I got the Tecsun branded S2000 about three weeks ago. I’ve had incredible results with the built-in whip, a longwire, and an MLA-30+. I really enjoy DXing with it. I’ve been running it with batteries to reduce potential noise and they last forever in this thing.

Thanks for the demo. I just bought one ($500 new from Hammacher Schlemmer) and look forward to listening to ham and international aircraft.

I have one of these and love it, but I love my mint Kenwood R-5000 even more.

Great radio, very familiar as a Grundig previously, as others have mentioned. 91.5 MHz FM would give you something different in the UK or at least in South Yorkshire, that frequency we receive BBC Radio 3 (the arts, classical music network) LW in Europe is almost coming to an end. RTE Radio 1 (Ireland) on 252kHz closed sometime last year and BBC Radio 4 on Long Wave 198kHz is to close in March 2024. The end of an era, as the frequency for BBC on LW has been around since the 1930s! Also the BBC on LW was instrumental in WWII, for sending messages to our Allies across Europe. Before Radio 4, it carried BBC Radio 2 (our MoR network) among others.

Warning: The 6v DC power supply requires a non-standard Center Pin Negative Polarity. If you utilize a Positive Center Pin Polarity power supply by accident it'll be toast as the board lacks reverse polarity protection. Nice set though Eric, despite the critics. I own two myself. Very much enjoy your content.📻

I have had one for a few years and agree that this is overall a really good shortwave receiver, is quite sensitive, and audio is really clear and loud. I have it currently hooked to my scanner antenna (certainly not tuned for the HF bands) and receive even in the tight valley where I live; it works surprisingly well for both SW and FM. A few complaints, one, I am not a fan of lightweight plastic for base units - maybe showing my age, but I like heft and durability. VFO knob, as much as I use it, I wish it had a much better control and knob. But my biggest complaint, and I have yet to open it up and to implement a solution - if using external power and there is a power outage, it does not fall back to battery power for time and alarm retention. Once internal capacitors discharge, clocks are lost. I do not use memory features so I do not know if that is lost on power loss with the plug in. Power outages are a frequent part of life where I am in Western NC mountains. The loss of clock is irritating, but certainly not a deterrent for purchase. One caution, the power plug is 6V and is reverse polarity from 99% of everything else on the market. I have mine on a 12 bus powering other gear, but use an inexpensive 12v-6v DC-DC converter for this receiver. I was relieved when I double checked polarity markings on the connector when assembling. Thanks for all you do!

Excellent radio, I bought one in 2012, with an external antenna, the reception is excellent.

I bought one of these around 8 years ago. They have doubled in price since then..Mine says Grundig Satellit 750 on the case...its a beast

I've had the Tecsun S-2000 version (same radio, different branding I gather) for a couple of years. A really great, comprehensive allrounder that is very hard to fault IMHO. And despite comments, I'd suggest the retail price is actually very reasonable. Would thoroughly recommend it as a "one stop shop" radio receiver for the semi-serious enthusiast and a handy backup/"quick look-see radio receiver" for the dedicated enthusiast with a selection of Icom/Yaesu/Kenwood etc etc...

I’ve always wondered about this radio, now you’ve sold me! Great video!!!

Thank you for taking the time to make and post this excellent review on the *Eton Elite 750 Shortwave Radio* ...

I have one a few months, mine works great across all the ham bands. I have it wired up to a 10’ brass curtain rod above my desk an it has very good overall ears with that in all bands. The slightly wobbly dial is the only clinker on there, but it works fine. Good filter too.

After finding your channel a while back I became interested in all things radio! I was able to locate an Eaton 750 still in the box, from a private seller and picked it up for $200. Not as good of a deal as yours but I didn’t think I did too bad. I haven’t had much time to fool with it but hopefully I will be able to soon. (my youngest is a senior in high school) Keep the great videos coming!!!

Thank you for your review, refreshing to hear a positive review for a change on a great radio.

You got that incredible unit at a superb price. Thank you for preparing and sharing the video.

