Portable AM/FM/Shortwave Radio, Batteries Operated Pocket Radios, Large Digital Display, Clock Radio with Alarm and Sleep Function, Earphone Included

This radio provides a lot of features for its low price. Pros: Small and light. It easily fits in a shirt pocket and easily carried. Nice and lightweight. Great display. Good backlight and big numbers to display the time and frequencies. Great sound for its small speaker. Very pleasant to listen to, even for something like classical music. Excellent stereo sound on headphones. Great reception for AM and FM. Digital Tuning. Big fan of digital tuning. You can manually tune to a specific frequency using the tuning dial, or scan the band, and it will find and auto-program the presets. 35 Auto programming presets per band. 3 Customizable preset buttons for each band that you can manually program and access with quick one-push access. Telescoping antenna that moves 360 degrees around and stores neatly in the indentation provided when not in use. Doubles as a digital clock and an alarm clock. It can avoid using batteries by using a 3V DC charger. (Charger not included) Comes with a cheap set of wired earbuds. It stands up upright fine on its own, but it also comes with a little snap-out kickstand on the back to prop it up at an angle on a flat surface if you wish to do that. Comes with a lanyard already installed to make it easy to carry. Cons: Poor Shortwave reception. Maybe reception could be better if used outdoors or by using a clip-on extension wire antenna. But using indoors with the antenna provided, it was poor. No DC Charger included On the Grey model, the white lettering is hard to read. I recommend you go with the black model to avoid that problem. The radio takes 2 AA batteries. For the clock, I needed to use the instructions on how to set the time, but the rest of the controls weren't too hard to figure out without instructions. At the time of my purchase, this radio was slightly less than $10. Just a phenomenal value for under $10. Still a good value for under $20 in my opinion.

I gave this 4 stars within the $15 radio category. There are many better models at higher prices. For something with this basement price it has quite a few features including: 12/24 hour click, alarm, sleep timer, earphone jack and earphones (included), dial light, auto tune storage, favorite station buttons, digital frequency display, carry strap, English manual and a lock button. It supports both US and European frequency ranges for MW/FM. There is FM stereo with headphones. The clock is visible with the radio off, and can operate for months on a battery charge. The display and button labels are very easy to read, as can be seen in the photo. Since the clock is always on, this makes sense as an alarm clock set to an FM radio station. One nice touch is the three favorite channel pushbuttons. The manual is printed front an back on an oversized sheet, and appears complete, well-illustrated and in fine English. I give it an “A” grade. Long-pressing the BAND button in shortwave mode tabs through the 9 individual shortwave bands: 3, 4,75, 5.95, 7.1, 9.5, 11.65, 13,6, 15,1, 17.5, and 21.45 MHz. Tuning is then accomplished by turning a wheel on the side of the radio. I intuitively expect that a clockwise turn of a wheel increases frequency, but in this case it’s a decrease. Shortwave reception isn't bad and can be improved with a clip-on antenna. The radio has auto-tune storage; it will search for stations and save them for quick access; however, there are only 30 stations for each band, and the user can't manually add them. (The 3 favorites can be set.) Some folks report confusion on how to set the clock. I made a video to accompany the review showing how it's done.

Love the radio, but don't buy it for the shortwave. Am and Fm work fine, like the digital tuning. Tried the shortwave and did not pickup any stations. Sound and volume are good, if I need another radio I would consider.

Great radio. One thing I ran accross was adjustting the volum to zero to prevent that pop we all get on radio's and other electronics, When I adjusted the volume to zero, and turned it off; the next time I turned it on with it yet on zero, it went full volume even though it still showed zero. just a peace of advice (don't do that especially if you have head phones on otherwise it could damage the speaker; without head phones pluged in that is. One should always turn the device on plug in the phones before placing in buds or headphones on any sound device to avoid that pop. Also They are only called short wave they are actually very long wave frequencies and a long wire antenna works best to picki up SW Transmissions.

Stopped working shortly after I bought it. Right after the return window closed. DO NOT BUY!!!!!

It works okay but wasn’t what was described.

This little radio has amazing sensitivity . It's almost magical what it does ! It can be tuned to a station which is barely audible at all but if you leave it at that frequency and don't move it, in about a minute or less it will gradually get louder and louder ( thats without you increasing the volume! ) as if it locks on to it puts all of its energy into pulling it in !! I like to collect radios so I have purchased many over the years and most are short on sensitivity . I'm talking in this price range. The ability to pull in distant stations is as good or better than the pricier radios. I don't think you will be disappointed.

Picks up stations good, but wastes battery life quickly. Sound is good. (Lcd screen is constantly on uses alot of energy) The DC jack in radio not good, very loose when plugged in with adapter, it loses power or shuts off, when I move radio around, or press buttons on it, which is annoying.