{"id":30591,"date":"2018-01-28T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T21:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30591"},"modified":"2018-01-28T17:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T21:22:04","slug":"purchase-an-original-sony-icf-sw7600-that-traveled-with-a-voa-correspondent-in-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/purchase-an-original-sony-icf-sw7600-that-traveled-with-a-voa-correspondent-in-the-1990s\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchase an original Sony ICF-SW7600 that traveled with a VOA correspondent in the 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who notes that one of his friends is selling a radio with a little history<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[For] anyone interested in an older SONY portable with a bit of history attached (he was VOA East Europe and Jerusalem correspondent).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for the tip Dan.\u00a0 Now, please, someone purchase this before I do! The BuyItNow price is\u00a0$59.95 plus a few dollars for shipping.<\/del>\u00a0[Either it’s a glitch on eBay or the BuyItNow price might have been removed as I published this–sorry.] I’ve never owned the original SW7600 (though I have a couple SW7600GRs).<\/p>\n

Click here to view on eBay.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who notes that one of his friends is selling a radio with a little history: [For] anyone interested in an older SONY portable with a bit of history attached (he was VOA East Europe and Jerusalem correspondent). Thanks for the tip Dan.\u00a0 Now, please, someone purchase this […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2635,331,6797,10],"class_list":["post-30591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dan-robinson","tag-ebay","tag-sony-icf-sw7600","tag-voa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7Xp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55601,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/wlodek-repairs-a-near-mint-sony-icf-sw7600\/","url_meta":{"origin":30591,"position":0},"title":"Wlodek repairs a near mint Sony ICF-SW7600","author":"Thomas","date":"February 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Wlodek, who has been quite busy repairing vintage receivers and ham radio gear during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 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