Raddy RF750 Portable Shortwave Radio AM/FM/SW/WB Receiver with NOAA Alerts - Pocket Retro Mini Radio Rechargeable, w/ 9.85 Ft Wire Antenna

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.

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.

If you can get the RF75A on sale, I would go with that, but for $36 or less on this, I think you'll be happy as long as you dont need the headphone jack. The RF75A and this radio have very comparable performance, BUT .. the RF75A has a headphone jack and app control. I added my own headphone jack and was happy with the results. I know, I know .. voids the warentee, could affect the radio .. but it works fine and added a nice feature to the radio. It was not too difficult but did take me about 2 hours. For such a little ferrite core, this radio does very well on AM reception. I picked up stations over 400 miles away in the early AM. SW is great too, there's just not as much on the bands anymore. Im happy with it overall. Its a great radio to just see what you pick up.

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

Bu mini radyo, size eski günleri yaşatıyor. Sesi çok net. Şarjı kolay. Kesinlikle tavsiye ederim.

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