I have 2 short wave radios for a direct comparison: 1.) The Tescun S-2000 (Eton 750) with an Tescun An-48x antenna below the roof top and 2.) the Tescun PL-990x with an Tescun AN-03L antenna in my living room. The S-2000 is a very nice and stylish radio with a very good sound but imo the PL-990x is the better shortwave and ultra short wave (in English: FM) receiver. The problem I have with the S-2000 is that I have sometimes a brilliant reception and hours late its poor with lots of noise and other side effects. My be its an antenna problem. I'm still learning. In the end I love it too. By the way: Operating/Tuning the S-2000 helped me to understand the PL-990x better.

I have the Satalit 750 by Grundig. It is truly a fantastic radio. I have hooked it up to a 70 ft external wire antenna that is strung up a tree. Not as good reception as some of my ham radios, but way more bands of frequencies available. Great review BTW.

Recently found your channel and enjoying the radio videos had a CB in the 70’s and and now I’m getting interested in short wave will have to get something less expensive to start with keep the videos coming

What an amazing radio. Now I want it more than ever. I will keep searching for a used one. Because its so expensive

Better shortwave reception than my Yaesu 5000. Very impressive. Been looking at one of these as a pure receiver for a long time, I might just go for it. If I can find a deal like yours especially.

I bought a used Grundig Satellit 800 off of Ebay years ago and still have it. The radio is excellent too but even used is was higher priced verses the Eton Elite 750. The radio did not come with a power supply block and I did find one but the power supply block is noisy on SW and a linear power supply would need to be used with the Grundig Satellit 800 radio. Finding the original power supply is hard to find and that's the only drawback to that radio.

I broke down and ordered one. Tiny discount for black Friday for $360. It should be here today. I can't wait.

I have 2 of the Grundig versions. Exact the same radio. I love them!

I got mine, the Grundig version, back in 2009. It was on Amazon for $249 and a Lightning Deal popped up for $149 and I grabbed mine NIB. Sits above my workbench and has a carefully placed external long wire that runs outside. Works great on all bands, and I listen to SW and AIR most of the time.

Great radio, I don't care what 1 particular KZfaq channel says.

Great buy Eric, I have always wanted one. But am really enjoying my Software Defined Radio and using a remote connection I can listen to it on my laptop anywhere in the house!

I had to get rid of my 4'led light from all the static it created on my SW/CB radio. Love it!

If you push and hold the 0 key, it turns the beep on and off... I have the Grundig version, got it in 2011, great radio...

The reason you didn't get nothing on airbend you had it on Long wave I also have that radio I've had it a couple years now I enjoy it

Love this radio. Use it with a long wire or a PKLoop. Lot of money but you get a lot of radio. Have the Tecsun S2000 version. Same radio different brand name. Spent many an hour tuning this beauty. Nice video too.😊😊😊

Good feature for the am broadcast band, being able to rotate the antenna instead of the hole radio to improve reception.

Nice radio and nice Amber illumination

This radio is also known as Tecsun S-2000. 👍

These are great radios - I have the Grundig version. Just need more SW broadcasters! RUGER

I got my Satellit 800 at Radio Shack in the early 2000's for a 100 bucks . It was a display model with no box and they threw in auniversal power supply because the original was lost

I picked up the original Grundig 750 for an astounding $20 at a yard sale! No way I would pay what is being charged for a new one. If you want an excellent quality receiver find a Drake R8 or R8b. Then you will have the best that leaves the rest in static! Btw, the switch on the side selects either internal rod antenna or the external inputs.

Thanks for the video. It certainly looks like you got a steal on that radio. I know you will have a blast with that one. I just got a Tecsun pl 680 yesterday.

I have the grundig satellit 750, the original version. It's 6 years old, performs perfectly. It's reciever is as good as my yaesu ft101

Ty for your review, demonstration. Have to get one, off grid living.

Thanks for your very informative video on the Eton Elite 750 (mine is a Tecsun S-2000). I was hoping to find info on using the SSB feature.

Thanks for reviewing this...been curious about this radio's quality. You definitely got a great bargain there!

Yeah, that unit has always been on my wish list. Price is a bit too rich for my pocketbook. Glad you got a good deal on one. 👍

Good demonstration. Looks like nice quality set made in the old way of a good portable am shortwave set. like in the tradition of old Zeniths and Hallicrafters . looks like those expensive Sonys they use to make too Decent portable AM and short wave set. Looks nice. Thank you for demonstration .. Anthony ham radio ve4akf

I have this radio (with Tecsun S-2000 brand) and use it with 4 D-batteries which work for ages.

