Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Anderson, who writes:
Just to let you and and your readers know that the AR1780 has had a price drop – NZ$99 and AU$89 at Jaycar.
https://www.jaycar.co.nz/compact-world-band-radio-with-ssb/p/AR1780
https://www.jaycar.com.au/compact-world-band-radio-with-ssb/p/AR1780
That is a great price for the AR-1780! Thanks for sharing, David!
FYI: if you live in the US and want to purchase directly from Jaycar, check out this post. Click here to read our review.
As of 12/06/18, the US Jaycar site has it for $95.00US, with $15.00US shipping. Most of the Ebay sellers of the the AR1780 are adding huge shipping feeds, and the XHDATA D-808 is running about the same or a little more with shipping. For those that are not aware, the two radios are mostly identical. Case and button styles are a bit different. The D-808 comes with a Lithium Ion battery, charging cable, soft case, etc. The AR1780 comes with no accessories at all but uses AA batteries if that’s important to you. With the accessories the D-808 is a better “deal”, but for what it’s worth I prefer the buttons on the AR1780.
It took Jaycar more than two weeks to answer my E-mail, last time the hipe was on the AR-178O, to see if they will ship it to Israel.
I did not wait that long I ordered the D808 instead, it was cheeper and faster.
As it turns out they would NOT sell it to me at the special price and ship it to the US. I was told it was only for AU and NZ customers. I was referred to the US site which has it at full price + shipping.
Oh Well
It looks like the 1733 is also on sale: https://www.jaycar.com.au/pll-world-band-radio/p/AR1733
$49.95 AU is also a great price. I may be calling them tonight and ordering one the other or both. We’ll see. I also noticed while poking around that they have a US website but it does not reflect this sale. I will report back.
CCRadio-SWP and Redsun RP300 are the same as the Digitech AR1733.
If you are in the USA the CCRadio-SWP might work out cheaper.