Opinions on a Philips D2999 portable?
Christer Carlsson
Being on the Net for only 3 months, I recently discovered this group.
Long ago I was a very active DX-er with special interested in South
American stations in the tropical bands. QSL from every country in
South and Central America was the result of hundreds of hours of
listening specially in the 60-meter band.
My question: What is the general opinion of Philips D2999? During my
active era I used RCA AR-88D and Trio´s. I recently bought this
Philips just to keep in touch with the SW. I find that this Philips is
quite sensitive but think its strong-signal appearance is bad. Anyone
used it?
Greetings from Sweden!
christer...@mailbox.swipnet.se
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Walt Novinger
listen to on strong stations (e.g., major SW broadcasters). Mine does
well on the strong signals, with no apparent overloading; if this is a
problem, simply switch to the "Local" position to throw in 20dB or so of
attenuation. If this is still not enough, set the RF Gain switch to
"Man" and back off on the RF Gain control.
My only complaints with the rdio are the 1kHz tuning steps and the lack
of a product detector for SSB. I'm not sure if the AGC is off on my set,
but it seems not to hold well thru fades...I have the technical manual,
so will be checking this out one of these days.
Walt
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Ian Smith
christer...@mailbox.swipnet.se "Christer Carlsson" writes:
> My question: What is the general opinion of Philips D2999? During my
> active era I used RCA AR-88D and Trios. I recently bought this
> Philips just to keep in touch with the SW. I find that this Philips is
> quite sensitive but think its strong-signal appearance is bad. Anyone
> used it?
There were two versions of the D2999. The first suffered *very* bad
front-end problems so Philips recalled it. They breathed on it and it
was reissued with a few modifications which improved the front-end
somewhat. However, the D2999's strength is it's audio, not it's strong
signal handling which is still only so-so. The name of it's game is
self-contained effortless audio and for that the only rivals are the big
Grundigs.
Like the Grundig Satellit 600/650, the D2999 was the end of an era,
indeed, the end of a whole style of "portable" SW radio. They hark back
to the days when the focus of every home was it's radio. In that sense,
the big Grundigs and Philips were the creme de la creme of their day.
Their day, sadly, was yesterday. Like most last of a line models, they
were obsolete before they were born.
I couldn't say what the general opinion is, but my opinion is that it's
best suited to hour after hour listening to strong signals. You can use
an external antenna, but it doesn't help in strong signal areas like
Europe with the D2999's mediocre overloading performance. I wouldn't say
it was a DX set, but if you're good I expect you'll still hear DX. For
what it's worth, my D2999 still holds pride of place for mealtime
listening, as it has done for almost ten years. I expect to use it 'til
it dies and it had better not do that for at least another ten years :)
Then again, it could outlast me as I've yet to have a SW receiver die.
Ian.
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