{"id":40538,"date":"2019-11-11T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40538"},"modified":"2019-11-12T19:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T23:17:16","slug":"the-sony-icf-7600a-at-my-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-sony-icf-7600a-at-my-happy-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sony ICF-7600A at my “happy place”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday afternoon, the family and I spent some time at my happy place: Mount Mitchell State Park<\/a>. This might be our last visit there until spring of 2020 since the Blue Ridge Parkway is often closed during the winter.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was unseasonably warm at 48F (9C)–a shot of warm weather before an Arctic front moves in tonight dropping temps to about 10F (-12C) and, likely, dropping 1-3″ of snow as well.<\/p>\n

The afternoon at Mount Mitchell gave me a little time to play radio, of course, and put my recently acquired Sony ICF-7600A<\/strong> on the air.<\/p>\n

How did I acquire the Sony ICF-7600A? Via the generosity of SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Ed Earps.<\/p>\n

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Ed reached out to me after I made the following comment in a recent post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The ICF-7600A is a cool analog portable and one I\u2019ve thought about acquiring at some point.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ed contacted me immediately:<\/p>\n

“Thomas, if you would still like to acquire a ICF-7600A, I have one I would give you. This would be in appreciation of all the work you do in writing the SWLing Post blog.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few days later, the ICF-7600A with original box and accessories arrived. Wow!<\/p>\n

Thank you so much, Ed!<\/em> Over the years, members of the SWLing Post<\/em> community have been so kind and so generous, it makes a guy feel humbled and appreciated. Thank you!<\/p>\n

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The ICF-7600A fits perfectly in my Red Oxx Hound<\/a> pack.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m loving the ICF-7600A.<\/p>\n

There’s something so authentic about tuning a good analog portable. It’s hard for me to describe, but I can certainly say it always takes me back to my radio roots.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The ICF-7600A has a low noise floor and seems to be incredibly sensitive. I easily snagged several stations on 31 meters, but ended up enjoying music via All India Radio<\/em> while brewing a little coffee with my alcohol stove (handmade by my buddy, Greg–thanks, Greg!<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Hey, when you’re a coffee snob, you brew where you are!<\/p>\n

But I digress…<\/p>\n

I’m especially impressed with the ICF-7600A’s mediumwave performance. I logged a number of benchmark daytime and greyline stations yesterday. I haven’t opened the ‘7600A, but I imagine it has a decent ferrite bar inside based on its overall performance on the AM broadcast band and its nulling capabilities.<\/p>\n

Next time, I’ll bring the AN200<\/a> mag loop and couple it with the ‘7600A. I’m pretty sure that’ll make for a winning combo.<\/p>\n

All-in-all, I couldn’t have asked for a better day: the weather was wonderful, the coffee freshly-brewed, and the gifted ICF-7600A was the perfect radio companion as our family soaked in the scenery after a hike to the summit.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t ask for a better happy place!<\/p>\n

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