I got Nokia batteries this model That are from 2007-12 That still charge up and not swollen . Not charged in a decade They may not be produced today with quality lithium But back then they are.
I just bought it and got it in the mail today. It's a lot smaller then I expected but it works great. Not a bad sound coming out of that little speaker. I was picking up a lot of stations on the 49, 41 & 31 meter band at night using the extra antenna supplied.
I LOVE the design of it!! The battery is common enough, and I am a huge fan of that spread band tuning barrel design on tuners. (I'm sure I'm describing the analog tuning design wrong here.) But pretty neat! If it had better selectivity, lose the media and bluetooth sections, and extend the HF SW range... that would be a really cool little radio GRENADE! Thanks for reviewing it!!
I think I would add planetary gearbox to ratio tune 10:1 for fine tunning and all bands and media. I would expect there will be preaty hefty radio signalling processor inside. With all these upgrade I would go for ICOM IC-R6E.
A bit spendy for my pocket I recently purchased the big brother to the set, well an AM/FM/BT/TF set but in miniature stereo mini boom box set. I use it in my little electrical lab as a blue tooth speaker for projects as well as remote speakers using the aux for the wifi radios I build as a hobby using ESP32's and VS1053 boards. Lots of great wifi streams, the sets are capable of 300 channels, but I usually settle for 50 covering from 1930 to current as well as some specialized stations that run old time radio seriates. I remember growing up in the 1950's on the old home place in rural North Dakota, on a farm some 26 miles from town. The place was built in 1910 and never modernized to power or running water so we children ran to the windmill to fill the water bucket and the radio had a large multi voltage battery pack that was expensive so our listening was limited to our favorite programs in the evening, and mom's soap operas, as well as the morning show while we prepared for school. Great memories, I believe that is why I developed my imagination well enough to write fiction, a skill I further developed in college.
got mine for $31 (Amazon), and love it so far and worth it ... for being so small it is pretty powerful ... pretty much once you have the Bluetooth streaming as a speaker stronger than your cell phone ... it is being your best friend when BBQ-ing and washing bike or car ... it is a good buy at $31 ...
You forgot the weather band. Also, there is another version called the HRD-701 that does everything the 700 does, but had a digital display, and includes a clock. The tuning uses an encoder, and it remembers what each band was tuned to. If you're listening to WWV you can switch to FM and tune in something like 89.5 FM. When you go back to SW it's still tuned to WWV. I like gadgets, so I have one of each. I like the digital one much more. Oh, and THESE came with a manufacturer name of HanRongDa. Aside from that the 700 is identical to the one you showed. The downfall, aside from the front end selectivity, is that it's easy to accidently turn and not know it. A flat battery is your reward.
That is a darn good deal if the radio also includes Tardis technology! Does the good Doctor know about this development? Something tells me that was likely meant to be a 15.8mm speaker!
Love the trailer. IMSAI 8080 was my first computer exposure. Learned to program assembly and built interface boards to run stepper robots and produce sound effects. Those were the days!
a small handheld entertainment center lol. it'd be cool to have though. Grundig covers a lot more band space then that though, 2800 up to 21995 Khs on Grundig, on that though you only get three quarters ogf that. might be good for emergency use though.
There's a lot of little radios around with this feature set. I bought my mom a little one made to look like an old-timey radio. The military radio style is a new one I think.
It's definately cute with a novelty factor with the US military looks. Not sure if I'd buy it but handy to keep in the glove box in the car for a picnic or if stuck in a bushfire here. Our SHTF broadcast AM radio channel for local emergency news is 666 kHz AM so will work if no cell phone coverage or failure.👍🤓🇦🇺
Might be good for a bugout bag or get me home bag. Seems like a lot of the time news in emergency situations comes over the AM bands. I have a couple MP3 players that have radio but only FM and they don't have a speaker. I also like that it's an MP3 player. Multi functional devices are my jam. Not bad for $45-$50 bucks
i had just gotten this from amazon a few days ago and i love it,,, it sounds realy good for a 2" speaker and the am is decent the flip phone battery is plenty for volume and time i have yet to hear anything on sw but im in bed early so not optimal conditions i paid $ 45 i think which is a little stiff but its a nice little radio , i have a cc pocket and this is on a par with that the knobs are smooth the sensitivity and selectively are quite good and the rechargable (looks askance at c crane) battery is very nice i am quite happy with it and my radio matters to me i listen a lot ,its my main media,,,,, well ok and youtube
A shortwave radio is extremely important as a prep for times of domestic unrest or natural disaster.... as for the star.... grrrr. Vendor might want to consider more destination appropriate back cover artwork for those who are aware
@@tekvax01 well, not realy. this battery has 3 terminals as most of the nokia ones of these days while blackberry had 4 terminals. Also the nokia batterys are very handy as there is a simple but effective internal BMS, i.e. undervoltage shutdown and overcharge protection while i am not sure about the BB batterys...
I wonder if the SD slot player is shuffled or plays in filename order? If there is no setting, these types of players SHOULD default to shuffle, But non I have seen does. Who WANTS to listen to their tunes in alphabetical order? LOL.
IT should not cost much as China makes VHF high end two ways for next to nothing and this is mostly old school . You know what would be an interesting test for uploads ? What available can withstand an EMP Simulate one Maybe do it in a faraday cage so you don’t take anything else out because that’s gonna be numero uno issue when we are at war is China and Russia getting lucky 🍀 As cell and power go down it would be nice to have hope to hear someone talking I assume one of the features is a record button to the SD ? Here’s a tip for any of you portal / spiritualist / occultist out there ( light workers … This is a big secret if you go to the lowest side of AM band around 70-80 hrtz I forget which exactly but you will hear a pulse of white noise This is a signal that transmitted all over and it’s used by special units or anyone in the know who is captive or has no signal out And you want to get a message from your guides ( if you don’t subscribe to that keep going it’s a real Thing ) You can ask life and death questions and get a reply . Without having access to a modified AM FM radio you may use any radio . So this radio can be used for that also . What you are going to need with this radio is a solar charger don’t forget it takes rechargeable battery so lot likely you will easily find that Nokia type Cell to power if in a bind So the great test would be since it’s 5o% old school would it be more likely to survive an Emp ? Did China make it to suffer an attack or survive ? Do they undermine us this way ? Do they even care Are them Batteries holding a chip that goes first Would be a Good upload In fact you can Make a channel testing simulated attacks on radios
Kinda true, but if the proverbial shit ever hits the fan, radios like this will be like gold and full of much needed information. Let's pray that day doesn't come.
If there is it will be quite small and they would likely have a challenge keeping all the digital interference from the radio itself from being picked up (I’m thinking more along the lines of the IIC and SPI clocklines, though even the microcontroller could be clocked low enough to interfere since most of the heavy lifting will be handled locally by dedicated chips, like the MP3/WMA player chip).
