RF750

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.

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.

The Radio does a superior job with amazing sound from such a small speaker. It also give you so many choices of what band to play, with lights that show you the stations, how good the reception is, and how much power is used to find that station in your area. The battery lasts for a long time, and the special attachment for Shortwave stations brings more stations in. I recommend this Radio for all who want something to take where ever they go.

Nice little radio. Once you read the instructions and play with it a bit, it's easy to operate it. Surprised what it picks up in my house with the tiny antenna. I really wish it was removable. Kinda wish it would do ssb, especially at this price. Sounds good, not like my U.E speaker but very good with voice. Bluetooth paired effortlessly with my pixel 6 pro. The volume knob isn't the easiest to adjust but it fits the asthetic. Unfortunately it does feel cheap. The plastic is toy quality at best and I'd be scared to drop it. It does look cool, like a retro military radio. The wrist strap is probably the most solid piece on it. LEDs are cool and more than bright enough. Selecting frequencies isn't precise, but it does tune in if you only use the numbers to get you close. I think a lcd display would be better instead of the rotating cylinder display. I think this setup was chosen for cost and durability over function. Battery cover is flimsy, I don't think I'd be removing the battery often. Speaking of, the battery does last. I've been tinkering with the unit for a few days on Bluetooth and SW and it's still going. Overall I'm satisfied with my purchase. It's very useful and compact. I am only giving it 4 stars as I feel it's priced somewhat higher than I feel it should, and i can't get over the cheap feel.

1) It has a decent rechargeable Lion battery (at least the one I got), 2) It is very small, so for a camping or bugout bag, might be a good choice 3) The weather radio actually receives clearly, a weather channel in my house, I have other NOAA radios that can't pick up the weak signal. 4) For a small AM/FM radio, it works reasonably well. But all of the switch indicators are impossible to see without a high intensity light and a magnifying glass. The top buttons are black, with feint symbols, also black. There is a concept called Contrast. I think someone invented it in the 1950's . try adding some contrast. And not sure why they could not label the AM band as "AM" rather than "MW". The radio "dial" numbers are also invisible without lights and magnification. Shiny gold colored numbers against a shiny background. Are you kidding me? 4b) The tuner is too easily bumped and knocked off station. 5) Shortwave? forget it, unless you have your own proven long wire antenna. I have no reason to doubt that the receiver itself can work, but it needs a 100 ft long antenna or something. At least for me, I scanned all the frequencies and got nothing clear enough to listen to. I have several SW radios, so am no stranger to it. 6) Bluetooth? Weak sound output. It is a step down from the cell phone speaker, so it has little to no value. (Note that sound output in the radio mode is fine, and the speaker does reasonably well for being the size it is). 7) I didn't try the SD card player. 8) I didn't try to run it long enough for the batteries to be expended, so can't comment on battery life, other than it will certainly play for a couple hours on a charge. I saw reviews complaining the battery will drain while not in use. I can't imagine how that can be, unless there is a short circuit somewhere, or a defective battery. If you are camping or bugging out, (Or if you are using it for a power failure emergency radio), you might get a few spare batteries and charge them all up. I'm sure you can buy a couple batteries and a wall charger for not all that much. Radio weight is 4.6 oz. , about 3.5 inches tall. 1.5 inches thick, X 2.25 inches wide. Antenna extends 11 inches from the top of the unit. Edit: Had to update the review after reading the manual. The 6 little buttons on the top need to be understood. Download the manual. 1) the upper right button if held down for 2 seconds will do a full scan of the band you are on, and automatically store the first 20 stations it finds. It will flash the little radio symbol light on the front while it is scanning, and it will auto play the first station it found once the scan is completed. 2) You can then toggle between the 20 presents it has created by using the lower right 2 buttons. (reverse and forward). This is way easier than fiddling with the manual tuner wheel. To get the weather channels, you hit the lower left button on the top until the upper left band indicator light comes on for WB "WeatherBand". , then on the front face and to the right, there is a button that says "MOD" if you have enough light to see it, Pressing this will cycle between the 10 Weather band channels. The radio deserves buttons that you can read, because there is some good features on it, if you can read and decipher the tiny buttons. Maybe add a little sticker on the side (that you can read) that helps the user remember and locate the important buttons?

By far the smallest "radio" I have purchased. This little thing has more packed into it than most larger radios. First the so so stuff: The sound is acceptable. (The speaker is the size of a quarter) The volume knob is tiny and touchy at very low levels. Because it is small the tuning knob wants a patient hand as you manually tune. The other stuff: AM, FM, Weather and Shortwave radio! Self tuning! You can pre-program stations to the buttons! It acts as a Bluetooth speaker! It has a port for a data card! - I have one in there with over 300mb of MP3s Rechargeable battery! It's inexpensive! It announces what function you are currently set on when turning on or when you switch! Its fairly easy to operate, but having the manual is handy too have, because it does a bunch of stuff. This tiny thing sits on my work desk and provides quiet background music, or over the air news, music or talk, and a phone speaker enhancement when you need one. I like this cheap tiny radio more than any other I have purchased in a long time. It's like having and audio swiss army knife.

does not pick up very well at all !!

I've only had this out of the box for an hour, but I am so impressed! I haven't used short-wave in decades, (assume like always that it still works better at night), but the radio is fabulously brilliant! The sound from the radio is better than my phone speaker. It's so tiny! So sturdy! For this price, it's absolutely incredible. I saw it a long time ago, and wish I had bought one sooner.