{"id":21528,"date":"2016-09-25T01:46:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T05:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21528"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T01:35:46","slug":"rare-hitachi-kw-wsi-worldspace-receiver-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/rare-hitachi-kw-wsi-worldspace-receiver-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Hitachi KW-WSI WorldSpace Receiver on Ebay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first and only <strong>&#8220;WorldSpace&#8221; satellite receiver<\/strong> I&#8217;ve seen on Ebay, currently offered at a $175 Buy-It-Now price from a seller in Australia:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/HITACHI-KW-WSI-DIGITAL-RECEIVER-WS-FM-MW-SW1-SW2-\/282192383263\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/HITACHI-KW-WSI-DIGITAL-RECEIVER-WS-FM-MW-SW1-SW2-\/282192383263<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The radio is listed as in excellent condition with the original box and literature. Besides the long-gone WorldSpace satellite frequencies, the radio covers medium wave, FM, and most of the shortwave range. A brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farnell.com\/datasheets\/15419.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF data sheet<\/a> for the radio gives a description of features and operations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/HITACHI-KW-WSI.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21530 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/HITACHI-KW-WSI-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"hitachi-kw-wsi\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/HITACHI-KW-WSI-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/HITACHI-KW-WSI.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong> describes this radio&#8217;s satellite service\u00a0as <em><b>1worldspace<\/b>, formerly known as &#8216;WorldSpace&#8217;, is a defunct\u00a0<a title=\"Satellite radio\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satellite_radio\">satellite radio<\/a>\u00a0network that in its heyday provided service to over 170,000 subscribers in\u00a0<a title=\"East Africa\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Africa\">eastern<\/a>\u00a0and southern Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia with 96% coming from\u00a0<a title=\"India\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\">India<\/a>. It was profitable in India, with 450,000 subscribers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the Hitachi KW-WSI is a reasonable performer for shortwave listening? Does anyone know any technical details of this receiver?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Guy Atkins is a Sr. Graphic Designer for T-Mobile and lives near Seattle, Washington. \u00a0He&#8217;s a regular contributor to the SWLing Post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first and only &#8220;WorldSpace&#8221; satellite receiver I&#8217;ve seen on Ebay, currently offered at a $175 Buy-It-Now price from a seller in Australia: http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/HITACHI-KW-WSI-DIGITAL-RECEIVER-WS-FM-MW-SW1-SW2-\/282192383263 The radio is listed as in excellent condition with the original box and literature. Besides the long-gone WorldSpace satellite frequencies, the radio covers medium wave, FM, and most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[373,3781,433,26,43,4796],"tags":[5496,331,3446,4309,4516,5495,5494],"class_list":["post-21528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-fm","category-mediumwave","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-collectable","tag-ebay","tag-guy-atkins","tag-satellite-radio","tag-vintage","tag-world-space","tag-worldspace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Be","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21528","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}