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Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2024
Bit smaller than I figure it would be and surprised on how well and loud it sounds for its size. Has very good reception. This thing has a dsp chip that is very good on locking on a shortwave frequency even when the station falls into the static. I have another radio with the dsp chips that goes haywire when the shortwave station falls into static giving me thoughts on not liking analog tuning radios made these days. Well this radio shows that these modern analog tuning radios with the dsp chip are working better. However. The tuner of the radio kinda has a drawback. It is easily overloaded by strong local am stations when connected to the longwire antenna. I had a quick solution to help lower the overload by raising the antenna one section high and wrapping a thin coated wire around the antenna with no bare wire touching the radio’s antenna. Only strip off the wire at the end away from the radio’s antenna and attach the long wire antenna to the stripped end. Also I have another wire attached from the earth ground to where the long wire antenna is attached to the other wire to the antenna. Shortwave signal comes in very well and overload is greatly reduced. Local am and fm stations from strong to weak come in very well. With the sound so good on this thing from the radio and memory card. Over all the years hearing the noaa radio station on many different radios. This radio is yet the best thing I heard the weather station on. The sound analyzer light display is another thing I like best about this radio. Makes me think of the light displays that stereos and boomboxes used to have. For the price of this radio. It is very good and fun to have.
Wyomatt
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2024
This tiny radio is one of the best toys I've bought in a long time. It's easy to use and the speaker sounds surprisingly good considering it's only about the diameter of a quarter coin. It fits right in your palm and you can take it anywhere. The tuning wheel is very small but it has some sort of digital channel assist so when you move the frequency to the stations it basically locks on. This feature pretty much makes the radios for me. I have a small emergency hand crank radio that's full analog and it constantly drifts so I'm glad this radio is so much betterUnfortunately I cannot get a single shortwave channel with the supplied antenna but more experimenting is required and the instructions say to try it outside. I also know SW picks up better at night so I'll try that too.
WNC Retiree
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2024
This is a GREAT inexpensive little radio. It is small but packs a lot of features - great sound, rechargeable battery, FM, AM, SW, WB, Bluetooth, and a Sleep Timer. Plus you can play your favorite MP3 and WMA files via a Micro SD Card. I use mine for travel since it takes up very little space.
EFKAN KIRAÇ
Reviewed in Turkey on July 20, 2024
Bu mini radyo, size eski günleri yaşatıyor. Sesi çok net. Şarjı kolay. Kesinlikle tavsiye ederim.
mireille g.
Reviewed in France on April 1, 2024
Son clair et puissant/acquisition des fréquences fm précise/pas de prise jack pour des écouteurs/ prévue pour servir d’enceintes Bluetooth pour votre iPhone par exemple/bonne autonomie/câble d’antenne à clipser sur l’antenne de la radio efficace En résumer, bon achat qui mérite ses 5 étoiles
J. Grant
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2023
I grew up in a time when a Shortwave radio receiver usually cost about 100 bucks and was half the size of a VCR. Saw this, scoffed, and decided to get it.I am now scoffless. It actually works.It has both digital scanning and an analog tuning control. Picks up AM/FM/NOAA no problem with the attached antenna, and I about fell over when I attached it to a long length of wire as the antenna and picked up a SW station from all the way across the state.The sound quality of this TINY speaker cannot be overstated. It's not bone-shaking bass, but that there IS bass is surprising for a device that's smaller than a pack of cigarettes. Good range, and amusingly has a preprogrammed, adjustable EQ setting.Pairing to Bluetooth was simple and worked great. A test with a SD card allowed me to play MP3s in the root directory, but not in folders. Not a big deal.I will note that the first unit I was sent arrived damaged - the battery would not charge at all. The replacement arrived 2 days later, and works flawlessly. Also, the included wire antenna extension is mehhhh, but you need a longer wire for shortwave reception anyway.If you have a radio enthusiast in your life, this is an EXCELLENT gift choice.
ORJAV
Reviewed in Mexico on June 1, 2023
No cumplió con lo ofrecido no funcionó dónde se carga la batería y no sirvió la tarjeta TF no la lee.
