XHDATA D219 Portable AM FM Shortwave Radio Battery Operated Small Great Reception Radio with Good Sound,Earphone Jack for Elder,Home,Child [Gray]

I wasn't expecting a whole lot from this radio because it was so inexpensive, but I was pleasantly surprised at the reception and loud and clear speaker.I used it recently for 3 and a half days 24 hours a day during the last hurricane, Helene when we were without power for 5 days and the batteries did not even begin to weaken until then.Radio is lightweight, easily portable, tunes in stations well.It picks up well on AM and FM bands and it has Shortwave stations as well.One of the best purchases I have made this storm season.Very good quality and low price.I'm thinking about ordering 2 more, an extra for me and one for my mother.I would not have any idea what was going on around without this radio during the storm and afterwards as the NOAA weather station was off air and I had no cell service for 2 days.

As a long time radio ham, I've owned many phenomenal receivers. The radio isn't one of them. But, for the low cost, this radio is amazing. It's well made, easy to use, and will easily receive shortwave stations from around the globe. The standard medium-wave band reception is very good. From upstate NY I'm able to receive stations from hundreds of miles away with great clarity. The FM band is amazing, with many stations all across the dial. It isn't FM stereo, but even distant stations come in loud & clear. I've been a shortwave listener for over 60 years, and this little radio does a good job pulling in stations from all over the world. While there aren't as many shortwave stations as there were years ago, there is still a lot of activity on the 9 international shortwave bands available on this little radio.It operates for many, many hours on 2 AA-cells, and the telescopic antenna for FM & SW is of very high quality. If you're looking for a versatile, fun little radio for yourself or as a gift, don't hesitate to buy one of these. I enjoy mine on my backyard patio in the evening. As someone mentioned in another review, it's great for a language student to hear actual foreign broadcasts. I can highly recommend this little powerhouse portable radio.

This little radio provides great value for the money. Given its low price point, there's no reason not to buy it.My experience listening in the US Midwest is this: The normal FM reception is is phenomenal. Listening through headphones and especially running a line out from the headphone jack to a quality powered speaker, the sound quality is near perfect. I would compare it to listening to recordings on CD or similar digital format. It finds stations better than my car radio or any other radio I own.AM is a different story. This is supposed to be the US 10 kHz version, but it just doesn't want to dial in as clearly as my 3rd gen GE Super Radio.SW is what I bought it for. I've not tried clipping a wire to the supplied antenna yet, but I will say I'm not blown away. For reference I can receive WRMI from Miami at my home in Iowa, but it's scratchy and just barely there. Maybe that's just the nature of shortwave these days.

The XHDATA D219 is an excellent little radio, which punches way above its weight. I have not used its short wave capacity as of yet, but its FW and AM reception is outstanding. It clearly locks in to local stations as well as distant ones that often drift and are hard to get on some of my other radios. I do not need to use a wire antenna at all. The sound quality from it is very clear and not "tinny"at all. This is now my go to radio and its price can not be beat.

The new XHDATA D-219 radio appears to have the same circuitry of the XHDATA D-328 less the Mp3 playback capability - but it also sells at a lower bargain price.What IS new is the AM and FM sensitivity of this radio - which seems to have been optimized to exceed that of the already excellent D-328, leastwise observed in the radio I have. FM stations are now heard that normally require extending the antenna a bit with the D-328. In AM mode, there is no question that there are more distant stations receivable at night. Lost count in how many stations are received in the SW mode in the evening hours.The 9 khz/10 khz statements made by some reviews are incorrect for this radio. The Silicon Labs chip used in this radio, probably the Si743X, is set for 1 khz steps in the AM and SW modes and 10 khz steps in the FM mode, and a highly stable external master clock is used to run the frequency synthesizer. It is possible to skip more that these prescribed step amounts if the tuning control is turned quickly or the control is not perfectly linear in electrical resistance. Therefore it is sometimes helpful to tune very slowly in the forward direction then in the reverse direction with these type of DSP radios in order to locate an especially weak station at night. The Silicon Labs chip also has an Automatic Frequency Control feature that tends to 'snag' the station if not tuned exactly on it, which sometimes causes odd peculiarities in tuning in a station. There are a lot of false images of stations with these type of radios. So ignore these and ensure you are correctly tuned to the proper and strongest station signal.XHDATA definitely wins the radio golden award by having a tuning control mechanism that has absolutely no slack in it, unlike too many other radios in this price range.The speaker sounds thin as one would expect from this size speaker. However with the proper earphones, good fidelity can be achieved. As is, the earphone audio output of the D-209 sounds a bit bright on the treble end and diminished on the bass end. Choosing an earphone set that has the reverse frequency response is helpful. Hard to find but included with many Tecsun radios, the Tecsun E-302 earphones have this quality, and if using, the resulting audio sounds good and fairly well balanced. However, experiment with what you have.Battery life using alkaline cells seems to be about 100 hours if using only the earphones.The D-219 is possibly the most capable and fun radios one can buy in this price range, and also one of the simplest to use. Easily another winner from XHDATA….

Great little radio. Great reception. Great battery life. Great sound. It's actually loud. I bought it for the pool and when I work on jobs around our house All for $9!It's amazing how loud it is for it's size. I bought a second one. LJA