{"id":11115,"date":"2014-10-18T08:41:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2014-10-18T08:41:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:41:52","slug":"grundig-g8-traveller-ii-price-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/grundig-g8-traveller-ii-price-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Grundig G8 Traveller II price drops"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Grundig-G8-Traveller-II\"Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Mike (K8RAT), for informing me that the Grundig G8 Traveller II<\/strong> is now available for a close-out price of $34.98 at Universal Radio<\/a> and $33.99 at Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m sure this low\u00a0price is to make space for the new Eton Traveller III<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I owned a the G8 Traveller II for a few years and eventually gave it to a friend. It’s a simple radio, but quite an effective receiver. I love the international time dial (and glad they kept it on the Traveller III<\/a>)–it came in handy when crossing time zones.<\/p>\n

Negatives? Well there is no keypad for direct entry, very few controls and the receiver mutes between frequencies. Still, the audio is great and it gets high marks from me for MW\/SW and FM reception.<\/p>\n

For $35, it’s an excellent bargain for a handy, \u00fcber-portable, travel radio. I’m tempted to buy another…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Mike (K8RAT), for informing me that the Grundig G8 Traveller II is now available for a close-out price of $34.98 at Universal Radio and $33.99 at Amazon.com. I’m sure this low\u00a0price is to make space for the new Eton Traveller III. I owned a the G8 Traveller II for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43,1409],"tags":[483,23,276,3323],"class_list":["post-11115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-specials","tag-g8","tag-grundig","tag-grundig-g8","tag-grundig-g8-traveller-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Th","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42969,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/youve-been-warned-emilio-just-brought-a-grundig-frankenradio-to-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":11115,"position":0},"title":"You’ve Been Warned: Emilio just brought a Grundig Frankenradio to life–!","author":"Thomas","date":"April 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor (and certified mad scientist), Emilio Ruiz, who writes: Recently I was given a broken Grundig G8 Traveler II.\u00a0 This radio had an accident--the case, speaker, tuning knob, and volume controls were all broken or damaged. 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