Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, London Shortwave, who shared a link to this Sony CRF-V21 on eBay:
Click here to view on eBay UK.
I’m sure a Sony collector will eventually snag this rig. Thought the listing mentions no shipping outside the UK, the Seller states otherwise:
“[I]f you don’t live in uk you can arrange a courier at your own cost”
Do any SWLing Post readers own the CRF-V21? Please comment!
699 pounds for parts not working is ridiculous.
Last year there was a working one on ebay for 800$
Didn’t this radio decode FAX or RTTY? I seem to remember that when it first came out, hence the roll of paper coming out of the radio.
The Sony CRF-V21 was ‘the’ receiver to have back in the day (Cost thousands back in the late 80’s and thousands was mega bucks then!) and I remember pining for one that was on the back cover of Short Wave Magazine here in the UK, but nowadays though much better kit about and all the Fax/RTTY can be easily done on mobiles or raspberry pi’s/computers. As for the satellite stuff, the dish/LNB would cost more than the receiver now.
Actually, £699+ for an old receiver with a bust display (unobtainium) and more than likely dried out electrolytics….no thanks…collector or not, I don’t think it is worth that. Don’t get me wrong, if someone offered me one for a decent price I would bite their hand off but for a couple of hundred quid more you have an IC-7300, you really have to be sensible and stop and think, and don’t get sentimental
Agreed. Don’t like the tone of the description. Sounds like someone selling something they have no real knowledge of.
Very rare indeed … I’ve never seen this model before. But the seller sounds like a crotchety old man telling kids to “get off my lawn” … wow …