Thank you so much for picking up the radio. I was wondering about this receiver.

I have the exact radio, but it's a Grundig Satelit 750, it was my Dad's. After he passed away I've been getting his junk mail, I believe he got from Hammaker Schlemmer (spelling?). They showed it at $600, and I can't get anything but static except on AM & FM with it.

I had the Eton E1 years back and just couldn't handle the ripping paper overtone to it. Been on the look out for a Satalit 750 or Elite 750 for the right price. I'll have to do the saved search as you did. Something is bound to come up for a good price.

Fantastic radio receiver, if you don’t want/need transmit capability, this is the way to go! Hook up that loop antenna you have and the clarity will blow your mind.

I have had this radio for a year ,it is awesome.....

This is a OK. Radio being a old ham guy a couple of buds bought them and found the band spread a bit wide and both had a wobbly tuning knob . For the cost you can for a bit more new get. Icom Kenwood or a Grundig which are both much better receivers .

very nice radio think they started off as a grundig s wave radio i have the stalite 800. grundig which had prtenered up with drake that used to make ham radio gear. then you strated to see etons which look similar. but fun radios to play with but that model has more bells an whistles

I miss my Sat 750 - someone stole it while we were camping several years ago - hope they enjoy it as much as I did.

I actually just bought this radio after seeing you using it.

THE EATON IS PART OF MY RADIO ROOM DREAM. A EATON, A RADIO SHACK PRO 400 SCANNER ALL CONNECTED TO A DISCONE ANTENNA.

You need to set up a long wire antenna or better yet an outdoor PA0RDT active antenna for to receive LW better than what you're getting on there.

LW is Long Wave, which was only ever used in Europe and South America as far as I know. 100 - 500 khz, while AM / Medium Wave is 500 - 1700 khz. Air band is VHF, 120 - 130 mhz or so (just above the FM broadcast band, but is actually AM). Since it's vhf it's line of sight, so you won't hear much unless you are near an airport. If you get lucky you'll hear some planes calling in overhead but that'll be a few seconds of transmission.

Nice radio at a great price!As always thanks for the video,Erik.

When I should buy a radio it should be the TECSUN S-2000 It has a 455 kHz ZF-output which can be used for ex. as DRM-converter. And what I am missing is an ETM/ATM function. That is also not available on the Tecsun S-2000, but is available on cheaper Tecsun's

These radios do feel cheap and plasticky until you put in the D cells, then they get quite heavy. They do receive very well though and I like that all the bands have inputs for external antennas even the medium wave BCB. What I don't like about it is the lack of a fine tuning control that makes it hard to tune in SSB on shortwave.

I fried mine a few weeks ago by using wrong polarity AC supply. Apparently many folks did this stupid thing . A few videos about it on YT. . Loved the ergonomics, but not a great performer . Only radio I ever loved was my AOR 1000.

Yeah,you lucked out for $100!! 😏 Looked on Amazon last night, 😮 $500.

Great radio. Eric. I used it for transatlantic flight comms here in southern Maryland

Nice radio. I had my DX 160 on last night for a while. I’m still learning how to use it.

i have a 102 ft inverted v on mine, made it come alive !

I might get me one of these.. looks like it would be some night fun for a 70 year old insomniac

The empty box contained the mains power lead on the Asian variants, they had an internal power supply

great review man! new sub here ;) ham radio technician but also a vintrage gaming lover ;) appreciate it

not a fair test put on a long wire let’s hear what its got

One of mine says Eton and my older one says Grundig there are some Tecsun 2000 you can still find

Well first of all, given everything that's now happening, people's highest priority is to buy or if necessary build a top of the line TUBE type radio. People should be spending thier money on a working or repairable R-390, R-392, R-388 or a Hammerlund Super Pro 600 or a National HRO 50 or Sixty Second choices would be other Hammerlund's especially the 180 or 180 JX, or Certian Hallicrafters can be OK If you're looking for a solid state radio a lot of recent military super radios are available Like discontinued Collins, Harris, Raytheon etc There are a group of British And European military grade receivers and transmitters both tube and ruggedized solid state.

