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The Grundig G3 sported a Dual Conversion PLL Digital tuner with smooth tuning and no discernible muting between frequency steps.<\/p><\/div>\n

Like some others of my age (roughly) who have posted here, I vastly prefer radios that do NOT mute between tuning steps . . . that provide smooth, continuous tuning.<\/p>\n

So, does anyone know of any true, new, currently in production, radios with an analog receiver? Could be AM, FM, and\/or shortwave?<\/p>\n

And, if there are any, obviously I am interested in the ones that you think work well.<\/p>\n

Cheers, Jock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like some others of my age (roughly) who have posted here, I vastly prefer radios that do NOT mute between tuning steps . . . that provide smooth, continuous tuning. So, does anyone know of any true, new, currently in production, radios with an analog receiver? Could be AM, FM, and\/or shortwave? And, if there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"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":[3,26],"tags":[680,9323],"class_list":["post-60206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","tag-analog-radio","tag-jock-elliott-kb2gom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fF4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57144,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/sometimes-simple-works-really-well-exploring-the-ccrane-ep-pro\/","url_meta":{"origin":60206,"position":0},"title":"Sometimes simple works . . . really well! 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