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Watch Collecting Goals for 2019: Appreciate What I Have

Reading Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, I learned a lot about the pathology of watch addiction:

One. Too many watches leads to brain overload and less happiness.

Two. We must learn to appreciate what we have in order to stave off addiction.

Three. We must avoid comparing what we have with what others have, a true challenge in social media age when people curate their existence in a hyped way. 

Four. We can be happier when we choose what's "good enough" over "the best." 

Five. We should focus more on what we want more than worry what other people think we should want. 

In this context, I have some specific watch goals:

One. Keep my collection in the single digits. 

Two. Sell some watches that are too similar to other watches in my collection.

Three. Rebuy two watches I failed to appreciate when I had them: The Citizen Promaster Sky in gunmetal ( reference number BY0084-56E) and the Citizen Promaster Land (reference number CC3060-10E ). 

Four. Quit collecting? That would be nice but I don't know that will happen.

 

Carl Finds the $205 Sangean ATS-909X to be 95% as Sensitive as His $48 Tecsun PL-606

 

Carl Boches writes:

Just received a new Sangean ATS-909X black color from Amazon. I knew all about the so called deafness of the 909x. As of now my most sensitive small radio is my Tecsun PL606. I took the 606 and the 909X out on my balcony in Cebu, Philippines and tested sensitivity and selectivity. Both radios were side by side, but not so close as to have any interference from each radio. Only the whips were used, and I was very pleasantly surprised to find that the 909X picked up 95% of what my 606 did.

 

My conclusion is that there are more sensitive radios than the 909X but not by too much and that the ongoing quotes of the 909x being completely deaf is as far as I am concerned a lot hot air. Not to mention that the selectivity is outstanding.