D-808 Professional Portable Radio | FM Stereo/SW/MW/LW/Air Band Coverage with SSB RDS | High Sensitivity, External Antenna 2000mAh Rechargeable Battery | Dual Alarm Clock, Sleep Timer & Squelch

Wow! This little radio is unbelievable, packed with so many different features. It's very sensitive and picks up many stations on Short Wave, even with the attached whip antenna! The video attached was taken at midnight here in the U.K during an alleged solar storm with some sensationalist social media folk claiming global radio blackouts! If that's true then this lovely radio has exceptional reception! The radio arrived in excellent packaging, very secure and had a long journey arriving with no damage, in the box you get the radio, a comprehensive user manual in a variety of languages, the English is correct and easily navigated. The radio is of a very high quality, a little bit larger than the D-368 and not much heavier. The buttons are easy to operate and are well labelled, the scroll wheels have no wobble, switching between bands is simple and the display is bright and clear. MW has minimal activity...that's not the radio fault! LW is also very quiet. SW is a hive of activity in the evening, it's very therapeutic listening in to the world! Once you have a basic understanding of radio receiving you can then start to delve into the technicalities of this little powerhouse! Change bandwidth, explore the SSB, squelch, fine tuning...it's got it all! FM is very, very good! RDS on the frequency if the station is transmitting the info, the inbuilt speaker is astounding for it's size, a rich stereo sound through headphones, battery life is also excellent! I really love this radio, the only downside (not a negative) is as with all DSP radios...the soft muting, if you definitely don't want that then I highly recommend the D-368 for smooth tuning. XHDATA are an excellent company and I've had contact with their customer service who do reply quickly and are very polite, eager to help and offer excellent support. In summary....high quality radio, beautiful FM sounds, highly sensitive SW (for me anyway), no issues at all and I highly recommend this radio. It is quality!

This a remarkably good little radio. It has both excellent sensitivity and selectivity, which are, IMHO, the two most important attributes of any receiver. Although the short wave bands are much less used than a few years ago I have been pleasantly surprised by how much I can pick up, using either the whip antenna or a short long wire. There appears to be very little overloading. I have a 50kW medium wave transmitter (Radio 5 Live 909kHz) about five miles away and there are no spurious signals from this, apart from a very tiny second harmonic. Looking at photos of the inside, it appears that there are some LC filters fitted to the front end and it does not just rely on electronic signal processing, which improves the performance very considerably over the low cost DSP radios. You can manually select six different audio bandwidths. MW is very sensitive with very good adjacent channel rejection. Caroline 648kHz comes in quite well, although I am outside the reception area and suffer considerable co-channel interference. You can select 9 or 10KHz channel increments or tune in 1 Khz steps. I can get both R4 198KHz and RTE 1 on 252KHz LW although reception is adequate, rather than excellent, on LW. LW and MW reception would undoubtedly be improved with the use of an external loop antenna. There is an external antenna socket using a 3.5mm audio plug, and a mini long wire aerial with plug is included, which is actually quite effective on both SW and VHF. FM reception is very sensitive on the whip aerial. You can receive stereo FM on headphones. There is an RDS station display. Air Band reception is also excellent; many aircraft and airport transmissions are audible, with the additional bonus of a programmable squelch control. However, it does not automatically scan between stations, so you can only listen to one at a time. SW is remarkably good. I have been surprised by the number of stations I can receive, especially trans-Atlantic aircraft communications on SSB. You can fine-tune the BFO for SSB reception. It is not clear what units this is calibrated in, although generally I have found that you can get clear SSB reception on the zero fine-tune setting so frequency calibration appears to be spot-on. Audio is crisp and clean and quite loud for such a small set. The radio has very wide frequency coverage from 150-450 KHz, 520 Khz- 29.999 MHz, 64-108 MHz FM and as an additional feature, Air Band 118-137MHz AM. Not many of the current generation of DSP receivers have such wide coverage, as several only start their SW coverage from 2.3MHz. It comes complete with a rechargeable Li Fe battery. Don’t forget to remove the little tab insulator before use! Battery life and operation appears similar to a mobile phone, with the additional and welcome bonus of using a standard smart phone charger and socket so you won’t need an additional charger if you are travelling. However, you may find that there will be additional noise if you use the radio whilst charging. The display is very clear, a nice pale blue background with a clock and alarm. You can select the backlight to stay on all the time, if required. Rather annoyingly, the display reverts to displaying temperature when you switch off. It also has a signal meter, although the meaning of the calibration of this is somewhat of a mystery. The overall design and quality of the case is pleasingly understated and it will fit in a large pocket so it is easy to take with you when you travel. You have various options when tuning; there is a rotary knob with soft click which feels quite nice, rather like a traditional flywheel tuner. You can select slow (1Khz) or fast (5KHz) steps or lock the tuning. There are also push buttons for up/down tuning if you prefer, or you can select from the memories. It will take some time to get to know all the features. The instructions are concise, rather that comprehensive, although written in quite good English. The main drawback is that it is fiddly to store and retrieve frequencies. There is a feature called PAGE which requires three keystrokes to store or retrieve stations, and this is a bit tiresome. You cannot just flip between memory positions. But apart from these minor quibbles, this is overall a really excellent set and it is obvious that there has been a lot of thought put into the design and production. I think that the performance compares very favourably with the competition, and for the price it is really good value. So whilst it may not be quite up to full communication receiver specifications it comes very close, especially given the compact size. You are unlikely to be disappointed.