I have this radio and am pleased with it. The only downside is that the air band doesn’t have auto search.

If anyone thinks this radio is alittle to expensive the Eton Elite Executive Satellite Radio is alot cheaper and has pretty much the same performance plus some extras that this does not have !

Somebody said that the narrow filter is too narrow and wide is too wide without a compromise. Does the telescopic antenna rotate to receive horizontal polarization on USW? Strange that they went for an expensive, disposable D-cell battery while other Tecsun radios have a lithium battery. Why do no radios, even the more "serious" ones go above 30 MHz?

Thats a great radio..i want one..lol

A good radio but it has short comings. The wide and narrow bandwidth positions are not the greatest. Too wide is the worst thing. I don't care for the AGC action either. For best AGC action riding the RF gain and volume is required. The reception of SSB using the BFO could be better. Why not a dedicated USB/LSB switch position? And while they were at it why not add a CW position and filter? The nice points are the overall styling and size. So much handier then the Grundig/Eton/Tecsun 800. The metal knobs are great and I liked the rotatable AM antenna. The display and backlight are very nice. All in all a good radio but I don't think it's value is in the 400-500 dollar range.

Farpoint farms you should set the clock to utc for shortwave

Tecsun S-2000 appears to be the same radio.

Thank you ! RWB

I have this radio and it has a lot of great features and nice capabilities. In the short-wave mode, it does have its issues and some of those issues are pretty serious and certainly play a major role it the receiver's overall cost. In Canada this receiver sells for $600.00. This is way too much, especially with its shortwave flaws. If you can pick up the receiver for $250 Canadian, you're doing OK. It's certainly not a bad receiver, it just not that great in the short-wave mode. It works poorly when trying to pick up channels squeezed in between other channels and weaker channels compared to other much cheaper receivers and that's not acceptable for radios of this price. It certainly does have curb appeal. and works great in air band, MW, FM. but loses performance under MW mode at 300 KHZ without and antenna. Attractive but way over price. I still love it because it looks great but be aware before putting out big bucks for this thing.

I would love to get one of these!!

I might buy a used one today for $200.

This radio does not have air band.You were tuning longwave which is used in europe and elsewhere for broadcast instead of our medium wave AM. Air band is about 119-136 mhz which this radio does not tune. Longwave is used over here mostly for beacons for airport in CW mode.

Best radio I have ever owned is the Drake SW8.Goes from 100 hertz to 30 Megahertz.Also has air band.

I have one radio like that and the bateríes working over a year

I am a.complete and total novice but I am so intrigued. I see SW radios with SSB on Ebay that say "aircraft radio". What's the difference?

Is there a difference between the Eton Elite 750 vs Tecsun S2000? Thanks. I see on line the Tecsun generally goes for $100+ more

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Super cool!

That is an awesome rig without a doubt!😏👍

Hi ,great review. I’m thinking about buying this radio. I have very little experience with radios so I have a couple questions about the connectors for the external wire. Do you need the ground wire hooked up all the time or just when your using the sw wire. And what kind of plug goes in the lw/mw directional antenna ?

Holy crap that’s clear audio

very nice.

Looks like a solid machine.

Is the long wave air band in the states used the same as in OZ for NDB radio compass usually has morse ident of location A lot have closed here now i assume the rely on GPS now days We had one just out of town 257kh indent RUG01 dismantled now but 2 nice towers still on the hill The perfect radio shack 🤔😊

I’m trying to figure out how to do the ground wire, can not figure a clean way to run both wires out of the house and one going to the ground and another up in the air somewhere, haven’t found a video about that yet.

Why do I get the feeling that this radio has a very tiny circuit board that does it all.

My Eton Elite 750 has never worked. I am sure that it is my fault, I just can't figure out how to get the volume to work. Any ideas? I watched every You Tube video that I could find. Everything seems to work properly, just no Volume.

It needs a rechargeable battery mod done.

who was to know-YOU for sure/how far have you talked/boogie woogie/and have a cold glass of ice tea/fun-fun-fun/thanks much

If you ever decided to sell the radio let me know lol Great radio