11/10/2023 0 Comments Panasonic rf 800u amazon![]() At the back is a 3-position slide switch which selects the band. Only two controls protrude through the case on the front - a tuning dial and a switched volume control which also powers the radio on. Power output is 800 mw, more than adequate for room-filling volume. The front-facing speaker is 8 cm (3.15 in) in size. There is no manual, though with such a simple radio as this you surely don't need one. There are no other accessories besides the case and carrying strap. Also supplied is a vinyl carrying strap which can be affixed to the top of the radio. ![]() You can supply your own if you have a 3.6 VDC wall wart 300 ma, positive center pin. It does not come with an AC-mains power source. Panasonic claims upwards of 280 hours in AM mode. The radio takes two "D" cell batteries and they will last nearly forever, especially if the radio is used with earphones. The whip is used for FM and shortwave reception. The external antenna is a single telescoping whip at 32 inches long. It reminds you of the first transistor radios of the 1950s and 1960s which all came with leather cases allowing their controls to be accessed through cutouts in the cases. Panasonic has included a nice faux leather case which fits snugly to the radio. The radio is bare bones, black and silver, and all plastic. The single shortwave band covers 4.75 - 18 MHz. It also has a retro "Log" scale, 0-10, another nice touch. The face has a sort of a magnifier bar over it to enlarge the frequency readout, a nice touch. I was able to get to 1660 KHz on my unit. The large, side-to-side slide rule dial extending across the top of the radio only tunes 530 - 1605 KHz on the mediumwave band, so North American buyers beware. The IC has all the building blocks required for a desirable AM/FM receiver. The CD2003GP is an excellent single chip AM/FM radio requiring very few external components. The radio is an analog design, and uses a monolithic CD2003GP IC chip for virtually all superhet stages, similar to the earlier Sony radios like the SRF-59 and ICF-S10MK2. I've seen references to it as early as 2011. I'm not sure when this radio was introduced. RF-562DD What's in the box - showing radio in leather case Secondly, you don't want the general public knowing what's inside your shipment. I know of one gentleman who ordered it and it was shipped in this box. The radio itself is packaged in a bare-bones shirt-cardboard type box as shown in the picture below. If you order one, be sure to have them repackage it in a second box. The radio seems to be manufactured for a foreign audience, that is, foreign to the western hemisphere. It could possibly be engineering changes. I can find no obvious differences between it and the RF-562D. The Panasonic RF-562DD claims to be the "new" RF-562D. This a 3-band radio - MW, FM, and shortwave. Additionally, the RF-562DD has that sharp retro look from the early 1960s. One of my favorite older radios I no longer have was the Panasonic RF-565, similar in size. Partly based on Jay Allen's positive review on his Radio Jay Allen web site, and also because it's analog and not DSP-based, I ordered this radio.
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