This is a good quality receiver that does what it says on the box. Not cheap, but worth the money. All bands work well and unit is sensitive, but not driven to distortion. Positive points..... All.... Bad points... The only negative points is that it could be a little larger and the manual needs a magnifying glass to read it... But do read the manual.. If you want to listen to shortwave, amateurs and aircraft, this is great for indoor use, unlike my Yaesu.. NOTE... I have not received anything for this recommendation. Addendum.... Still pleased and the air and is sensitive.... Biggest problem so far encountered.... Using the memory... Not intuitive... Further update.. Is it possible to turn the alarm off? Normally a short push stops the alarm and a long push cancels the alarm on all clocks.. Nope.... No matter what I do, it just keeps turning itself back on! There is nothing in the manual about it either and just to prove the point, my wife has tried and failed... This is not good design and totally unnecessary. Eventually, we found by trial and error that the AL symbol doesn't mean the alarm is on or off, there is a minute sign that I cannot even see with reading glasses on.... So much for sight impaired people..

This radio is amazing. The amount of features included in such a small package is astounding. I bought this as a DSP alternative to an analog Tecsun so I can listen to specific shortwave shows and am blown away by quality. I've seen a lot of reviews complaining about weaker stations being too quiet but this is most likely due to the bandwidth being set correctly. I find opening the bandwidth to max until I find a station I like solves that problem. No need to filter a station until you've found it. The ability to key in frequencies is a welcome addition as rolling an analog dial can get tiring after a while. The SSB is great and I've spent several nights tuning into Ham radio conversation and am very impressed with the level of reception. The battery life is equally as impressive. After one charge, I've run this radio regularly in the day and throughout the night for 3 days and it's still going. My only caveat would be the slightly non standard battery but these are readily available online as are mobile phone batteries so it's a non-issue really. If you have an interest in shortwave, radio or even air traffic control listening, this is an excellent radio which serves all in a uniquely small form factor. Similarly, if you're looking for a decent, small FM/AM radio for listening in a workshop or home, this radio provides fantastic sound quality and features for a very reasonable price.