Ray L. Trussell
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2023
I am an avid short wave listener, as well as a ham radio operator. I also like motorcycles, and motorcycle camping. That said, you could imagine that I like to combine both, and I usually took a Grundig radio with me on my adventures. It worked well and has good sound, but cost me $300 and was much larger than this thing. I originally bought this radio because, like the Baofeng ham radios, it was a brutally cheap Chinese radio. I figured if this one didn't work well, or I broke it or lost it, would I really be out much? Well after having it for a couple of weeks, I can say I would be out quite a bit.Simply put, this radio is pretty doggone awesome! It came with about a 10 ft section of wire and an external antenna, but that's not a very good antenna in my opinion. I have 100 ft 18 gauge long wire that I clip to the antenna, and it rivals the Grundig for sensitivity. The sound is pretty good for its size, and though I've seen criticisms about its battery life, it's just a short USB-C charge away from being full. I usually carry several USB charger packs with me, so I have no problem with battery life at all. I used it a couple of hours every evening, and it made it 5 days and still had power. What is surprising to me Is that even though as an 'analog style' tuner, it really is a digital radio. Being so small the analog tuner is, as you would imagine, somewhat hard to get right on the channel. But not to worry, the digital signal processing part of the radio seems to latch on to the frequency very easily and bring it to the forefront. A simple up or down twist of the tuner easily takes it to a different station, but you can pick out whatever you're listening to pretty easily. It's as if the tuner knob is used to basically nudge the frequency 'focus' up or down, just let the digital part of the radio handle the rest.It also has a pre-program feature that goes through the frequency band and saves anything of merit into the presets. I find that it works very well, and even though you're not quite sure what frequency it is, if you listen to SWL long enough, you know generally where your stations and it's not hard to pick them out.It has several other features that really aren't very practical for what I do, such as Bluetooth or microSD card. I've tried the Bluetooth with my phone, and it works fine, but it certainly is not a Bose mini sound bar. Which it wasn't designed to be by any means, and I have no use for it as such.This thing works great, is small, lightweight, and perfect for motorcycle camping. I would think it would be nice for backpackers or a similar use, and has decent enough battery life that I don't think it would be an issue unless you were a serious, long-term backpacker. I have plenty of other things that need charging, such as a GoPro or a drone, and they all use micro USB so this fits right in with everything else.The retro look is interesting as well, but instead of an old timey radio, this is a pretty powerful digital receiver underneath the olive drab color.In summary, this is curiously, interesting little digital radio with an analog control knob, that seems to work all bands up to 17 MHz or so very well. I don't know if I'm quite ready to retire my grundig, but honestly this seems to fit the bill as a replacement very well. And it's about 1/5 the size, so I think it's going to go on quite a few more trips with me and the Grundig will retire to an earned place on the shelf in the ham shack.
Daniel B.
Reviewed in Germany on November 21, 2023
Dieses kleine Radio ist schon bemerkenswert.Der Empfang auf UKW (FM) ist super und glas-klar. Bei lokalen Sendern schon mit eingeschobener Antenne.Nach Sonnenuntergang hört man auch, dass auf MW und KW im europäischen Ausland und darüber hinaus noch einiges los ist. Ich konnte schon ein paar britische, französische, spanische und arabische Sender gut hören, die ich bis jetzt allerdings nicht exakt zuortnen konnte.Die Frequenzskala ist eher ein "Schätzeisen" und lässt sich, aufgrund der blendenden LED-Beleuchtung im Dunkeln nicht ablesen.Für das Abstimmen schwächerer Sender bedarf es etwas Fingerspitzengefühls. Aber die "Tuned"-LED hilft ganz gut.Die Drahtantenne mit Kroko-Klemme für KW ist schon sehr nützlich. Ist aber nur ein Draht. Jeder andere würde es hier natürlich auch tun. Auch für UKW kann man diese Antenne anklemmen und ggf etwas mit der Ausrichtung spielen.Das Raddy lässt sich über BT mit diversen Quellen wie Handi oder MP3-Player verbinden und kann zur Widergabe verwendet werden. Der Klang ist FÜR DIESE GRÖSSE bemerkenswert!Das Lautstärke-Poti arbeitet absolut stufenlos und kann auch flüsterleise.Das Radio liest auch Mikro-SD-Karten mit MP3. Mangels Display ist dies aber zB für Hörbücher mit mehreren Kapiteln in der Handhabung schon sehr unpraktisch. Für Musikberieselung absolut ok.Wünschenswert wäre aber eine Kopfhörerbuchse.Es gibt die Möglichkeit die 7 Kanäle des North American National Weather Bands (162.400-162.550 MHz) einzustellen, das natürlich nicht bis Mitteleuropa empfangbar ist. Aber vielleicht hat der eine oder andere Funkamateur oder Hobbyist Verwendung dafür. :)Der wechselbare Akku (BL-5C) wurde übrigens in Massen für diverse, nicht mehr nutzbare, Nokia-Handis produziert, ist wie für Nokia bedruckt und immernoch verfügbar. Das ist doch mal wirtschaftlich!Alleine das rechtfertigt 5 Sterne.
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