Condition:

A very nice condition FRG-100

Barely a mark on it

Whats included:

Description:

The FRG-100 a neat compact budget-priced receiver, equally suited for use in portable situations (listening expeditions) as well as at home in the shack. It was launched in Japan in August 1992, and started appearing in Europe and North America in early 1993. The set measures 238 by 93 by 243 mm and weighs around 3 Kg, but note that there is no built-in power supply for the radio. The radio comes complete with a AC mains power adapter, although it can also be operated from a car battery (it takes around 1100 mA at a comfortable listening volume).

Coverage of this receiver starts at 50 kHz and goes continuously up to 30,000 kHz. The radio can receives signals in four modes as standard AM, LSB, USB, and CW. An option exists for narrow-band FM.

At first glance, the front panel of the FRG-100 is deceptively simple. The manual tuning knob dominates the right hand side of the panel. An analogue signal strength meter and LCD frequency/mode/memory/time display are arranged along the top. Two rows of mode and select buttons are placed in the middle of the panel. Volume, squelch and memory channel controls are of the conventional rotary kind. However, by pressing certain buttons before switching the radio on it is possible to change a lot of default settings. Some of these are cosmetic (whether the clock shows 12 or 24 hr display). But other defaults which control the scanning or the sorting of the 52 channel memory are useful additions to the receiver’s functionality.