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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Grundig
Color: Black
EAN: 0750254803154
Item Dimensions: 7245754001465
Label: Eton
Manufacturer: Eton
Model: Satallit 750
MPN: Satallit 750
Publisher: Eton
Studio: Eton
Features:- AM, FM, Aircraft Band (118v-137 MHz) and Shortwave (1711-30000 KHz)
- Set 9/10 KHz AM tuning; set FM tuning range
- Single Side Band (SSB)
- 360-degree rotate AM antenna
- Auto/Manual/Direct frequency key-in and station memory tuning
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Product Description:
The Eton Grundig Satellite 750 AM/FM/LW shortwave radio offers you a classic design with advanced DSP technology and a 360-degree rotating AM antenna to enhance the radio's tuning sensitivity. You can listen to AM, FM, SW, LW, SSB, and aircraft band frequencies, and program in up to 100 of your favorites for each band. You can also connect your MP3 player for even more listening choices.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Overall this is a wonderful, fun to use world band radio. Reception is excellent. I only have two minor complaints: ONE - the owner's handbook is so simplistic that is of almost no use at all to a novice. A radio this complex should have a much more comprehensive and helpful guide included for beginners to the hobby of world band listening. TWO - the buttons on the face of the unit are nicely made and functional, but letters on the buttons are tiny and hard to read in lower lighting conditions. (These are the letters indicating FM, SW, MW, etc. The letters are much smaller than the letters in this note - only about 1/16" high. The buttons themselves are about 3/8" square so there is plenty of room to place larger letters.) With publications such as Passport to World Band Radio you can glean the information you need to get started and there are plenty of sources on the Internet - so that will make up for the owner's manual. Otherwise, I recommend this radio to anyone who is really getting into this fascinating hobby. You could start out with a cheap little radio, but you may get discouraged quickly and quit the hobby. My advice is to buy the best radio you can afford to start with. (Buy Passport to World Band Radio, read the reviews of the available radios first.)You surely won't be disappointed with this one.
Rating: -
Having played around with a variety of other Shortwave radios, I was really on the fence about what to buy. I didn't want to spend a lot of money, but I wanted the features of a high-end radio. Shopping around, I realized that this wasn't a reasonable expectation. However, the Grundig 750 seemed to be the best bang for the buck so I ordered it having never touched this particular model.
First and foremost, I was able to get up and running with little fuss. Of course, it took some time to explore the radio and use it to its full potential. Nevertheless, the fantastic design of this radio offered ease of use out of the box, with the more advanced features being utilized by trial and error. Easy to learn, hard to master. A good middle ground.
The options on the radio are the shining points. AM/FM/LW/SW/Air + SSB; I was not able to find another radio that had all of these bands together for the price of $299. LW is mostly useless to have in the US however, as voice communications are limited to ITU region 1 which does not include the United States. So you get either beacons and morse code, or bits of spurious emissions from licensed AM stations. Air band is nice to have for me, especially since I'm only 2 miles from Denver International Airport (Air band is similar to FM just at higher frequencies). In any case, all of the commercial or transmission for public consumption signals are reachable with this radio, and then some.
I appreciate the radio having connections for both Hi-Z and coax antennas. The AM antenna is a rotatable loop, and of course the built in telescoping antenna works very well for what it is, picking up Cuba, Europe, and Asia here in Colorado. Not bad for a built in antenna! Of course, I didn't stay with that and now have a 300 foot longwire for some serious DXing.
Other great features include line in, line out, earphone jack, bass/treble, and rf gain, squelch, and SSB BFO controls.
I have come to realize however that this radio is not perfect, and there really is no perfect shortwave radio.
The first issue I noticed is that the radio is very light for its size. The case seems to be made of cheap plastic and I'm sure there is a minimal of components on the inside, but that's partially due to miniturization as well. However, this radio could have all of these features and controls in a smaller package. The size of the housing is obviously an attempt to convey complexity, when in fact the internal components are quite simple and put into a larger case to give this radio a facade that says, "I'm big and expensive" when it really isn't. I didn't care for this.
