Hi John. thanks for getting in touch & hope it proved useful. It was a little difficult to demonstrate its full shortwave capability due to the limit storage available and to try and manually tune through all 7 bands would have taken forever. However, I have found it to be very good on SW, more than I was able to demonstrate.

@@TheWobblyCameraGuy thanks...

Hi, always good to hear from you and thank you for your kind words. TBH, either a thumbwheel or pushbuttons increment in the same frequency steps, (it's not analogue tuning, unfortunately) so as you say it's just down to personal preference. Its performance on the shortwaves was better than I was initially expecting, so it actually turned out to be a decent little receiver for very not much money. Thanks again TWCG.

Hi Jeff, thanks for your feedback and for subscribing to my channel, you have made my day! New true analogue radios seem to be quite a rare beast these days, the majority being the DSP variety. However, they are good fun and if you shop around, there are some bargains to be had out there. Prunus have their own website (www.prunustech.com/) and is worth a look to see what is available. Thanks again TWCG

Hi, if you can get it at the low price I mention, you will have an absolute bargain as it's a good little receiver. Happy hunting 👍

Hi, nice to hear from you - it's a really good little set 👍

@@TheWobblyCameraGuy you too.

Hi, many thanks for your feedback and greetings from the UK. I live smack in the middle of the England, so it did well on its little 400mm aerial. It only stored the stations it picked up from around 9 to 11Mhz, (including a few very fringy ones) as it ran out of memory to store any more stations from outside those frequencies, (3 to just under 22Mhz). If you can find one at the low price point I mention in the video, the I would recommend purchasing as they are fun just to play around with 🙂

@@TheWobblyCameraGuy I will look for one. It would be nice to have a shortwave radio with good selectivity & sensitivity that you don't have to treat like its a 1937 Martin D28 once owned by Hank Wiiliams Sr. I became interested in shortwave bands again after the Russian Invassion of Ukraine as a means to get news out of western European countries that otherwise might not be available esspecially since KZfaq is very skitish regarding what is revealed. I find the Google translator that is a pre-installed App on my Samsung smart phone does a fairly good job of turning the foreign languages I pick up into my natiive American English and to know what to set the secondary language to in the App I just type the question "who is on 'frequency' now". Should that fail there is always the free shortwave schedule app that does a bang up job of letting you know too. Thanks for the info regarding the rsdio and good luck with your ongoing video production experiment. Mike B..

I know,could be location ,weather etc but it does seem that some radios are incredible even though really cheap and simple. I have listed quite a few on UK Amazon I can recommend

Hi, many thanks for getting in touch and your feedback. There are some little gems hidden in the many compact budget receivers that are out there. This I think is one of them and is a real bargain for the money. My other ‘go to’ good performing receiver is the Kchibo KK-9803. It has an analogue dial but as one KZfaqr commented ‘it’s a little beast’ and really pulls the stations in. Thanks for highlighting the other compatibles, XH data seems to be a popular receiver judging by the positive reviews given on KZfaq.

Sometimes these stations are aimed directly towards Europe. This is why they are sometimes harder to receive in other regions. WLC for example is aiming towards Europe and can still only be heard in south Africa if you are lucky and the receiving conditions are excellent.

Hi, I suspect that this is 'badge engineered' by several different manufactures as do most of these little sets from AliExpress. I agree with you about the sound. Whilst it doesn't have the advantage of a passive radiator that some other similar sized sets have, it's absolutely fine for every day listening.

@@TheWobblyCameraGuy So let me get this straight, you use the slider to jump the meter bands and the up and down tuning buttons to tune around. Does that mean a single press of the tuning buttons will tune +5kHz or -5kHz up or down, and when holding the buttons will search to the next strongest station?

@@radioweebdx7680 Hi, you are spot on with your assessment. On shortwave you can tune manually in 5Khz steps or as you correctly said, you hold the manual up or down buttons for slightly longer and they will find the next available station 👍

@@TheWobblyCameraGuy That's not too bad to navigate around the various frequencies. Unlike the Lidls Brand version where you had to go through a not so obvious menu to the various meter bands on shortwave. Thanks for answering my question.

