{"id":47142,"date":"2021-01-02T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T22:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=47142"},"modified":"2021-01-02T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T22:20:59","slug":"mario-spots-a-national-panasonic-cougar-2200-rf-2200-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/mario-spots-a-national-panasonic-cougar-2200-rf-2200-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario spots a National Panasonic Cougar 2200 (RF-2200) on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mario Filippi, who notes a National Panasonic Cougar RF-2200 that’s currently available on eBay<\/a>. The Cougar is an Asian version of the venerable Panasonic RF-2200<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This model appears to have an original box in great shape. The price is steep, though at roughly US $563.35 as a Buy It Now listing although it does include free economy shipping from Japan. The seller also notes, “The first stage of the antenna is removed, so it is bonded.” Not exactly sure what that means and am guessing it’s a machine translation from Japanese.<\/p>\n

Mario notes that most of the Cougar 2200s he spots on eBay are from sellers in Japan and at a recent auction one fetched $400.<\/p>\n

Click here to view on eBay.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks for the tip, Mario!<\/p>\n

Curious if any Post<\/em> readers have the Cougar 2200? I’ve never seen one in real life, but I assume the differences between it and the RF-2200<\/strong> or DR22<\/a><\/strong> is branding and power cord? Please feel free to comment if you own one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mario Filippi, who notes a National Panasonic Cougar RF-2200 that’s currently available on eBay. The Cougar is an Asian version of the venerable Panasonic RF-2200. This model appears to have an original box in great shape. The price is steep, though at roughly US $563.35 as a Buy It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,305,26,4796],"tags":[4311,9068,8304,2639,2643],"class_list":["post-47142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radios","category-vintage-radio","tag-mario-filippi-n2hun","tag-national-panasonic-cougar-rf-2200","tag-panasonic-cougar-2200","tag-panasonic-rf-2200","tag-rf-2200"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cgm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60510,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/1976-japanese-tv-commercial-for-the-national-cougar-2200\/","url_meta":{"origin":47142,"position":0},"title":"1976 Japanese TV commercial for the National Cougar 2200","author":"13dka","date":"September 1, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"1976 Japanese TV commercial for the National Cougar 2200 (aka Panasonic RF-2200 aka National Panasonic DR-22) by 13dka https:\/\/youtu.be\/FvqQ-FXbPbM?t=60 (The commercial starts at the 1:00 mark. 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