{"id":42677,"date":"2020-04-04T12:56:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42677"},"modified":"2020-04-04T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:56:29","slug":"a-trusted-companion-the-panasonic-rf-2200-never-lets-me-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-trusted-companion-the-panasonic-rf-2200-never-lets-me-down\/","title":{"rendered":"A trusted companion: The Panasonic RF-2200 never lets me down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the great things about sheltering at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, is I have time to complete some projects that would have otherwise waited until much later this year.<\/p>\n

Lately, I’ve been making a serious effort to have our firewood cut, split and stacked so that it’ll have time to cure and dry before winter.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a load of wood in my truck to process today so decided to take the Panasonic RF-2200<\/strong> outside and do a little AM BC listening to make the splitting session pass a little faster.<\/p>\n

The Panny ‘2200 is ideally suited for this task: it has robust sound and is one of the best AM DX portables ever made. I knew it would easily lock on to WTZQ<\/a> 1600 kHz (some 25 miles away).<\/p>\n

But as I sat the ‘2200 on the tailgate of my truck, I noticed that the power switch was already on!<\/p>\n

My heart sank. The last time I had the RF-2200 out was well over<\/em> a week ago and I was certain I had no D cells charged and ready to replace these.<\/p>\n

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But then I turned up the volume and there was static. I tuned to WTZQ and it sounded like it was one mile down the road. I turned up the volume a bit more when I heard Homeward Bound<\/em> by Simon & Garfunkel.<\/p>\n

Turns out, there was a lot of battery life left. The Panny ‘2200 never let’s me down.<\/p>\n

The Panasonic RF-2200 is a Holy Grail Radio. Plain and simple.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you have an RF-2200?\u00a0 Please comment!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lately, I’ve been making a serious effort to have our firewood cut, split and stacked so that it’ll have time to cure and dry […]<\/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":[373,3,26,4796],"tags":[6638,2642,2639,2643,3802],"class_list":["post-42677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-news","category-radios","category-vintage-radio","tag-holy-grail-radios","tag-panasonic","tag-panasonic-rf-2200","tag-rf-2200","tag-wtzq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b6l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13481,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-panasonic-rf-2200-an-early-birthday-gift\/","url_meta":{"origin":42677,"position":0},"title":"The Panasonic RF-2200: an early birthday gift","author":"Thomas","date":"June 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This week, I purchased a radio that I have lusted after for years: the Panasonic RF-2200. 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