Review on 📻 Full Band Hand-held Air Band Radio Receiver with Extended Antenna, Built-in Battery, LCD Display, Alarm, Earphones - AIR FM AM CB SW VHF Digital Travel Radio (Brass) by Gopal Baltimore

I bought this for the original price of about $54 I think. That was a few months ago. It seems much cheaper now. The price was the same as competing offerings, and since most of this company's other products appeared to be a bunch of computer hardware and such, I assumed that this company actually made the thing. I read another review here that said they found the same product under a different label with better instructions, which makes me wonder if my initial hypothesis is correct. When I received this, it seemed to me that a designer's kid from the company came to the factory one day and decided to see what they could do with all the electronic devices lying around. The screen popped out, but we put it back in. The battery is something like 9 volts in a space meant for two AA batteries or something. I'm wondering if the plastic case it's in is actually from some kind of voltmeter or something. The speaker sounds pretty tiny, but it gets the job done when you need to use it. If you can, connect it to almost any other type of speaker. But I thought it worked out pretty well! I'm on the North Shore of Oregon and can pick up stations from Seattle, stations from San Francisco, and even one from Salt Lake City. I've never received aeronautical radio with it, but I haven't tried it at an airport or anywhere else to see if I can get a stronger signal. I can't compare it to other shortwave radios but my area seems to have very poor reception for it. Things usually come and go and the interference is so strong that it is often difficult to understand an incoming signal. However, one night I received a very clear transmission on the radio from Havana, Cuba. It may have more to do with the weather and surrounding mountains than some very cheap receivers. I've found that if you want to improve AM and shortwave reception you pretty much have to use a clamp on a wire antenna or something else if you have one. To make better use of the wire in Tenn, try running it across the ground or hanging it from something higher. It can save presets, but I haven't tested that yet. From what I understand you can delete old presets, unlike some other commonly recommended models. I got this model because it seems like you can tune the frequencies on each band so I might be able to use it in Japan and some other countries with different FM frequency bands, but I haven't tested that yet.