I was looking for a portable radio I could use to (besides regular FM stuff) listen air bands and a couple of domestic radio stations on MW I can use at home and outside of home. Some SW optionally. I did a comprehensive research of options under €100, including web articles, lots of youtube reviews and found that this one and Radiwow R108D fit my needs. I gave the XHDATA a try and was positively surprised with what I've got for this price. What I like in this radio: - the overall quality. Doesn't look cheap. - perfect quality on FM. - RDS on FM (though I don't care about RDS at all). - air band reception is acceptable and isn't worse than LiveATC streams. - Squelch for air band (squelch isn't available in other bands, it is air only). It may slightly reduce the quality, but not much and it does what it should: stays silent when there is no transmission. - battery capacity. Worked for almost a week (listening around 4hrs a day) without recharging. I have a range of tools that use 18650 batteries, so replacement (if necessary) isn't a problem for me. Some people like standard batteries you can buy everywhere, I'm fine with 18650. Micro USB charger port is convenient. Keep in mind that charger isn't included in package, only short cord. - decent speaker sound for portable radio. I get a good FM stereo in headset. - SSB in SW. I'm not a huge fan of SW, but there are several stations that use SSB (either, USB or LSB) - fine tuning is a big deal, especially in SW/MW. - built-in telescopic antenna is large enough for portable radio. The package includes external (3.5mm jack, 2m long) antenna, but it make a difference (over telescopic) in SW only. - memory size: it has a lot of space to save stations in every band. What is not perfect (may be biased or is my own problem): - quite average reception quality in MW (I'm listening a couple of stations in MW). External antenna doesn't help much and it really depends on where I am in my apartments. - user manual is very short, however it was sufficient to me to find and use features I needed. The manual requires some background radio usage knowledge which may not be suitable for very beginners. Bottom line: I think this radio is one of the best on portable "under €100" radio market. It provides plenty of functions which you may not find in most of non-portable radios. In overall it exceeded my expectations. It does everything what I need and even more.

I'm analogue. I grew up with big radios with clear displays, big knobs and smooth mechanical tuning, so I've never fallen in love with these little plastic push button receivers. Having said that I can't put a big old radio in my pocket. This radio is small, light and functional. The sound quality is adequate but not great. There is no tone control. Sensitivity is fine for strong stations but it needs an external aerial for weaker signals. The air band doesn't seem to work very well though. As for durability, only time will tell. If it dies I'll edit this review and let you know.

Having read several reviews of this radio on the internet I had reasonable expectations from what is a very reasonably priced receiver £69 currently from Amazon. I am a licensed radio amateur and have "too many" radios according to my wife. Mediumwave coverage is excellent and the various band width filters help to cut down on interference from strong nearby stations. I compared reception of Manx Radio with that of the Eton E5 and found them very close but with the Eton losing out on selectivity. One review I read speaks of the agc being too fast on ssb thus the first half second of a message was lost, but on my radio this problem was not there so maybe the firmware has been improved upon. This radio's sensitivity on airband is remarkable and with a decent squelch control which, if properly adjusted, really works. Most of my listening on the radio has been done on the telescopic antenna and I spent a couple of happy hours listening to 160m Ham band and found the radio to be incredibly sensitive. I am delighted with this little radio and with it's rechargable battery included it is hard to see how they can produce such a quality item for such a decent price. Tuning across the bands does result in a noticeable muting (chuffing) sound but this is a minor point and doesn't detract from it's performance once you get used to how it works. Memory entry is a breeze and one of the easiest I have come across with 10 memories per page. Press and hold to enter a memory on your desired key number and press quickly to recall the memory. Press page and your desired page number on the keypad and then you have another 10 memories to fill using the above-mentioned method. All in all you won't find anything comparable in it's price bracket and, as a bonus, it will fit into most jacket pockets.

Great radio -covers SW MW LW and FM. To be used mainly in "emergency". I found it could be fully charged from a wind up torch/battery. Instructions are sometimes a little difficult to understand -took me ages to set the time manually until I googled. Sound quality for a small radio is very good, and meets all expectations.