{"id":23130,"date":"2017-01-04T08:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23130"},"modified":"2018-08-28T06:38:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T10:38:02","slug":"sony-icf-sw77-recent-dx-comparing-performance-with-the-icf-sw55-tecsun-pl-310et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/sony-icf-sw77-recent-dx-comparing-performance-with-the-icf-sw55-tecsun-pl-310et\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony ICF-SW77: recent DX & comparing performance with the ICF-SW55 & Tecsun PL-310ET"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of you might remember the extensive tests I conducted last August, comparing this great portable receiver against the model it was introduced to replace – and arguably one of the best-ever portables – the Sony ICF-2001D\/ICF-2010.\u00a0I conducted\u00a0a back-to-back series of comparison tests at the very quiet wood in Oxfordshire I use for my DX’peditions, using the same antenna for both recievers – the excellent Wellbrook ALA1530 active loop. In total, I made fourteen reception videos comparing the ICF-2001D and ICF-SW77 and posted them to my\u00a0Oxford Shortwave Log<\/a> YouTube channel. Both receivers performed very well, delivering\u00a0excellent reception\u00a0on the Tropical Band and elsewhere on the shortwave spectrum, however, the ICF-2001D proved to be the clear winner, with what proved to be far superior synchronous detection.<\/p>\n

But that wasn’t the end of the road for my\u00a0ICF-SW77. It remains a very capable receiver (one of my all-time favourite portables) and one which I continue to use regularly. However, every\u00a0now and then, it surprises me with something exceptional. Since conducting the tests against the ICF-2001D, the\u00a0SW77 has brought in my best-ever indoor reception of Radio Verdad, Guatemala on 4054.8 kHz….and when I say best-ever, I really do mean it; the audio was significantly clearer than anything I had copied previously at home with the Elad. More recently, I copied Zambia NBC Radio 1 on 5915 kHz on a DX’pedition with a far superior signal to anything I’d previously heard, with any other reciever, including the ICF-2001D and the Elad FDM DUO. Some of this of course is down to short-term conditions of propagation, however, the SW77 continues to prove why it has such a loyal following and continues to command premium prices on eBay. Text links and embedded videos to both reception videos on Oxford Shortwave Log<\/a> follow below:<\/em><\/p>\n