Shortwave Radio FM/AM/SW Transistor AA Battery Powered with Orange Key Backlight LCD Display Digital Alarm Clock Sleep Timer,Best Reception Best Sound Pocket Receiver 218SW

Works well

I bought this radio as a gift for a person who likes to listen to music as she takes her daily exercise walks. She loves it! She says the flashlight is great, it is easy to use and even has a built-in panic alarm. It fits in a pocket and ear plugs can be plugged into it. Great little item for the price.

Se escucha bien, la duración de laa batería no es extraordinaria, pero lo quiero para emergencias, no para uso diario. La lámpara tiene dos intensidades y me parece muy útil.

Worked well during the derechio on top of everything great value keep it charged

As stated above, i think this is a great little radio set. I was actually very pleasantly surprised, as i wasn't expecting too much with this one. Luckily, there is a good increase in technological advance recently with these budget type radio sets. I was definitely surprised to get such decent reception in AM, and particularly SW band. Both of these performed very well on this one. Not, of course, as good as my Tecsun PL330, but still very well considering its size. Once i opened the case up, i found out why these good results occurred: the main chip is a AKC6958, which is a great-performing recent DSP chip, which has also had a good bit of firmware development by PU2CLR, if you know of him. I notice that there is also an unpopulated UART on the PCB, though, so maybe firmware upgrades could be possible for the brave experimenters. I also found the opamp is the LTK4871 (a version of the LM4871), which seems a pretty decent chip, although it is a mono version. However, i did verify that the FM band is indeed stereo, through the earphones and performs well. So, i guess the opamp isn't used when the earphones are plugged in, since it is mono only. The big IC chip on the board must be for the display, i guess, but it is completely scrubbed and i couldn't identify it at all. But at least i know the radio chip, which is what counts. I found the radio to be very intuitive to use. You can make three channels as favorites, if you wish, as well as having thirty channels as memorized shortcuts. The one thing extra i wish i could do is to manually add a channel in the memory....maybe i can but missed how to do it. It scans very quickly and adds them all to memory, and then you can just click through them. I really like that i can manually scroll, too, with the side wheel, plus i love the manual tuning wheel. I don't like button pressing for volume. The speaker is obviously a bit tinny with no bass, but that's all i expect given its' size. It sounds fine for its size, and it goes way plenty loud for me. I would never need or use it at full volume....i'd be deaf. All said, this is a great little radio which will last forever on the two AA's. I love that they didn't go for AAA's. This little thing will slip in your shirt pocket, and would work great on SW with a long wire, too. The antenna is very short but it surprised me that it picks up so much. I like it.