Review on 📻 Kaito KA210 Pocket AM/FM NOAA Weather Radio: Reliable Black Portable Device by Girish Underwood

This is a fantastic little radio. I am very impressed with his performance. I have about 50 radios of all kinds, tube, old transistor, shortwave, modern/digital, you name it. So I know what I'm talking about. This one does the job. It reliably receives with high sensitivity and fixes stations on all bands. On the VHF band, it picks up all the strong stations in urban areas, which other, much more sophisticated radios do with their own little whip antenna, about 8 inches long. Stations are hard to come by, I didn't try them because I don't hear them. No hissing, no hissing, no weak reception when moving. On the AM band I tested in the evenings and the dial was filled with all sorts of stations, local and distant. It can be difficult to know where the radio is tuned on the tiny dial until the radio stations announce themselves. For example, WSM, Nashville, Tennessee, 450 miles away sounded like the neighborhood. Other transmitters from New York, Boston, Chicago about 700 miles away could be heard loud and clear, much better than other much more expensive receivers. I'm not sure how it can work so well with this supposedly tiny ferrite antenna. (didn't take it apart to look inside). The radio is the size of a pack of cigarettes. The NOAA band, bonus, two NOAA channels were heard loud and clear, better than the "Crystal Controlled" Radioshack dedicated to NOAA radio. The sound quality was decent for a small speaker size (about 2 inches in diameter). It doesn't sound tiny at all. Much better sound quality comes from the headphone jack, making listening a pleasure. From the way it tunes in stations I get the impression it's a DSP radio, although it's not advertised as such. It snaps stations and jumps to the next without much interference between them like FM AFC works with old analog radios. The DSP forces all stations above a certain threshold to be heard at the same strength, which is good for the most part, but makes them difficult to identify from the tiny dial. This explains the exceptional performance of this radio for its size and price ($20). There is no drift when tuning into stations. The only downside I have is the tiny dial that I mentioned above. But what do you expect from an analog radio the size of a cigarette pack in this price range? It is meant to be an emergency and fun/gadget radio to take with you wherever you go, hiking, biking, walking and enjoying life. And you can have weather alerts at your fingertips. Highly recommended.