@@radioweebdx7680 Happy to help and thankyou for your knowledge and advice 🙂

The Xhdata D219 is an amazing radio for the price point. Unbeatable 💪💪💪

Hi, thanks for highlighting this little receiver, it reminds me of the excellent Kchibo KK-99803. Xdata seems to get a lot of attention so I may need to take a closer look at what they have to offer - thanks👍

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I have had a quick look on Amazon and the images appear to be the same from what I can tell, but I am not sure which country you are in, so there may be subtle changes for certain locations. I bought mine via Ali Express, so there may be slight differences in the design. Interesting 🤔 BTW they also offer a J166 so they may have incorrectly listed the one you are looking at?

​@@TheWobblyCameraGuy the J-166 just might be the best value AM/FM old school pocket radio today. Outperforms my Sony ICF-P26 and P27 on FM.

@@mtc4him201 Hi, thanks for your feedback. You might have to shop around, but it does prove that there are still some bargains to be had considering the price point for this little multi-band receiver. Far from perfect, but great value in my opinion 👍

Hi, thanks for getting touch. I have had a look on AliExpress myself and as you say, it doesn’t appear when you enter the details in the search bar. This, can happen from time to time and I have found with other receivers that sometimes they become available after a little while, so it might be worth checking again in a week or two?

H, thanks for highlighting the Belkin, I will go and have a look at that 👍 I hope your ears are healing now - mine were bleeding too! lol

Hi, many thanks for your feedback. I tend to add some side views just to add a little extra dimension to my videos, but you raise a very good point, thankyou.

Hi, thanks for the clarification on what’s happening on the shortwave transmissions. From that, it will be interesting to see how in the future the manufacturers of these budget-style sets re-design their offerings whilst still trying to keep costs low. Interesting stuff!

Really? Do you have any source for that?

@@kentuckyjohnson7394 I would welcome any insight from fellow KZfaqrs on this subject - thanks.

Rubbish, I prefer an SSB radio too, but you normally don't get SSB in budget radios. If you do, they can't sync or don't do it well. SW is broadcast radio, SSB is amateur radio. Usually a totally different audience to target, especially in a radio so cheap. 73

Hi, yes I agree, I have had a quick look at it as its a model I am not familiar with. Similar display and features, but does appear a little more expensive at first look 🤔? thanks for sharing your thoughts.

@@TheWobblyCameraGuy I think its similar in function but the tecsun is analog with a screen. The Prunus is a neat radio though.

@@dutchbeef8920 Hi, that makes more sense now. Not many new true analogue radios available now so that makes it an interesting little set - thanks for the clarification👍

Oh dear, sorry about that, will try to wobble the camera a little more next time 😄. The name actually came about from my very first video as I was holding the camera in my left hand and using my right hand for a very poor demo, wobbled like crazy so thought why not use it for my channel name 🙃

@@TheWobblyCameraGuy 👌 Thank you

@@migsvensurfing6310 👍👍

Ha ha - it's his new hobby LOL - That made me smile 🙂

Hi, it sounds like you got yourself a bargain considering you bought it in the UK! Please let us know the make and model as I'm sure other KZfaqr's would be interested in your find. All the best TWCG

This one, got mine for £8 complete with rechargeable battery kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbqUf7RizNazXY0.html @@TheWobblyCameraGuy

Hi, many thanks for reaching out and providing great information on the frequency steps provided for the various worldwide markets. I can confirm that the one AliExpress provided to myself, (I am based in the UK) has 10kHz steps for AM, 100Khz steps for FM & 5Khz steps for SW.

@@TheWobblyCameraGuy10 kHz step for AM also used in UK overseas territories in the Americas (Bermuda, Falkland Islands, BVI, Cayman Islands, etc..)

Hi, many thanks for sharing your knowledge with me and other KZfaqrs. Interesting stuff 👍 @@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY

Hola, es interesante saberlo, agradezco tus comentarios. Es un pequeño receptor decente y vale la pena si puede obtener uno al precio más bajo que menciono en el video. Gracias de nuevo.