish that Sony when they made that SW-MW-FM tuner they could of added a BFO to it to receive SSB signals such as Ham and Pirate SW signals. Well there are circuits out there to help modify that tuner to receive single sideband signals.
I tried it using a BFO kit off Ebay, it didn't work all that well, there are components in the SONY tuner that make the desired tuned frequency very bouncy and unstable and can be effected by my hand movements and rising or lowering temperature meaning it tends rise up in frequency having to continuously adjust the tuning nob on the BFO circuit every minute to stay tuned, then having to retune on my SONY with its tightly packed frequencies of 2.3 MHz to 18 MHz in just 2 bands OK for AM but can be very tricky in SSB mode. My other 1980's cassette Boombox with 2 SW bands and similar frequency span is also unstable too. I would think a radio with 4 to 8 SW bands with its ,easier to tune and more stretched out coverage would be a better option.
@@rEdf196 I listen to WTWW on 5.085 MHz and also on 9.940 MHz, I hope you can pick up that station too. If I had a stereo tuner like that, I would be hooked to that stereo receiver. I have various short wave portable radios here at home, but I would like to have something like that that gives out that warm big speaker sound when I listen to my favorite short wave broadcasts. I know they make tuners like that too as well that have LW-MW-SW and FM on them, I think I seen one along time ago. I will try to find a stereo tuner like that too soon when searching for one. Let me ask, did you use an outdoor antenna when you were listening to SW on that stereo tuner? What antenna did you use?
Excellent example of Sony high quality...It's a shame to see what has happened to them during the past couple of decades. Although hi-fi tuners with SW bands might have been rare in the USA, they were still quite common in other parts of the world.
I searched and searched but I could not find the quality review or quality, experienced instructions of SW tuning of Tuners with SW band anywhere on Internet. Its a modest claim but I think I'm the only eligible person to share a review of this tuner once I get a chance. Before that I would like to share the basic instructions to SW band radio buffs. Go to the terrace of your house. Take any long wire. Use teeth to open end of wire. Connect it to dipole of old used (now not in use, lying rusting on any terrace) TV Antenna of many pipes made of aluminium. Connect end of wire to open hole of dipole and bring wire in your living room where you are keeping Tuner (like 2950 having facility to connect AM antenna connector. Connect other end of wire. Get your electrician and arrange grounding of extra electric current. Ground well and connect to grounding point. Now try SW tuning and then share video here. I have risked my life climbing old mansion like structure where I was living on rent and had connected my Philips Tuner Amplifier like this. The corroded corrugated iron roof of that old house had all chances of slipping down and falling from 2000 ft height. That was when no Internet, cable TV, mobile had entered India and then and even today SW and MW Radio is my only recourse to happiness, listening even to weakest but farthest stations from far away countries. That's true romanticism. Kindly respond to this comment which I'm sharing on FB with link of this YT video which claims to be for SW but lacks in expertise
garethkemp84 Unfortunately the MW does not work well The frequencies are out of alignment with the tuning scale and the sensitivity is poor compared to FM and shortwave I would need someone to repair it to make the AM work better. but I use it mostly for FM listening anyways
I was a Sony main agent in London and your probably right. It defiantly the late 1970s. They made 2 very similar tuners and the only difference was one had 1 x SW band and the better and popular one has 2 x SW bands.
A great little tuner. I used to sell a lot of them to overseas customers where the SW was important. I still have mine somewhere with the matching amp and cassette deck. I got into SW and the stuff you pick up is amassing. Ham radio people talking to each other and stuff from the remote far flung corners of the earth.
I’m happy you tested SW
Nice post!
That's fantastic.
I wish that Sony when they made that SW-MW-FM tuner they could of added a BFO to it to receive SSB signals such as Ham and Pirate SW signals. Well there are circuits out there to help modify that tuner to receive single sideband signals.
I tried it using a BFO kit off Ebay, it didn't work all that well, there are components in the SONY tuner that make the desired tuned frequency very bouncy and unstable and can be effected by my hand movements and rising or lowering temperature meaning it tends rise up in frequency having to continuously adjust the tuning nob on the BFO circuit every minute to stay tuned, then having to retune on my SONY with its tightly packed frequencies of 2.3 MHz to 18 MHz in just 2 bands OK for AM but can be very tricky in SSB mode. My other 1980's cassette Boombox with 2 SW bands and similar frequency span is also unstable too. I would think a radio with 4 to 8 SW bands with its ,easier to tune and more stretched out coverage would be a better option.
@@rEdf196 I listen to WTWW on 5.085 MHz and also on 9.940 MHz, I hope you can pick up that station too. If I had a stereo tuner like that, I would be hooked to that stereo receiver. I have various short wave portable radios here at home, but I would like to have something like that that gives out that warm big speaker sound when I listen to my favorite short wave broadcasts. I know they make tuners like that too as well that have LW-MW-SW and FM on them, I think I seen one along time ago. I will try to find a stereo tuner like that too soon when searching for one. Let me ask, did you use an outdoor antenna when you were listening to SW on that stereo tuner? What antenna did you use?
I miss the sounds of analogue tuning
You are in Canada?
It is F or S ? What’s difference between S and F ?
Will u try it on MW
Excellent example of Sony high quality...It's a shame to see what has happened to them during the past couple of decades. Although hi-fi tuners with SW bands might have been rare in the USA, they were still quite common in other parts of the world.
I searched and searched but I could not find the quality review or quality, experienced instructions of SW tuning of Tuners with SW band anywhere on Internet. Its a modest claim but I think I'm the only eligible person to share a review of this tuner once I get a chance. Before that I would like to share the basic instructions to SW band radio buffs. Go to the terrace of your house. Take any long wire. Use teeth to open end of wire. Connect it to dipole of old used (now not in use, lying rusting on any terrace) TV Antenna of many pipes made of aluminium. Connect end of wire to open hole of dipole and bring wire in your living room where you are keeping Tuner (like 2950 having facility to connect AM antenna connector. Connect other end of wire. Get your electrician and arrange grounding of extra electric current. Ground well and connect to grounding point. Now try SW tuning and then share video here. I have risked my life climbing old mansion like structure where I was living on rent and had connected my Philips Tuner Amplifier like this. The corroded corrugated iron roof of that old house had all chances of slipping down and falling from 2000 ft height. That was when no Internet, cable TV, mobile had entered India and then and even today SW and MW Radio is my only recourse to happiness, listening even to weakest but farthest stations from far away countries. That's true romanticism. Kindly respond to this comment which I'm sharing on FB with link of this YT video which claims to be for SW but lacks in expertise
yet another nice sony product. i hve a sony icf 2010 u will love one of those.
Nice can u do a video of u tuning it on MW?
garethkemp84 Unfortunately the MW does not work well The frequencies are out of alignment with the tuning scale and the sensitivity is poor compared to FM and shortwave I would need someone to repair it to make the AM work better. but I use it mostly for FM listening anyways
FIRE DRAKE Chinese Jammer 04:05
I'm pretty sure this receiver came out in 1977
I was a Sony main agent in London and your probably right. It defiantly the late 1970s.
They made 2 very similar tuners and the only difference was one had 1 x SW band and the better and popular one has 2 x SW bands.
Sounds like you're from BC lol
bad camera...