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General Category => For Sale / Wanted / Barter => Topic started by: ultravista on October 23, 2022, 0241 UTC

Title: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
Post by: ultravista on October 23, 2022, 0241 UTC
I am interested in selling a VEF-SIGMA 260 Shortwave Radio w/Cassette. I have too many radios and no longer use this one. I prefer to sell it to another SWL enthusiast vs. eBay.

I do not know the value and I am open for offers.

Located in Georgia USA.

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Title: Re: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
Post by: Shortwave_Listener on October 23, 2022, 0254 UTC
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Title: Re: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
Post by: ultravista on October 28, 2022, 2359 UTC
Is this radio worth anything?
Title: Re: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
Post by: Antennae on December 04, 2022, 0122 UTC
Maybe its worth something to an ex-Soviet person who wants one for nostalgia?  Or I bet somebody who likes cassette tapes would love it because its different.  Cassettes are cool vintage now, or at least they were a couple years ago with the coffee drinking, mechanical typewriter toting, lumberjack-clothes-wearing hipsters. 
Title: Re: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
Post by: ultravista on December 04, 2022, 1640 UTC
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
Title: Re: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
Post by: Antennae on December 04, 2022, 1849 UTC
The label on the back says it cost 311 Rubles. In the 80s that was a lot of money. 
Title: Re: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
Post by: gaston on December 08, 2022, 1923 UTC
And the wait for one must have been a year or two.
Title: Re: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
Post by: Antennae on December 08, 2022, 2107 UTC
This one has the olympic rings on it so maybe it was made for that market?