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Sony ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM/FM Radio, Silver |  | Brand: Sony
List Price: $12.99
Buy New: $7.39
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Seller: lavi store
Rating:  314 reviews
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Battery: 2 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 2.9 x 1.2 x 4.8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: ICF-S10
Model: ICF-S10
UPC: 027242598447
EAN: 0027242598447
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Sony's ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM/FM Radio will fit easily into your shirt or jacket pocket for convenience and easy portability.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 314
 Best 10 bucks I've spent in years! April 6, 2005
J. Ray (West Texas)
391 out of 395 found this review helpful
BUY THREE!
I've never written an online review before but his radio is great and is worth the trouble.
I'm a Ham Operator and I restore tube radios for a hobby so I've spent a few hours listening to DX, I know crap, I know hype, and I know a miracle when I trip over one. I started looking around for a pocket radio to keep in my truck because sometimes I would be caught working away from the shop for hours without any news or music. If you're a radio nut you can guess what happened next. A month later, probably twenty hours online and more than a hundred bucks worth of pocket radios and I wasn't happy. I'd had fun and now had some radios handy around the house for "adequate" use (radios & led flashlights, can't have enough!). Even though I had run across this radio online and in reviews I didn't put it on my list of probables, It was just a $10.00 radio and I was limiting myself to vintage radios with discrete transistor designs or new IC designs over $30 or $40 dollars. After all I wanted a "good radio". I was pretty much interested in an analog radio because in this price range digital sets are usually noisey, battery hogs, and plauged by "birdies". Finally, I ordered one of these because "what the heck" ten bucks, if it sucks I'll give it away. When it showed up I plopped in a set of AA's tuned the dial and heard lots of stations, good sign. Any radio that has analog tuning with a dial thats two inches across is a challenge, but thats ok. Low and behold theres KGNC from over 120 miles away and it's 1500hrs(3pm). What the hay! Listen up buyers, This radio is TEN BUCKS and it can hear stations others can't. No one has learned how to put sensitivity, selectivity, and audio into one box this size but this radio is a miracle! Don't get me wrong this is not a Sony 2010 or a GE SRIII, but it's small enough and cheap enough to have one in every room of the house and in each car. And the speaker is good enough that you don't have to use phones. It has a telescoping antenna for FM. Some radios that cost 6X as much don't have a tele. ant., they use the headphone cables. That means even if your using the speaker you have to have the headphones plugged in or the FM stinks. Since this is still a new toy it hasn't yet made it to the glove box in the truck, I'm still playing with it. I live in the Panhadle of Texas and last night I listened to a talk show in Nebraska before bed; woke up and touched the dial and there was a great morning show in San Antonio. If this radio was $70.00 I'd give it 3 or 3.5 stars, for TEN to FOURTEEN dollars it is a true bargain! Some others may review this radio and subtract points because of selectivity or something, remember this radio cost less than a good burger and fries! I've spent thousands of dollars on radios; Collins,Icom,Yaesu,Sony, and others. I have better radios than this one but I've never had anything for >$15.00 that was this good.
Buy two or three, I did.
Jeff
A little marvel ! November 29, 2006
analogAMforever (Wash., D.C. Metro)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
I received three of these radios from J&R Music today for $30, including shipping (just ordered two more). The radios were very well protected and were received undamaged through UPS. I own some larger and more expensive digital PLL-tuned radios, but this radio is truly unbelievable - too bad, I wasted time and money on the other radios. This is an analog-tuned radio, which evidentually, has a tuned loop input and may contain the same receiver chip and ferrite-bar, as the much more expensive Sony PLL radios. There is an excellent review of this radio on RadioIntel and look under the "reviews" tab; this radio has almost the same AM DXing capabilities, as a $700 receiver ! The radio is simply handsome and about the size of a 3x5 card and 1 1/4" inches deep, so it definately has some bulk (this is not the typical 1960's-style transistor radio, that I grew up with). This radio has the feel of a quality piece of electronics for only $10 ! The fit-and-finish is very good, the tuner is very tight, the battery compartment cover and antenna fit tightly, handling the radio does not affect reception, and the 2 1/4" speaker much better, than one would expect. I compared its AM nighttime reception to my more expensive digital PLL radios and it could pick up exactly the same stations (West to WHO 1040 Des Moines, South to 870 WWL New Orleans, and North to Canada, all from Maryland), but without the typical static of cheap boom-boxes, or the typical PLL synthesizer noise. This radio also has an LED tuning indicator, so you will know when the station is right on; also, I have not noticed the typical drifting one gets with analog-tuned radios. I hope Sony doesn't make the mistake of discontinuing this excellent radio.
A great use of $10 June 26, 2006
S. M. Klauber (New Zealand)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Reminds me of the transistor radio I brought into school while in fifth grade (1969- the Miracle Mets!), except much better reception. I bought it to have a small radio in my computer room, and it fits the bill. Sure, I'd like digital tuning, but for $[...] buy it, I promise you will not be sorry.
Super Cheap & Fully Functional - Good Memories attached! December 12, 2007
Biffybeans (Northeast, PA)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
How can't you write a good review about a $9.99 portable AM/FM radio? I wanted a small radio that I could hang from my bedpost to listen to music at night without having to get up and turn a radio off across the room.
When I was very young, I used to have this stuffed raccoon that had an AM radio in it's stomach. I'd lie in my bed at night playing with that radio, quietly listening and giggling to Dr Demento.
In this digital age, sometimes I think there's something wrong with me for liking the tinny mono sound of AM radio. My only disappointment is that I didn't realize that there's not so much music on AM radio anymore. It's all talk radio & sports. All is good, and now I can play with this radio late at night, listening quietly as I did in the past.
At $9.99, it's a bargain.
Rugged February 13, 2007
Frank Chordas (Berkeley, CA United States)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I have used this radio on the job for 6 months and dropped it scores of times, kept on the floor of my truck,subjected it to temperature extremes and it always worked like a charm. It pulled in distant and weak stations, had good sound, and put out high volume before distortion kicked in. I finally caused the internal ferrite AM antenna to break in half by dropping it 18 feet to the sidewalk and even then it would work if I shook it just right. I am ordering a new one today and I thought that I would say to all of you perspective buyers that I agree with all the good things said in other reviews and let you know that mine withstood 6 months of extreme abuse.
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