Does the Panasonic RF-2600 Have Double Tuning Speed?

 

After reading this old blog http://herculodge.typepad.com/herculodge/2011/02/dougs-beastly-panasonic-rf-2600.html I noticed that regular readers /writers  both Ed S and Doug have that radio the Panasonic RF-2600 and perhaps they can help me with this question: 

Can anybody inform me if this Panasonic RF-2600 radio has double speed tuning like the RF-2800 or RF-2900 ?

I mean you pull and push the tuning cap to access those speeds  ? 

Perhaps you can put this question in your fine blog and they or somebody else can answer this question, please I need to know.

 

If the answer is NO perhaps I can contribute with some words for a future article /project regarding this radio.

 

Bests

 Ali

 

Comments

[Doug Rennie]

Ali,

Mine does not appear to have dual tuning speeds. I tried pushing and pulling the knob as I turned it, but this had no effect. That said, the tuning speed seems on the slower side, so precise tuning is smooth and easy. The may have been a feature that appears first on the 2800. Btw, audio is exceptional on the 2600.

Doug

[Huesby]

Thank you Doug:
I wasn´t sure about this feature because I´ve bought this radio as broken about 2 years ago and I had it on the bench for sooo looong time trying to fix many issues it had that by the time I´ve finished it, I don´t remember what I did !!! Hehehe the Alzheimer it´s coming !

For ]some time I had this radio playing OK but I didn´t like the slow speed tunning and I always longed for the double speed feature like its brother RF-2900 has. Recently I opened the radio to make a little mod with the lamps when I noticed that this radio has a very similar mechanism to the RF2900, and I also noticed a safety pin blocking the pulling action of the tunning shaft and I thought "What an idiot I am for putting that safety pin in there when in fact it does nothing but blocking the pull action" so I took it away and the radio work has the same feature like the RF2900 has, The safety pin serves has no other purpose than to block the pull action to engage the fast speed.

The radio works so fine and flawesly that for some time I though it was my fault for bad assemblying the radio, but lately I began to wonder "What if Panasonic designed the radio that way ?" ..... So I had to ask... So one more time Thank you Doug for helping me here.