Attached video is a religion broadcast from Madagascar, 8,800 miles away! GREAT RADIO- hello I live In USA Ohio and wanted to give some insight on this neat radio that I've had for 2 days. -The FM works great (can get stations over 100 miles away) The AM (MW) is acceptable if your outside. (The radio does NOT use either of the external antenna options for AM (MW) it uses an internal antenna for AM ONLY) -SW- Incredible quality! I've heard broadcasts from Madagascar (East of Africa), China, Spain, Cuba, France, and even Australia (very faint due to propagation) but it's there Airband- the airband is great I've heard hundreds of transmissions so far, most very clear. SSB works excellent- use it to drown out powerful stations to focus on smaller ones or find ham operators. The battery- Lasts about 30 hours if you never turn off the radio (40 hours with upgraded batteries) 100 is a little steep for a radio but this one comes with all bands and is very aesthetic. You can't find a radio that has as as much functionality as this one for under $100 Read more

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Very great radio, many options to configure for your needs. Its battery lasts many hours, to not to say days XD. Incredible sound in FM mode. Great investment for ham radio operators, and preppers. Read more

From a purely performance perspective I rate this radio as a 5+ considering it's price range. Sensitivity, selectivity, frequency resolution, frequency stability, audio quality, and battery life are all excellent. The multi-level bandwidth feature is unusual in a portable receiver of this type and it works VERY well. The audio quality is very good, especially with quality earphones which are NOT included. FM RDS is a nice touch. The manual is utterly microscopic and you WILL need magnification to read it, BUT it is written in good English and not Chinglish and is fairly easy to comprehend. I suggest zooming in with your phone and taking pictures of each page of the manual. One advantage to being small is that it will fit inside the protective bag with the receiver so that you can easily take the manual with you. One of my rather unique needs was coverage of the 10 meter ham band from 28 to 28.300 MHz and this radio does that. I knocked off a star because of the tedious memory recall function and the gap in coverage between 450 KHz and 520 KHz, which admittedly are features that most people won't care about at all but they were important to me and not well explained in the ads. The memory is mapped by band which is OK with me but you are limited to 100 memories per band and I wanted more on SW. To save a memory you select the band and frequency, then press PAGE, 0, 0 (long press), to save a frequency and mode in memory bank 0, memory location 0. To recall that frequency you must go to the band where you stored it and press PAGE, 0, 0 (short press). It works and it is fairly intuitive but wouldn't it be SO MUCH BETTER TO BE ABLE TO STEP THROUGH OR ROTATE THROUGH THE MEMORIES????????!!!!! Yes it would!! It is impossible to remember where you stored 500 frequencies. It blows my mind that that feature is non-existent on this radio which is otherwise excellent. The air band is a nice touch but there is no ability to SCAN air band channels that are programmed into memory. The squelch feature is a very nice addition specifically for the Air band. The ability to change the step size is also an awesome feature. The pig-tail antenna wire is a nice addition and it really works. One thing that was unclear in the ad was whether or not you can tune between the 9 Khz steps on longwave which not all portable radios can do. I am happy to report that it does have this capability and you can use SSB on Longwave. For example I am able to tune in the local NDB on 338 KHz and use SSB to enhance sensitivity. Read more

Good radio but small, good sensitivity but SSB is not that great. Good reception on FM and AM. Sound quality is ok, use the external antenna jack for better reception on AM and SW. Read more

Well, so far, so good. Picked up Spain last night and Japan tonight with a wire draped over the curtain rod. Definitely a keeper. Everything was in the box and in working order. It has a 9ft(?) plug-in antenna but I use one of the XHDATA wind-up ones. Ref the instructions, I downloaded the PDF file, printed it, and stuck it in a duo-tang for easy reference. Read more