Eric I am glad that you are doing an informercial for this radio. I have one on pre-order. I should be receiving mine pretty soon. I will now know how to operate it. It is really loaded with features for the price. For the current solar storm check out 10 meter, 6 meters 54 mhz, and 2 meters during the day. They should be really active. At night especially late try out 20 - 40 meters. When the radio was first turned on the CW was the UK and Europe's newest Amature band just above the US FM VHF commercial broadcast band. The person was sending CQ CQ.
I'm holding out for the next all band radio to include a coffee maker and a frozen waffle toaster. I need a "complete" field radio package. LOL. Nice Raddy though.... Thanks for the review.
Monitoring 121.5 MHz on the air bad will sometimes hear emergency traffic. Planes are way up there so it works well even in remote locations. Also 245 MHz is used for emergencies by military aircraft. And 123.45 MHz is sometimes used on air band for air to air comms, although not really legal unless it's over the ocean.
A lot of good buzz in the past two months on reviews...expecting my unit soon...I have a Sangean ANT-60 antenna and going to pull in what I can in Ohio on DX...
@@FarpointFarms maybe lineup a few portables and test onboard antennas and a fallow up video with external antenna tested against a cb. My guess is the cb has better filtering in the radio for that band… those portables may be a good way to monitor the CB band while away from your transmitter
I have never picked up long wave in over 25 years of shortwave. I was looking at a Raddy Rf750 and will see if you have a review on that radio before I order it. Thanks.
1977 when I got my driver's license. The Decorah, Iowa Airport still had one going. The aerial antenna was not that big. Maybe 30 feet off the ground with a dozen redials hanging down 20 degree off vertical and a dozen redials level horizonal circling the antenna I had a AOR scanner that dipped low enough to pick it up and about 3 others. That scanner later was able to pickup 900 Mhz AM passenger phone call down links. Maybe for 20 seconds at a shot. But it was fun.
What have you done to me. First off my minds blown by your video of the LC90 so i ordered myself one…now this morning after having this on video a few days ago while my wife is sitting with me reading a book she surprises me today by handing me a wrapped gift which turns out to be this… I’m now going to find a video of Ford GT500 next time she’s sitting with me and have my fingers crossed 😂
Quiero saber dos cosas. 1. ¿Se puede dejar fija la luz de fondo? Al tiempo se apaga todo 2. A parte de usar baterías, ¿hay posibilidad de dejarlo conectado al enchufe sin usas baterías? Gracias y muy buen vídeo.
It looks like a great radio but ... Raddy and other Chinese companies don't get American Radio spectrum like those of us who live here do. For example, CB Radio is AM and FM. UHF Aviation band (225-370 MHz) is actually AM not FM and use by Military Aviation and some Commercial aviation in VHF congested areas. 138-146 MHz should AM and FM as again, 138-144 MHz is designated as Military which is commonly used in AM by aircraft. I just wish Raddy and others would get the spectrum right before pumping the country full of these products we can half use.
great review . lots to hear on SW. the LW CW you got on 153 KHZ is a bacon used in air craft navigation. this is the old system before GPS and used as a back up system . their is 2 HAM bands in LW as well. need a big loop antenna to receive better .Sam with EXT AM loop antenna . yes we got a G5 solar storm. NOAA has warnings out. northern lights seen in NY last night. pic's and video from across the US on face book and you tube. CB messed up with HAM bands . AM aircraft band is used a lot. may just need better antenna and they talk in short times . they quick and scanning mist most of them. 18650 battery is a world wide standard, The time station WWV does broadcast solar weather info . just listen long enough . 2.5 /5/10/15/20/25 MHZ on 24 hours from FT Collins CO. has Mail voice ID. If you hear Femail voice IC that station WWVH Hawaii. great place to start to check how the bands are doing. them time clicks and beep are linked to atomic clock. that the best time we have.
I had a 70 foot twisted copper wire going from the house to the garage out back for a SW antenna when i was a kid in the late 60s and my uncles Halicrafter tube receiver and you touch the dial and another station would come in and the radio traffic was very heavy with hundreds of tranmitters all over the world going 24/7 yet today there is nothing compared ! There are many unlicensed ham radio trancievers awaiting a true disaster and ham radios are only standing by right now !
Hmm , nice reciever . But , I operated radios with bigger frequency spread . 30 to 75 MHz . And I know there are other frequencies that up to the kilohertz range , that aren’t commercial . I’ve been looking for a receiver that does the whole spectrum of electromagnetic spectrum except radar . Can you think of any one that has that kind of thing ? Radio shack used to have a scanner that covered most of the spectrum , and Tandy put blocks on the bands you not allowed to listen to . Like cordless telephone frequencies
Curious how does it compare to the Eton 750 Elite? Two different leagues of radios but im curious if this $300 cheaper raddy keeps up? Keep the shortwave reviews coming!
I’ve had mine for two weeks as of this writing and enjoy it but hate the manual which made mastering it much harder than it should be. Now if the sun would stop sending out CME which interrupt short wave and medium wave (AM) reception..😮! WFM = Wide band FM NBFM = Narrow band FM. 73! Have a great day!
Thanks. I could not figure out the WFM mode. I agree that the learning curve on this radio is a bit steep. I am still figuring out how certain functions work.
Maybe no luck on AM scan because it appeared as if it says NW AM which is narrow bandwidth am generally 2-3 kc wife. It's primarily used for signalling in CW . Not sure but must be Wide bandwidth am option that's closer to 10kc wide
Eric. Do you feel the battery life is far shorter than it ought to be? I bought this radio and really enjoy it, but the batteries seem to discharge a lot sooner than I feel they should. I find myself charging it often. Please let me if you have had the same experience with either of your versions of this radio. Thanks.
hey question had cb radio yrs ago got out of it n recently got back into it looking for a good radio with am fm and lower n upper side bands but not trying to spend 4 or 509 on a radio with good antenna any recommendations?
The tuning knobs look like deal breakers. They need to be mechanically solid and to use optical encoders. Also the sensitivity on SSB does not look good - 20μV compared to 0.20 μV on an IC-705.
Yeah I would like to know how the sound is with music. Been looking for one with a really good sound system, 20 W might do the trick. I have the smaller one with the 5W speaker. It sounds really good but could be a little louder.
can you time set the recording of the radio? Say like if you wanted to listen to your talk show from the day, in the pm or drive to work? THanks in advance. -Brian
@@FarpointFarms Official Radioddity site says the button beep isn’t user definable and is factory set at a low volume. Only way to avoid beeping is to use the limited App which is used.
I live in Eastern Wyoming and usually listen to Chicago AM stations when I drive to work early in the morning. I usually get fair to very good reception. This morning all I had was static. The only Am station I could receive was a local station in my town. I usually get Texas, Nebraska and sometimes California AM stations too. But not today.
@@binsbins1 Earlier last evening I was getting some signals on the 40, 30, and 20 meter HF bands. But 60 and 80 were unusable. By midnight there wasn't much on 40, 30, and 20. I'm in northeastern Pennsylvania.
It's all very well these radios we would love to own if only it was as easy here in the UK as it is in the U S to obtain one over the counter even a basic AM F M set seems difficult for a shopkeeper to demonstrate at one shop I had to suggest putting batteries in only to be handed over to a red faced put out attitude of the shop manager please U S A come to our rescue Tandy..U K was our last Hope and gone it seems for good That is in the U S RadioShake
It does everything, it just doesn't do it very well. You're money would be better spent on a old ham radio. $400 will buy you a jumk Yaesu, ICOM, Kenwood that will do the entire HF band plus 6 meters. No License, just disconnect the microphone and throw it away.
Raddy is essentially selling a shortwave radio with a major DEFECT, what is known as, muted tuning, meaning you cannot hear what is being broadcast on all t he stations as you surf the channels when you tune the radio from frequency to frequency, whether you tune it manually with the fine tuning knob or when you press a button to tune the radio from frequency to frequency. You will see on the frequency meter as you do this a visual display that indicates the frequency strength of each individual through signals represented visually on the signal meter station or channel you surf through. But muted tuning means you will lose the audio momentarily so that the audio level drops off the board, as they say, completely, not allowing you to hear what is being broadcast unless you stop at any given frequency and stay there. Muted tuning can make it possible for you to inadvertently pass over channels or stations you might otherwise prefer to stay on and listen to. That this particular Raddy radio has this muted tuning is not a feature but a design flaw whereby the Raddy company should issue a recall and have their customers send the radios back to Raddy for a fix but Raddy will not do this unless forced to by either the US government or by a court ruling and neither one is likely to happen unless lawsuits are filed against Raddy and they will be forced to answer the lawsuits in open court or agree to an out of court settlement. Raddy has not been responsive enough to address customer concerns about this defect. They offer a quick-fix email link but so far, the half dozen people I've spoken to who have this radio and are stuck with this muted tuning defect have tried to follow Raddy's directions to correct this muted tuning flaw but this quick-fix does not work in actuality. At least not for the six people I spoke to. How many other Raddy customers have gotten similar run-arounds from Raddy, I don't know. But as I said in my prior comment below, Raddy is a company operating from Communist China and are likely owned the Chinese communist government or their military under the business banner they call, Raddy. And so far, from what I have seen of Chinese companies who produce products with defects, they always fail to correct problems or address customer concerns. Once they have your money, they could care less. In China, over the past 40 years, there have been a never-ending number of inferior shortwave radios being produced in China and sold from there. Only a few of them have had any merit. Most of these radios have come and gone because of inferior designs and built-in defects. Let's see what happens with this particular Raddy radio. Let's see if Raddy takes the initiative and accepts the responsibility it should and begin not only fixing these adios but all future models of this particular radio. They need a revised schematic upon which to base refute production of this radio. I personally will not buy this radio unless Raddy corrects the defect and markets all new versions of this radio with the problem of muted tuning eradicated. All such future models of this radio must then be sold with a new model number to reflect the fact the muted tuning defect has been corrected.
What you are talking about is called "chuffing" all digital radios do that. It's normal. These are not analog so rolling the dial actually is changing a digital channel selector. I'm sure they told you that, but in case they didn't, that's what is going on. If you want endless tuning without pause, you'll need an older analog radio, but sadly many don't work well any more due to age.
@@FarpointFarms yeah "anyone" can translate when you missed something that other testers of tha radio apparently found that muting between the steps when tuning on hf.
Always funny to see comments on my channel trashing radios for not having full coverage, or not having SSB, and then I get to see the comments when I finally show one that has all those features and people realize that adding all those things costs a lot of money!