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.

This tiny radio is one of the best toys I've bought in a long time. It's easy to use and the speaker sounds surprisingly good considering it's only about the diameter of a quarter coin. It fits right in your palm and you can take it anywhere. The tuning wheel is very small but it has some sort of digital channel assist so when you move the frequency to the stations it basically locks on. This feature pretty much makes the radios for me. I have a small emergency hand crank radio that's full analog and it constantly drifts so I'm glad this radio is so much betterUnfortunately I cannot get a single shortwave channel with the supplied antenna but more experimenting is required and the instructions say to try it outside. I also know SW picks up better at night so I'll try that too.

This is a GREAT inexpensive little radio. It is small but packs a lot of features - great sound, rechargeable battery, FM, AM, SW, WB, Bluetooth, and a Sleep Timer. Plus you can play your favorite MP3 and WMA files via a Micro SD Card. I use mine for travel since it takes up very little space.

The TF card MP3 playback is awesome. An audiophile experience, considering the speaker's limitations.To tune in stations you must dial at a snail's pace snail's pace. But then the DSP circuits do their magic. I also love the "VU" meters when playing MP3 files!!!BTW, I'm an audiophile, retired audio engineer & professional DJ, playing my own S.W.E.A.D.R.E. MP3 files that are free of square waves.