I do have to fault the SSB tuning as well. SSB works, no doubt and is fully usable. Many of these other reviewers remark that the SSB is horrible or worthless. I disagree. But the real problem is that SSB is too sensitive. Going to a sideband and then tuning the BFO reveals that it is way too sensitive, resulting in an unnecessary amount of time to tune in to a signal. There should be a reduction drive or anything that could allow for more coarse tuning. The difference between getting a clear voice from a ham operator or getting out of tune gibberish can be a FRACTION of a millimeter on the tuning knob. Sometimes an out of tune SSB signal can be corrected by just touching the knob without intention to turn it. This is unreasonable.
Another fault is the complexity of using the storage function. I have played with it a bit and come to find that it's cumbersome enough to not even use it whether storing or recalling stations. I'd rather go by memory or use good old fashioned pen and paper to keep track of interesting stations.
The higher frequencies (on the SW band only) seem to lose quite a bit of gain regardless of which antenna I use. So, I tuned to 27.185mhz and experimented with my CB radio on channel 19. Despite the apparent loss in gain, the CB transmissions were picked up very loud and clear. It appeared to me however that the lower frequencies are going to have much better propagation regardless of time of day; and I was right. It's much easier for me to get the WWV at 5000khz than it was at 10000khz... even in the middle of the day? Hmm. WWV at 15000khz doesn't even come in at all, ever. But, all of the action on SW is mostly between 5-7mhz so no big deal. There could also be other factors in play that have nothing to do with the radio. I don't know yet and am still experimenting.
I hate to say as well, that there are some quality control issues. The tuning knob works great but seems off-centered and light. Turning the tuning knob reveals that it doesn't twist in a perfect circle, rather has the wobble of an improperly balanced tire. This doesn't affect the function of the radio, but it does make it feel and look cheap.
Furthermore, on my model there is a piece of debris inside the plastic cover ... Read More
Rating: -
Having decided, at a ripe old age, to re-enter my childhood hobby of SWLing, and not willing to put out a lot of money in case I lost interest, I bought the Satellit 750 because of its appearance and the positive reviews here. I'm not at all disappointed. Having used the fabled Collins R-390 receiver during my '60s military days, I was used to a high performing receiver. This, of course, is no R-390 but for the price, its a reasonable substitute. I get good reception in my steel and glass apartment building using the built-in whip antenna. I have only a few minor complaints. Since I mostly listen to CW, I'm a big user of the BFO, but on the 750, the BFO is too close to the carrying handle on the right side of the unit which makes it extremely uncomfortable, if not difficult, to turn the BFO. It would be nice if the carrying handles could be easily removed. I would also have preferred the volume knob to be on the right, but with the bass and treble controls, I understand that things would have gotten crowded. Also, the operating manual is lousy. It gives you the basics -- at least most of the basics -- but could have been written a lot better. All in all, I love my 750 and I feel the old stirrings when the DX comes rolling in, knowing I have a good receiver to capture it.
Rating:  -
I've been playing with my new Grundig Satellit 750 for several weeks and believe that I am now ready to give it an honest review after making performance comparisons with my other receivers, namely, the Panason RF-2200, the Sony ICF-6500W, the Sony ICF-2001D, and the GE Superadio III.
Build Quality:
I removed the back of the Grundig 750 and was amazed to find a very well layed out design. Looking from the rear, the speaker, with its huge magnet, was sitting there all alone with plenty of room for reverb. For a portable radio of this size, an impressive looking audio amp was the only component sharing this compartment. To the left of the speaker was a large printed wire board (PWB) that was mounted to what appeared to be a box in a box (with the radio chassis being the main box and the inside box framing everything on the front panel except the speaker). The PWB had its wire side facing to the rear of the radio and was essentially the cover of the box I mentioned, so I was not able to observe the number of components inside the radio or on the PWB. This main PWB had two large metal shields soldered to the wire side of the PWB, obviously to eliminate spurs. I removed about 8 screws from this main PWB in an attempt to remove it to view the rest of this beauty but decided not to go any further because there were numerous hard mounted plugs around the edges of the board and I did not want to risk breaking anything. So I stopped the disassembly process. I'll just say this. It was obvious from the design that this is a modern, clean, computer generated design.
