{"id":18781,"date":"2016-05-11T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18781"},"modified":"2016-05-11T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:48:33","slug":"ebay-dan-notes-astronomical-price-sought-for-panasonic-rf-9000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/ebay-dan-notes-astronomical-price-sought-for-panasonic-rf-9000\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay: Dan notes astronomical price sought for Panasonic RF-9000"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fullscreen<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:<\/p>\n

This is the highest price ever sought by an\u00a0RF-9000 seller.<\/a> \u00a0[The last RF-9000]\u00a0went for around $9,000-10,000.<\/em><\/p>\n

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[…]The RF-9000, as many veterans of SWL know,\u00a0was produced by Panasonic as a kind of showpiece.<\/em><\/p>\n

From information available, only some hundreds\u00a0were ever made.\u00a0 The price new, as detailed in\u00a0the Osterman book<\/a>, was about $3800.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Note<\/a>

Note Dan’s RF-9000 at the far end of the SWL Fest’s Listening Lounge table.<\/p><\/div>\n

Those who attended this year’s SWL Fest<\/a> got\u00a0a rare opportunity to lay hands on this technology\u00a0showpiece (at least the technology as it was back\u00a0when it was being made between 1982 and 1985).<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to view on eBay.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

And, Dan, thanks for lugging your RF-9000 to the SWL Fest! \u00a0It was indeed a treat to\u00a0operate the RF-9000. I must say that the RF-9000’s audio fidelity is outstanding–<\/em>beautifully balanced! What an amazing radio.<\/p>\n

Still–this eBay seller is asking too much at $20,000 US (and $300 shipping). This might well be a collector that has no intention of letting the RF-9000 go. I could understand that! Thanks again, Dan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: This is the highest price ever sought by an\u00a0RF-9000 seller. \u00a0[The last RF-9000]\u00a0went for around $9,000-10,000. […]The RF-9000, as many veterans of SWL know,\u00a0was produced by Panasonic as a kind of showpiece. From information available, only some hundreds\u00a0were ever made.\u00a0 The price new, as detailed […]<\/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":[3,26,43],"tags":[2635,331,2642,5056],"class_list":["post-18781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-robinson","tag-ebay","tag-panasonic","tag-panasonic-rf-9000"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4SV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47187,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/dans-thoughts-on-a-panasonic-rf-9000-up-for-auction\/","url_meta":{"origin":18781,"position":0},"title":"Dan’s thoughts on a Panasonic RF-9000 up for auction","author":"Thomas","date":"January 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: Appearing on the Japanese Buyee website is this RF-9000, which was the \"King of Radios\" of the heavy multiband \"portable\" era. In recent years, RF-9000s in excellent to LNIB condition have sold for $10,000 or more. 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I did a YouYube video demonstrating my 'new' Panasonic RF-9000 SW receiver. I already submitted a review to the blog which you posted (thank you). 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