Review on 📻 Tecsun R9700DX: Advanced 12-Band Dual Conversion AM/FM Shortwave Radio for Exceptional Listening Experience by Bart Elbrink

I have had this radio for 3 years now. I've been an avid SW listener for 30 years. I'm not a radio amateur, but I was a MURS and Hurricane NET operator in the military, so I know a bit about HF. I'm not going to compare this to ICOM or Drake Ham Rig. I will review its merits over other consumer receivers. I own or own Sangean 803A, 818, Grundig S750, S350, DEGEN 1102, 1103, WRX911. Firstly, if you want to hear service signals, skip this as its SW segments only cover the SW broadcast bands except for 120, 90 and 11 meters. However, it covers most of them. One of the best portable SW radios to take with you on the go, in my opinion. This is the reason I bought it. Management is very easy. It's like a beautiful dial that illuminates the dial. It turns off automatically after 20 seconds, but has a switch that bypasses this and allows you to leave it on the whole time. It has a music message switch and an external ant jack, as well as a local DX switch that is an attenuator in the local position. These are the whip's pads as well as the attached outer ant. It has a good speaker, which is surprising at first as it lacks the tinny, tiring sound that most portables of this size have. It has a fuller, richer sound. The radio uses 4 AA batteries and appears to last 4 years due to the poor analogue circuitry of this radio. The volume is a slide switch and the setting is the thumb wheel on the right side of the radio. Batteries can presumably be charged in the radio and the supplied 4Nm batteries charge slowly, although this is not specified in the manual or on the packaging. I only take the radio with me when I travel, except when I take it out to compare to other radios. FM on this radio is excellent and stereo through headphones is excellent, especially if you're using high-end headphones. FM selectivity and sensitivity are simply outstanding. The AM portion of this radio is where people are missing it, or so it seems. AM selectivity is good, but sensitivity is mediocre. It's not a lost cause though, because like many new SW portable radios that don't have enough room for a large proper AM antenna, you can place a 200mw AN100 loop antenna alongside it and the AM band will come along signals animated. seems to jump from the noise level. I have never owned a portable SW receiver with an AM section of this type of AM loop antenna like the R9700DX. While packing an AN200 isn't part of the travel recipe, if you have this in your office, study or kitchen table with an AN200 loop antenna, this is an AM performer. Selectivity and SW sensitivity are excellent. It listens to signals from any other portable computer like the R9700DX. The supplied long cable should be able to input the signal if it is sufficient for input. If you prefer to use a long cable as it reduces noise significantly. With stronger signals I just use it in the LOCAL position and the pad tames any overdrive. A coiled long wire is the perfect travel companion. I have a long cable and a multi-band long cable in the attic that I connect my S750 and 803A to and with the DX/LOCAL switch in the local position this radio will pick up any signal, pick up any signal that others can As long as it is on the adjustment drive with no overload and ultra-low noise. This radio doesn't have the synth hiss that a PLL radio does, even though it's double conversion. I've read reviews on this radio where people try to get the tuning wheel to tune the signal. Do not do that! This will break him. I can't set it up, it can't be set up. This radio range is relative in the sense that with an AC adapter, alkaline batteries, or rechargeable batteries connected to its analog circuitry, the drive will settle into slightly different positions depending on the different DC levels supplied to its analog circuitry . Alkaline batteries AA 1.5V DC vs. 1.2V DC Nimh AA. With that in mind, the radio takes around 10-15 minutes for the internal components to stabilize, but it does take a little nudge every now and then to reach the peak setting, which is a far cry from what the S350 requires. If you're my age and remember the sound that came from older high-end stereo receivers, that radio receiver sound has the same cleaner sound as the digitally pre-processed sound. My ears can tell the difference. It's a radio (or other portable SW device) connected to a decent attic antenna and headphone/line audio streaming through a decent set of bookshelves or computer speakers. They have a very decent SW BCB analog listening station that makes the S350 green. with envy. The AN200 MW antenna completes it. This is a great BCB radio and I salute the engineers who created it. This is one of the best street radios designed for those who don't need to receive service signals. He also has a very, very good suitcase. Its analog setting is ideal for scanning bands in a new area you might be visiting or staying overnight. I highly recommend this radio. I won't give it up because it doesn't have SSB and other things it doesn't. You buy him for what he is supposed to do and that he does it very well. This radio is a sentinel. If Tecsun reads these reviews it would be nice to see that an 803A size radio, analog tuner and dial that is fine tuned to the depth/sound quality of the S350 speaker at 120/90 and 11 meters using this technology , who would be winners. I don't think SW will die and I don't think it will rise again in the future. A portable radio without noisy DSP and sound quality would be nice. I hope they have engineers that developed this that work with other projects.