| Average Customer Rating: 4.0/5
Total Reviews: 69 |
Rating: 5
Best Radio I have ever bought
I can't say enough about how much I love this radio. Let me put it this way, I dropped it into our tub, completely submerged, and the sucker still worked. That was over a year ago. A great radio.
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Rating: 5
Makes a good present....
| I own on of these and love it so much I got my brother one for Christmas. Though small, this radio has great reception of regular and shortwave channels, without any sort of cumbersome antenna wire to deal with. The batteries last a long, long time, even when I fell asleep and left it on all night a couple times. Just don't break the antenna off right away, which I always seem to do! Anyone would have fun with this. (Oh, and it's VERY sturdy. I actually did a human cannonball thing, diving face first onto mine, when holding onto the dog's leash as it saw a cat, and though I got a black eye, the radio was unscathed and still working great.) |
Rating: 4
A great little radio for what it is.
| This is my second one of these. I got this model's predecessor back in the late 80s and it traveled the world with me. Reception is very good with the built in antenna and superb is you clip an accessory antenna onto the built in telescope antenna. Audio quality is not great on the 2.5" speaker, but you can connect headphones of powered speakers via the earphone jack and the quality is excellent. The audio quality is limited by the speaker not the signal quality. BIG PLUS with this radio: It has analog tuning. I know everything's supposed to be digital nowadays, but analog tuning is the way to browse the shortwave spectrum. Digital will pass over weak signals and really unpleasant to listen to when scanning and browsing (with the thump, thump, thump). Yes, analog can drift, be prepared to fine tune occasionally. But I expect most people listening to the shortwave bands want to se what's out there rather than jumping to a favorite station; and analog tuning is exactl;y what you need for that. This radio has prety good DX reception on the AM (MW) and FM bands as well. Listeners in the Southeast can pick up normal AM stations all over the Carribean and Central America on this radio at night. My earlier model has more weight to the body, but I don't erally know that it's any sturdier. Modern plascits are prety strong. Also, Sangean's equivalent of this radio back in the 80s cost more like $85 back then. We're getting much more value now. It's not much to look at but this is really a fine, inexpensive, radio for listening to the world. It's cheap enough that it won't break your budget. A word about AC adaptors: Cheap ones will generate an annoying 120Hz hum because they don't filter the AC adequately. No problem with strong local signals, but it will wipe out the weak stations. Either get a very good one, or stick with bateries. Also; consider getting a slinky type SW antenna. They can be had for under $20 and will increase your SW reception tremendously. All you need to do is hang one up and clip it to the telescoping antenna on the radio. |
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