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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: Matt285 on September 09, 2019, 1932 UTC

Title: SONY CRF V21 shortwave radio
Post by: Matt285 on September 09, 2019, 1932 UTC
I saw a SONY CRF V21 shortwave radio on Ebay with a buy it now price of $12,000. It looked like the current bidding was over $9,000. I had never seen this receiver before. It has an internal thermal printer to print RTTY and Fax transmissions. If you are lucky enough to have one it was a good investment!

Title: Re: SONY CRF V21 shortwave radio
Post by: Josh on September 09, 2019, 2107 UTC
I saw an ad in MT wanteds back in the 90s for these, someone or some org had gotten several from the Saudi embassy I think it was. They wanted like 4k for each back then.
Title: Re: SONY CRF V21 shortwave radio
Post by: sat_dxer on September 10, 2019, 1958 UTC
WX satellite delivered analog WEFAX services were discontinued on 12 March 2008
Title: Re: SONY CRF V21 shortwave radio
Post by: Josh on September 11, 2019, 1422 UTC
I think these do hf fax too.
Title: Re: SONY CRF V21 shortwave radio
Post by: BoomboxDX on September 13, 2019, 0334 UTC
A lot of the older Sony stuff commands high prices, even the lower end models. I recently saw a Sony ICF-38 (a very good AM-FM portable, almost as good as a Superadio), which was discontinued two years ago, going for $199 -- new in the box. I got mine about 5 years ago for $24.

The Sony EX5MK2, probably one of the best MW portables made, was discontinued a year and a half ago. They went for $150 new. Now they've sometimes more than doubled in price.

On one of the ham forums there are some threads complaining about used receiver prices... R8's, IC-71's, etc. commanding super high prices, used.

I think I saw an advertisement for the Sony CRF V21 a long time ago. Looked like a very complex radio, especially with the printer. It seems one would have an issue finding paper for the printer nowadays, though.