I bought one of these recently and this week bought an MLA30+ antenna to use with it. The antenna works really nicely but in the process of trying it out, I noticed that if I hold down 3 to disable the internal ferrite rod, even if there is no external antenna connected, the MW and LW reception is massively improved - MW stations from miles away are coming in. It seems to be using the FM whip antenna which makes no sense as you'd expect that to have little effect on AM, but it's definitely improving things! Annoyingly I also seem to get some strong harmonics on LW from some local AM transmitters, I live about 5 miles away from the Asian Network and Radio XL transmitters and they're all over LW on this radio when I use anything other than the internal antenna (which is pretty much near useless for LW).
This is the perfect SHTF radio! Now they are on sale in China, great deals are to be made for this radio. I ordere one and i am looking forward to check this radio out. Thanks for the interesting video!
@@KevinOReillyswl thank you 😁! I found it!! It is the American vs European MW modes, it is actually marked on the coverage of the radio on the back: one is 522-1620 the other covers 520-1700 kHz! I think it is actually 9/10 button you mention.
@@baneverything5580 Thank you. I actually found the answer a few days ago but it didn't seem to improve matters at all - if anything I found more interference. Checked my F/W and that's 3306 too.
@@baneverything5580 You must be on LW or MW band. Long press the 3 key until SW appears at the left on display, under LW or MW. To deactivate, do the same process until SW dissapears. Sometimes, doing this trick and returning to the internal ferrite listening, the radio seems deaf. Go frequency up or down with tuning weel to tune an station to fix it. If this does not work, turn radio OFF and then ON.