Bill; "Lucky enough to find one" is probably right on. In 30+ years of going to Yard Sales, Flea Markets and Goodwill (Thrift) stores, I saw ONE Superadio - and I bought it. It was a SR II. It was listed as $5 but I bought it along with an electric lawnmower and with a discount, basically got the SR for free. It sure was beat up but the radio was playing just fine. I wondered why she (the seller) simply unplugged it. After getting it home and putting 6 new D batteries in it, I literally jumped because it came right on. Someone obviously tried to do a dial cord fix and messed up the fragile power switch. My orig 1981 SR works good on FM but gets only two AM's - and they are local and the volume control has to be maxed out to get them.
The SR III's must have not sold well at all. In 2002 at a Department store in New Castle, Indiana, they had them stacked in a pyramid and they were TWENTY TWO dollars. That stack never moved in two months as the stack had the same packing marks in the same place. I bet that they did not sell a single one! Now AM-FM sets just aren't selling. They need an ipod dock, an MP3 jack, the weather band or some gimmick to sell. I wonder when Sony will pull our beloved ULR's? 73's Dave in Indy ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:59:28 -0400 (EDT) From: bill kral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IRCA] IRCA # 49-42 GE SR 3 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 It looks like the SR3 is historee as I haven't seen any on the shelf here at the local London Drugs outlets in Victoria,so I guess nobody was interested in them as they were retro looking and operating and also not as efficient in performance as the previous models such as maybe a run off the assembly line without going through allignment tests,etc.as I checked more than one and found that the dial indicator was a couple of numbers off the mark of a signal on both AM and FM and they don't sound as good as the older ones which were good for the odd time that music was preferred over talk or search.A good place to look would be at yard sales if you're lucky enough to find one.Bill in [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected] End of IRCA Digest, Vol 49, Issue 43 ************************************ _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
