Sony ICF 7601 World Receiver Portable Radio

Hello, everyone. Here is a Sony ICF-7601 World Receiver Portable Radio.
The Sony ICF-7601 has been around since the 80's.

Reception:
AM--Average to good. No DX machine, but good enough for normal listening. Requires an adapter plug to hear through both sides of your earphones. You can get the plug at Radio Shack. FM--Ok, no stereo though. SW--This is what I wanted the radio for. Off the whip, it performs well for what I paid for it. I think it has a rf pre-amp, as it's pretty sensitive and a long wire attached to the antenna over loads it often.
No SSB.
The Sony ICF-7601 is 120 x 190 x 32 mm wide and has dimensions very similar to those of its predecessors. The main front panel layout has remained nearly the same, the mechanic frequency range push buttons have been replaced by electronic keys, but the set still comes with a colored OFF push button. The left part of the receiver front is taken by the speaker grille. Most of the right half is taken by the dial window with its vertical frequency dials of the spread 60, 49, 41, 31, 25, 21, 19, 16 and 13 m shortwave bands, the dials for medium waves and the FM broadcast band are printed on the cabinet. The leftmost dial is used as long wave dial on the European and as 120 - 75 m tropical bands dial on the international version of the radio. All meter band numbers are printed in a grey - blue color and are quite difficult to read, especially when to light is ambient. The mechanical indicator for the selected shortwave band below the dial is in the same color and nearly as difficult to be identified. Below the dials, You find the sliding switch to select one of the shortwave bands and four push buttons, which act as band switches for LW, SW, MW and FM, a turquoise - greenish little push button with a is used to turn off the receiver. An additional small sliding switch HOLD can be used to prevent the electronic push buttons from switching on the radio during travel. You find the sliding control volume and the tone switch have been rearranged and are located at receiver's right small face, as well as the tuning knob which can be operated without backlash; within the broadcast bands, the frequency accuracy of the ICF-760l is around 25 kHz. At the left small face of the radio, You find a 6V DC center - negative jack to connect the external power supply and a earphones jack, the battery compartment is found at the back, the ICF-7600A needs to be powered from four UM-3 or AA size batteries.
Operating the ICF-7601 is an easy task: press the SW button to switch the radio on and to select the shortwave range, then use the sliding switch to select the desired shortwave band, position number 2 stands for the 49 m band, the selected band in indicated by a tiny mechanically moved indicator just below the frequency dial. On the band spread dial, the steps between frequency marks are 50 kHz, so You can "guess" a frequency within 25 kHz. Look out for the interval signal or the accent of the speaker from cologne somewhere between the 6.05 and the 6.10 marks for Radio Deutsche Welle on 6075 kHz. The double conversion design is far better as far as rejection of unwanted signals and mirrors is concerned, the dynamic range is improved but I would not recommend connecting an external antenna to the little receiver - it works best from the telescopic antenna. Unfortunately, the ICF-7601 covers no out of band signals or amateur radio bands nor is it equipped with a BFO for SSB or CW reception. So I do consider the ICF-76001 as a collector's item as well as a reasonable shortwave travel radio for the one's looking around for a simple analog radio without too many push buttons. The Sony ICF-7601L adds long wave coverage from 145-285 kHz, but does not have 2200-4200 shortwave coverage. I like its analogue tuning, but it doesn't have memory. It has quite good SW coverage, from around 2.5 MHz to 26.1 MHz, but with gaps in the spectrum. But I don't mind, as most of the SW stations I like to listen to are covered by the radio. Overall, a good radio for travel.

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