--- On Sun, 5/31/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Tecsun PL-300WT DSP-enhanced Ultralight Radio--Amazing 
> Performance
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, May 31, 2009, 2:13 PM
> 
> 
> 
> Given the performance of the
> PL-300WT, why they would dumb it down to the G8 is anyone's
> guess. 
> Perhaps Grundig believes that such a radio should be a
> little bigger, and
> that North American consumers don't need, aren't savvy
> about, and/or don't
> want the restricted bandwidth of, DSP?
> 
> 
>

Here's one guess - Most of the rest of the world isn't using IBOC to achieve 
digital AM. The US is. To the extent that Grundig's sales of portables is 
skewed to the US, that could be the answer to your question.



Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<[email protected]>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Modified Sony ICF 2010 barefoot


      
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