GreadioPortable Shortwave Radio with Best Reception,AM FM Transistor,LCD Display,Time Setting,Battery Operated by 4 D Cell Batteries or AC Power,Big Speaker,Earphone Jack for Gift,Elder,Home

I got this radio for my mom, whom I'm the caregiver for. She hates TV and lives the talk radio stations. The other radio she had was nothing but static and hard to tube. This is a great size, lightweight and small footprint. It's so easy to tune and read. There is no static and the voices come in loud and clear, not funny or mumbled like her last radio. It's a simple design which is perfect for my elderly mom, few buttons and dials. It took her just a minute to figure it out. This is my 4th try at finding the perfect radio. I sent 3 back but this one is a keeper. Quality, built to last and easy operation, clear and loud.

This was an EXCELLENT product. It's sound quality is great, it's weight is perfect, and it's size is perfect.

Nice design.Controls are easyto see and manipulate. Sound is deep and plenty loud for smaller rooms. FM comes In the best, easily picks up Syracuse and Utica, 50 miles away, loud and clear. AM not as strong.I have not tried SW. I wanted to access a good PBS station and I got it. I also sometimes hit a late night station playing old time radio shows which 'are always a hoot. For the low price and good quality, you cantbeat this little radio

This radio is excellent. The reception is great. No static. I love it

The radio just arrived yesterday. Good speaker and volume. Pulls in twice as many stations as my older radio. It holds the station that you set so I am not constantly adjusting the station knob. Has a time function so it can also serve as a clock. The earplugs are basic but they work. Overall, I am very pleased. I cannot speak to longevity but I would guess that it will last several years.

Likes...easy to use. Comes in clear..can be loud if you prefer. Price was right.Dislikes..would have preferred AA batteries instead of D...but not a problem

UPDATE May 25, 2023For a while, I've tuned "blind" for local AM/FM stations. This morning, the radio went totally went dead. What a piece of Chinese JUNK! AVOID!UPDATE November 14, 2022 -The digital frequency/clock display has just died (cannot see). At times, you can see if faintly if you view it 'off axis' as in looking up from the bottom of the radio. I will consider this a piece of Communist Chinese junk unless the seller reads this and offers a replacement. I looked all over for a "ask seller a question" like but to no avail. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!Well, it works and sounds pretty good. This unit picks up local AM and FM radio stations. The short-wave section also picks up stations but exhibits interference from out of band signals, which is strange because we have few if any strong signals that would cause such problems. This radio is easy to operate. I note that the frequency counter (the digits on the front panel that attempts to show you the frequency the radio is tuned to) is not very accurate. For example, when listening to a local station on 730 AM, when the station is properly tuned in/sounds best, the digital readout says 732. I noticed the same thing on FM where 95.3 sounds better when tuned to 95.4.This radio is advertised as a "DSP" radio. I'm sure it is but it sure is a cheap/faulty implementation of digital signal processing. Case in point is seen when trying to listen to weak stations. When trying to listen to a station on 800 KHz, this radio involuntarily shifts between two or three competing signals. I can't tell whether these are on adjacent frequencies (like 790 and 810) or the radio is gathering samples from multiple signals on the same frequency. My read is that this radio uses a very poor DSP chip. It would have been far better to use a more conventional superheterodyne circuit, although that might cost more to implement these days.Would I buy this radio again? No! Should you buy it, probably, but it's really not a great bargain. I notice other radios without the digital readout for $10 less. They'd probably work just as good.

I bought the Greadio radio for my kitchen, replacing a ten-year-old portable which cost three times as much but which finally died. I can't comment on Greadio battery life because I plug it directly into a wall outlet, using the supplied AC cord. I do keep batteries it it in case of a power outage, and for this review I am running it on batteries ... it provides decent volume but at max the speaker can be distorted.I live in suburban Boston MA where there are many FM stations. The Greadio has a digital tuner that often cannot focus on a weaker station if there is an adjacent one with a stronger signal. Sound quality is lacking in deep bass response (jazz, funk) but probably acceptable to most listeners. The deep bass response does not improve when listening through headphones of ear buds (not provided).Overall build quality of the case is precise and solid in appearance.