My turn to go "wow!"
One of the members of our Canadian sister site is a Ham, and when he showed me pictures of this new, tiny gear I was amazed.
Those racks of mine held an R-390a as prime receiver and a Collins 51-J4 as secondary, and they weighed a ton, and needed forced draft for cooling ( tubes! )...
I'm tempted to look in to this new stuff- but I'd probably have to get one of my teenaged relatives to explain how to operate it...
I used to work on the R390 back in the day in the navy.
That thing is a boat anchor! tubes and mechanically tuned slugs but the most sensitive reciever ever built. I could tweak on to have a minimum discrernable signal at -127dbm
This little Kaito is pretty neat. Selectivity isnt stellar but it fits in your pocket.
A lot of people bitch about this Kaitos ergonomics.
I found it very intuitive to use. didnt have to read the manual.