D808 Portable AM FM SW LW Air Band Shortwave Radio SSB RDS Multi Band Digital Radio Speaker with LCD Display Alarm Clock External Antenna (Black)

This radio is amazing.Really shines on AM,esp at night.Too many features to mention.SSB works great,but sometimes gets a little vibration but not a problem in listening.Air band works FANTASTIC. I pick up the tower from an airport 45 miles away.Has squelch.Does have a learning curve as some buttons have multi function. Very sensitive on all bands.I live in the midwest and pick up stations from China during the day.You can listen to military air bases and hams on ssb.Come in very good with just a 60 ft speaker wire stuck outside.Battery life last forever.Has nice weight to it coz it's solidly built.For the price WELL WORTH IT.Buttons are solid as well as tuning wheel

This little radio has very good reception for both FM and SW. ( I haven't tested it for AM) It is very small, so if you want a small FM receiver with external antenna jack and great FM DX ability, this is the one.

Love the reception and sound on this radio! I use it for shortwave and am/fm. I love that it has an external antenna port which really amplifies the signal and brings in more stations.

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.

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.