The Qodosen is touted as a very sensitive radio and it lives up to its reputation. I also have a Tecsun PL-660 which is on par with my car’s radio but the Qodosen blows the two out of the water. It’s simply able to pull in weak radio stations with ease and greater clarity. Living in metropolitan Melbourne, I might lucky to be able to get a staticky signal of FM stations from Geelong or Gippsland on the Tecsun, but with the Qodosen, if I point the antenna right, the same stations come in with such clarity that they might as well be local stations. On FM, the difference in improved reception is very pronounced, and the Tecsun is no slouch either. On AM likewise, indoors the improvement is not as much but is still there nonetheless, partially owing to the lack of synchronous detection, which the Tecsun has. On AM frequencies where there is no local stations on similiar frequencies, the Qodosen wins easily, but on frequencies where there is a local frequency nearby, the Tecsun offers the option to choose one of the sidebands which the Qodosen does not - for example: trying to tune into 702 kHz from Sydney while 693 kHz is a local Melbourne station. Nevertheless, the Qodosen never falls behind on AM. But outdoors away from radio interference where the external whip antenna is able to be utilised for AM, the Qodosen is simply out of this world. Where there is silence on the Tecsun and the car radio, the Qodosen pulls in radio stations with ease. The gap between the Qodosen and the Tecsun and car radio feels like the gap between the Tecsun and your run-of-the-mill household radio. AM outdoors is simply not a fair comparison. Furthermore, the Qodosen also has RDS, which is a nice feature to have. It is also quite tiny, and can conveniently fit in the pocket. Overall the Qodosen is a great radio and I would highly recommend.
