Found a Kenwood RZ-1 locally at a yard sale. What are they worth now?

[Paco-Jerte]

One of my neighbors is having a yard sale this weekend and as I got home yesterday they asked me if I wanted to take a look at what they have.

Well I found among their so called "Junk" a mint condition kenwood RZ-1.

I offered $10.00 for it and purchased it.

How much are these worth nowadays ??

 

[Tom_G]

Some sales from the past couple years..

Kenwood RZ-1 RZ1 Receiver

eHam.net Classifieds Kenwood RZ-1 Mobile Receiver/Scanner

 

[Paco-Jerte]

Thanks for the info. Just checked ebay and seems to be in the mid $200's recently.

This unit is kinda cool, but don't really need it. We'll see whatta do with it.

 

[CWR]

I had one in the early 1990's and loved it. The only problem was , I run my scanners 24/7 , and the Display Lights kept burning-out on mine , and I kept having to send it back in to get em replaced.........

 

[Paco-Jerte]

I had one in the early 1990's and loved it. The only problem was , I run my scanners 24/7 , and the Display Lights kept burning-out on mine , and I kept having to send it back in to get em replaced.........

The light seems to be good and bright.

 

[baker954]

What to do with it? I will take it, I need a good base scanner!

 

[Paco-Jerte]

What to do with it? I will take it, I need a good base scanner!

hehe, it's not for sale. :wink:

 

[chgomonitor]

Rz1

Be sure you run through every possible key combination. This is one of those radios with many, many functions which were not included in the manual. A very neat little set.

 

[fineshot1]

I wanted one of these radios many years ago but could not afford one.

I found links below for a user manual, service manual and one for sale
back in 2006 for $250. Use it and have fun.....

EDIT: Ooops - sorry did not notice the link above is the same - oh well

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...od+RZ1&usg=AFQjCNHd5rzGrGKLIP_rqz4WHakcHnwEwA

http://hotarc.org/manuals/kenwood/rz-1/Kenwood RZ-1_Service Manual.pdf

eHam.net Classifieds Kenwood RZ-1 Mobile Receiver/Scanner

 

[marylandterpan]

It looks like a (din) sized radio as in most vehicles radio place in the dash board..Try and see if this thing was to fit into a vehicles dash and use it as a radio also..Its a nice unit from what I hear..Good find for sure man, congrads!!

 

[NyteOwl]

It does indeed fit a DIN sized dash opening. I had mine mounted in my Thunderbird for a year and it worked great. Nothing like listening to Deutsche Welle on the way to work, or the startled looks of the car next toyou a the stop lights as the Police, Fire or EMS channels break squelch

Great little radio, good find, fantastic price. I'll give you $100

 

[Paco-Jerte]

Umm even tho this post is kinda old I wanted to update it.
I did get some pm's about selling this RZ-1 and was sold Last October for $225.

This scanner was nice, but not for what I use now a days with APCO25 so I ended up selling it.

 

[AZScanner]

Umm even tho this post is kinda old I wanted to update it.
I did get some pm's about selling this RZ-1 and was sold Last October for $225.

This scanner was nice, but not for what I use now a days with APCO25 so I ended up selling it.

That's not a bad return on a $10 investment.

-AZ