My friend Randall let me borrow his Grundig M 400. It's the size of a cigarette pack and is very slim. It has three bands and alarm clock radio. It is a simple digital receiver with few buttons good contrast LCD, lock and tuning knob.
With tiny speaker, the M400 still has reasonable bright sound for FM (stereo). With small telescopic antenna, the radio was able to pick up FM signal with reasonable sound quality and sensitivity. AM is not so sensitive but in the evening I have received few stations faraway like 810 KGO San- Francisco, 580 KIDO Idaho, 620 KPOJ Portland, 710 KIRO Seattle.
I have compared Short Waves with Sony ICF-SW11 (made in Japan). Sony has bigger size and is twice as expensive plus it is analog. Grundig has good sensitivity and received same stations as Sony but the Grundig suffers much more noise. Portability is a one of strong benefits of this radio.
Those hets are ear-splitting. That one isn't for me unless it has a narrow filter width you can switch to.
Posted by: Terry, the Old Fusser | October 12, 2009 at 07:50 AM
Sound is matter. I agreed.
Posted by: Val | October 12, 2009 at 09:43 AM
The video was a good idea, but why 10 minutes of just scanning the AM (MW) band? A demo of FM and SW would have provided us with a better overall look at the radio's capability (although SW reception is highly dependent on time of day).
Secondly, the AM scan appeared to show most stations as 1 KHz off, e.g., 791 vice 790. Was that operator problem or does the radio actually not zero in correctly?
Posted by: Hank | May 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM