L'IMPORTANZA STORICA DI QUESTO RICEVITORE

Per capire l'importanza storica di questo gioiellino, non c'è nulla di meglio che riportare qui testualmente quanto scritto nel World Radio TV Handbook del 1980 a pagina 540, nella rubrica "WRTH Tests New Table Model Receivers":

"After World War II, the novelty of radio and things foreign having worn off, shortwave listening settled into a thirty-year trough. [...] The almost unnoticed spark to reignite shortwave listening came in the early 1970's, when a South African appliance manifacturer produced the first direct linear-readout shortwave radio for the mass consumer market. This portable radio, the Barlow-Wadley XCR-30, allowed shortwave stations to be dialled directly, like local stations, ending forever decades hit-and-miss tuning. It also incorporated selective bandwidth filtration to reduce adiacent-channel interference."