The only build quality cons worth mentioning are: 1) this radio direly needs a foot to prop up the front (I used a 15 inch triangular architectural-ruler which worked perfectly); 2) the bottom section of the whip antenna was too tight ( I expect that many Grundig 750's, like the Panasonic RF-2200, will end up with a broken whip antenna.); 3) the ferrite MW antenna must use spring contacts that seem to lose contact at times - MW reception goes blank at times and a slight movement of the rotatable antenna corrects it - not a big issue, it only happened once during the week of testing.
Performance in a nutshell: For Shortwave, I would say that with the exception of the lack of SYNC mode, this Grundig 750's selectivity, sensitivity, and SSB usefulness are as good or better than the Sony ICF-2001D (2010). Tuning the SSB Ham bands was easy, and once tuned, it remained rock steady, absolutely no drift was observed. MW performance was the same as the Sony ICF-2001 except at frequencies above 900MHZ the Grundig far outperformed the Sony. FM performance was superior to the Sony plus the Grundig provides FM Stereo when using an external amplifier or a stereo headset.
Cons:
1) I find the memory usage of this radio to be too complex with the exception of using it in conjunction with the ATS mode which works very well. This is one area where the Sony ICF-2010 beats the Grundig. Sony's simple direct memory buttons are very handy and useful when compared to the memory sequence required by this Grundig (again, except ATS). By the time you finish sequencing this memory system you may as well just punch in the frequency directly. Speaking of memory usage, the radio provides a push-button switch labeled VM/VF. Via the manual I know that this switch is used to change the PAGE mode, but what does VM/VF mean?
2)The manual is severely lacking. It does not give proper information of the workings of the up/down switch and its relationship to the FAST/SLOW switch. Also, the manual fails to point out many of the features of this radio including its SCAN capabilities versus bands. (For those who may not know, this radio is capable of scanning the bands identified as Broadcast Bands by holding either the up or down switch for more than a couple of seconds. While Scanning, it will stop on strong stations for 5 seconds and can be stopped by hitting the up/down button again. Also while scanning, it will automatically skip the non-broadcast bands - I like that.).
Pros:
1)Very pleasing audio. After listening to this radio for hours while working at my desktop computer, I can say without hesitation that it has the most pleasing audio of any of my portable radios. I would call the audio quality extremely pleasing for personal listening. I agree that the GE Superadio and the Panasonic RF-2200 have great audio, but they are both a little boomy compared to this Grundig.
2)Except for the lack of a front foot to prop up the front, the design layout and ease of use could not be better. The feel and usability of the main frequency dial is superb.
3)The rotatable MW ferrite antenna works great except for the scratchy contacts that I hope Grundig corrects, but I would not put off buying the 750 for this reason.
4)Like most Grundig's before ... Read More
Rating: -
Gruding 750
I received my setup March 11 I was able to capitalize on the 220 deal shipped that Amazon is currently having.
I really have to say that when I put this radio side by side together with the Degen 1103 the DE1103 is overall slightly better in regards to AM FM ANS SW freq generation. Slight buzzing on some SW stations 750. I then connected my DE 31 to the extended whip and immediately notice a reduction in the buzzing sound. I was listening to SW 9640 at 31 meters Barcelona playing an Italian team in soccer very good signal today around 2:30pm. Still Degen outperforms. What I noticed is that Depending on what is connected other radio cell phones other external devices, do have a substantial effect on receiver quality.
I have yet to use the aircraft freq this will count towards my final rating on eham.net.
So far I am pleased with the radio for the 200 range. The one great part of this radio is the military look let's face it. It got the Look. I will post some more results as I spend more time. I am hoping to at least Equal the Performance of my Degen 1103. My primary listening is SW. Today I was also listening to a scientific discussion on why Whales beach themselves. Interesting.
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