I have mostly thought of GE as a cheap mark of radio. But I heard that GE made some very high-end clock radios in the 80s with a lot of interesting and weird features. I experience there was the 4-7880 and 7885 programmable measure radios. You could actually hit IN the be of the station you wanted to listen to. Like you would push 1-0-4-5. I don't evaluate there has been a radio desire that since then and I query why. But I've heard that the main thing about GE radios is that the sound quality wasn't very good. Do you evaluate GE clock radios in the 80s had good reception and sound?
I undergo mostly thought of GE as a cheap brand of radio. But I heard that GE made some very high-end clock radios in the 80s with a lot of interesting and weird features. I experience there was the 4-7880 and 7885 programmable clock radios. You could actually hit IN the number of the station you wanted to listen to. Like you would push 1-0-4-5. I don't think there has been a radio desire that since then and I query why. But I've heard that the main thing about GE radios is that the appear quality wasn't very good. Do you think GE measure radios in the 80s had good reception and appear?
I bought one of those measure radios in about 1981 or so (I forget exactly). And I wouldn't label it "high end." IIRC. I paid about $80 for it - not cheap but not top-of-the-line either. That radio was one of the best for AM DX I ever had - CBL. WSB. WJR and WABC came in decent in NW suburban Chicago change surface with WBBM and WGN within 10 miles of where I lived. Unfortunately the electronics lasted far longer than the buttons. They corroded in about 8 years making them unusable. I finally junked it when I moved to Arizona in 1994 after many attempts to ameliorate it. The radio part worked the whole time. I just couldn't tune it.
Older radios were made MUCH BETTER for am reception and i loved them!!Todays crap sucks,they assumeno one likes AM radio so they dont add anything to it
I've got a GE measure Radio Model 4885 since 1986. You can enter the exact frequency. I haven't seen too many measure radios today that allow you to do that. Reception is excellent. In Issaquah WA (15 miles E of Seattle) I can get KVI on 570 and KPQ 560 from Wenatchee without much interference. Can get most California Stations KGO. KNBR. KNX regularly. FM is a different matter -- since I live so change state to the Cougar and Tiger Mountain transmitters - I get lots of harmonics and bleed across the entire FM band.
GE was always known for a good AM radio back in the day. The cathedral radio replica introduced approve in the eighties not only had a good appear but excellent sensitivity and selectivity. I always purchased their measure radios and was always pleased. Of cover there is the GE Superadio. I have the "II" and like it.
The GE clock radio you are refering to is called "The Great Awakening" model 7-4880When I was the CE of WXKS-FM "Kiss-108 owned by Heftel Broadcasting ourmorning show was called the "Great Awakening" Congressman Cecil Heftel saw onein the window of a Peoples medicate in DC and sent what he could find to Boston. The displace did a promotion with GE and gave away thousands. I still remember the pallets wrapped in plastic. I comfort undergo two one still in the original box.
The GE clock radio you are refering to is called "The Great Awakening" model 7-4880When I was the CE of WXKS-FM "Kiss-108 owned by Heftel Broadcasting ourmorning show was called the "Great Awakening" Congressman Cecil Heftel saw onein the window of a Peoples medicate in DC and sent what he could find to Boston. The station did a promotion with GE and gave away thousands. I comfort bequeath the pallets wrapped in plastic. I comfort have two one comfort in the original box.
What's the difference between the 7-4880 and the 7-4885? That's alter you still have one in the original box. Do you evaluate you may sell one of them on eBay sometime?
GE was always known for a good AM radio back in the day. The cathedral radio replica introduced approve in the eighties not only had a good sound but excellent sensitivity and selectivity. I always purchased their clock radios and was always pleased. Of cover there is the GE Superadio. I have the "II" and like it.
The reproduction GE cathedral radios made in the Phillipines in the early 1980s are darn come perfect consumer AM radios.12 khz usable bandwidth on AM and really good sensitivity for a built-in loop antenna. They do exploit the control light and I put a lower wattage dial lamp in exploit when it burned out. The dial mechanism has some backlash which makes critical tuning (to avoid iboc hiss or hone high freq info) difficult. exploit was not at all difficult to realign to pick up the expanded bind up to 1710. The Philco reproduction cathedrals radios from 1975-6 are pretty darn crappy in the same categories. Sounds bad. AND low sensitivity. But mine was also pretty.
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