{"id":13481,"date":"2015-06-06T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13481"},"modified":"2015-06-06T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T15:13:23","slug":"the-panasonic-rf-2200-an-early-birthday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-panasonic-rf-2200-an-early-birthday-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Panasonic RF-2200: an early birthday gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13483\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-1.jpg\" alt=\"Panasonic-RF-2200-1\" width=\"1025\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-1.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-1-1024x632.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, I purchased a radio that I have lusted after for years: the Panasonic RF-2200.<\/p>\n<p>I justified this<a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=9&amp;pub=5574879351&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5337459257&amp;customid=&amp;icep_uq=Panasonic+RF-2200&amp;icep_sellerId=&amp;icep_ex_kw=&amp;icep_sortBy=12&amp;icep_catId=&amp;icep_minPrice=&amp;icep_maxPrice=&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_blank\"> eBay purchase<\/a> because June is my birthday month and&#8230;well&#8230;do I need anymore justification!?! \u00a0Just look at this beautiful analog dial:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13482\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-2.jpg\" alt=\"Panasonic-RF-2200-2\" width=\"1025\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-2.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-2-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-2-1024x627.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In truth, I&#8217;ve been wanting a benchmark portable medium wave receiver for ages, and I believe there are few better than the venerable RF-2200.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13484\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-3.jpg\" alt=\"Panasonic-RF-2200-3\" width=\"1025\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-3.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-3-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Panasonic-RF-2200-3-1024x735.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked the RF-2200 this morning and I&#8217;ve only had it on the air a few minutes. It effortlessly picked up my local benchmark medium wave and FM stations. The audio fidelity is brilliant and the &#8216;2200 appears to have a very low noise floor. I haven&#8217;t had a moment to truly cruise the shortwave bands, but I plan to over the course of this week and shall report back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I purchased a radio that I have lusted after for years: the Panasonic RF-2200. I justified this eBay purchase because June is my birthday month and&#8230;well&#8230;do I need anymore justification!?! \u00a0Just look at this beautiful analog dial: In truth, I&#8217;ve been wanting a benchmark portable medium wave receiver for ages, and I believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[433,3,26,43],"tags":[2642,2639,681],"class_list":["post-13481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-panasonic","tag-panasonic-rf-2200","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3vr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}