[Scan-DC] Grundig G3 on sale at Radio Shack $89.99

[Walt Tolpa]

I ordered my G3 via the web and picked up the AN200 AM loop antenna on sale at the local RS. Question is, is it worth buying the AM loop antenna? Seems to improve AM sensitivity on older AM radios I wonder if it will improve AM performance on the G3?

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,


 
> To: b_thom at rocketmail.com; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net; w4jecom at w4je.com; oldsdoug at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:55:53 -0500
> From: b_thom at juno.com
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Grundig G3 on sale at Radio Shack $89.99
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:53:38 -0500 David Staples
> <dstaples at gwmail.gwu.edu> writes:
> > As an addendum to this, I just discovered you can use the coupon 
> > code
> > RSJAN09 and you get an additional $10 off your order, plus the free
> > shipping. Helps to cancel out the sales tax. I got mine all told 
> > for
> > $84.00
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:47 AM, merlin Jacobs 
> > <merlinjacobs at verizon.net>wrote:
> > 
> > > This Shortwave radio with SSB, Air and sync sells for $150.00. 
> > Radio Shack
> > > has it on Black Friday sale for $89.99 plus free Fedex ground 
> > shipping. I
> > > just ordered mine
> > > Merlin
> 
> I went to my neighborhood Radio Shack yesterday (Saturday) evening,
> having called ahead and been told that there were two in the store. I
> wanted to know if you could get the extra $10 off the price on an
> in-store purchase. You cannot. The price in the stores is, though, the
> same as the price online, $89.99. There's no shipping when you buy it in
> the store, and you still pay the sales tax. I was about to leave, once I
> had bought a pair of the Skullcandy headphones mentioned a few posts
> back, when I noticed, sitting on the counter, a stack of coupons. They
> give you $15 off any qualifying purchase over $60, and they are good from
> Sunday, November 29 through Saturday, December 5.
> 
> The store manager, who had not earlier been able to find the radios said
> to be in stock, said, "let me look again." He found them. I bought the
> headphones and said,"I'll see you tomorrow."
> 
> I went in today and bought my radio. The coupon works like a rebate, in
> the sense that the purchase rings up as $89.99, and you pay the tax on
> that. In Virginia, that's $4.50, at 5%. Then the $15 is deducted. If you
> want to nitpick, you can say that the coupon is worth only $14.25 in
> Virginia. The tax situation might work out differently in DC or Maryland.
> In Delaware and Montana, you don't care. At any rate, the total for me
> was $79.49, with the radio in my hands, headed out the door.
> 
> The $89.99 price ends tomorrow, and the coupon began today. That gives
> you Sunday and Monday to get a good price on the radio in the store. 
> 
> I went to Radio Shack number 01-2089, at 3425 King Street in Alexandria.
> Their number is 703-845-0300. There was one radio still in stock when I
> left at about 2:00 p.m. The RSU is 2000439. The store manager, who just
> moved here from Colorado, had volunteered to drive to Bailey's Crossroads
> to get a radio if he could not find one in the store. He spent a lot of
> time with me on this sale. He knows enough about shortwave radios to know
> exactly what radio you are looking for if you call the store asking about
> a Grundig G3. His computer shows that there are twenty or so in the same
> zone as the RS I went to. I didn't catch the manager's name.
> 
> Good luck.
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