I have had this radio for about a year now. No real complaints. I hear people fussing that they can't pick up anything on the shortwave "band" but most people just don't understand the frequencies and bands. They think just turn it on and hear people all over the world instantly talking immediately. Yeah out of the box with the antenna and nothing more it's a good am/fm radio and nothing more. I've heard great stuff on it with a long wire antenna. I love it because it's small and easily fits in any bags. The batteries last a very long time because it does not get loud or do much. It's solid as it 8s though

Got one connected to a slinky in the garage. Works great!

Nice little shortwave radio! Wishing you & your family a healthy, happy, & prosperous New Year!

What's up neighbor!!! I'm in Tennessee, not that far from you! Glad to know there are still shortwave lovers out there!

Thank you for the review. I want to get one of these for my nephew for his birthday

Nice looking good Sounding little radio. Happy new year from reg in Dublin Ireland

After watching one of your videos months a ago I grabbed the Tecsun R9012. It was only $22 and I like the large analog looking tuning dial. Works great.

Nice “ pocket “ radio , Retekess is cranking out some cool stuff !

Just bought one and it is very good for what it is.

Hello american radio amateour! My name is igor belevich.i am 39 years old. I am radio amateour from belarus . I have a lot of analog sw,mw,am,lw radios. I received voice of america in english,overcomer with brother stair from usa,wrmi from usa,and wbcq from usa,In english,and knls,alaska,usa in russian on short wave here in belarus. I love analog simple sw,am,mw radios.

I have a job I do in Arizona for 27 hours a month that's 50 miles from the Phoenix transmitters, and about 40 miles from the mountain Prescott ones. The tuner on V117 is truly a bargain for the $12 I spent. I have a V115 which sounds better, but the tuner sensitivity doesn't come close. The stepped tuning on the small dial is tricky at first, but comes better with practice.

I have a short wave radio . Mine is a RadioShack brand multi Band receiver. It has am cb sw1/sw2 Fm/air Tv1/Tv2 vhf/uhf and Wx with fine tuning.. Really love this radio receiver.

Love shortwave on the go 👍

In belarus i can receive a lot of foreign sw,am,mw radio stations ,even sw from usa,not to mention sw stations from china,turkey,rumania,n.korea, spain,france,bbc from uk,germany,and several others.

Looks like a nice, inexpensive radio.

might get the bb-c at night.

Nice radio sounds good as well where can you go d these? Amazon, EBay?

I had one like that. the dial does slied down

Thanks and good morning Eric...is it me.... or is the voice volume real low ?

I fell into this video because I was looking for a review of this specific model for a friend of mine who is blind. I got astonished for something you said about AM transmissions in your area. Isn't really there any AM transmitter in 500 miles (804km) around? That would be like having almost my whole country (Spain) without any AM station at all. AM here has only the major talk radios (RNE ones, COPE, SER, maybe Onda Cero and some other private and region-owned ones) and, who knows, maybe they are still there for some sort of public service for very exceptionally remote areas. I even have one in my city (Alcoy) which is 60000 people, and aother one(s) 60km away near Alicante (300000 people), and oher(s) about 120km away near Valencia (800000 people), not to mention one located in Algeria /Jill FM) that, according to the info I have, transmits with the same power as Radio China International (150kW) and all of them can be caught outdoors during daytime and even indoors, if there is not much electromagnetic disturbance in a specific spot. AM is dying here, but is not so dead. I thought that, just because you have large "empty" land areas, you would put some emphasis in AM transmissions than us. I imagine that happens in your country because you guys focus in NOAA for an emergency case. Is it true? Is NOAA still valued by an average person there, or it's just a thing for "radio nerds" like me? Sorry, that a long comment, I should have kept it short. My apologies.

Good thing it takes AA instead of AAA.

I am looking at the ats25 for my first sw radio any thoughts?

I had this radio I can’t stand DSP tuning I gave mine away

I got a little tuscan. so I don't know where my little one like that is

Your sw receiver has no sw 49 meter band .

cheap in price