Greadio AM FM Portable Radio Transistor Radio with 3.5mm Earphone Jack, Hight/Low Tone Mode, Big Speaker, AC Power or Battery Operated by 4 D Cell Batteries for Home and Outdoor

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.

Ordered this for outside underneath our pergola. While not waterproof, it is protected from the weather underneath a canopy and is in a "ziplock" bag. So far, it works great. Clear and loud enough sound. Very happy with this for the size and price.

This is a DSP radio but it convincingly tunes like an old analog radio- it's really nice as far as this goes. But I wish it had high/low bandwidth switch instead of tone (the bandwidth is too wide for AM and SW, but for sure the radio IC has narrower bandwidth modes), and I wish it had more SW bands to make them narrower for easier tuning. The volume control is using a linear-taper pot, but it should be audio-taper (did they run out of audio taper pots?). This makes it difficult to adjust at low volume. The tuning control feels like mush (there is a string and wheel based reducer between the knob and the tuning pot, but it's too cheap). The SW/FM/AM switch is really a slide switch- with some linkage to make it into a rotary switch- this is why the settings are only like 5 degrees apart. The earphone is mono (even though the radio IC can certainly do stereo). This radio will not charge batteries when the cord is plugged in (this is a good thing- it's safe to use NIMH batteries). LCD has no backlight (IMHO, this is also a good thing).Despite my criticisms, the radio is nice in that you can actually tune in SW stations in the way you could on old analog radios. Many cheap DSP radios are hopeless at this. The sound is good thanks to the largish speaker and good audio power. The controls are simple, you don't need a manual. This radio is good for elderly people. The LCD is nice and large.

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

I purchased this radio September 2022. I use this radio every morning while getting ready for work and on the weekend while getting ready for the day. Has a good clear sound. I am purchasing a second one for my granddaughter, for her bathroom.

This is a larger size portable AM/FM radio. It is simple and easy to use with a large speaker and a large LCD digital display of the frequency. The reception is great. It has a long telescoping antenna. It also displays the time, which is very easy to set. I first purchased another portable radio that was advertised as having good reception but all but a few of the FM stations were weak with popping and it pulled in no AM stations. This radio in the same location pulls in a great many clear FM stations and many AM stations. It also has great volume. Highly recommended.

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.