The best AMN/FM radio?

[austingrace]

Hello to all. I have the Teksun PL-390 which is the best radio I have ever owned. I don't use the shortwave on it much but it seems to do well enough with shortwave. The sound quality is not the best but it works. I'm open to purchasing another FM/AM radio. It's ok if it has shortwave on it. I'm looking for a radio that is easy to use and has really good sound quality and is portable. I know some of you own the PL-390 and I hate the tuning on the thing. I miss the tuning on my g5 or whatever. It will be interesting to see what you guys say. Again, I would like the radio to focus on AM/FM but if by chance it has shortwave it's ok. Oh yeah, SSB would be a plus but not necessarily a deal breaker. The top 2 things I look for in a portable is reception and sound quality. My sony walkman I have delivers on sound quality but not reception. I think the PL-390 tries it's best at both but kind of fails at the sound quality part. Right now if someone asked me this question I would say the pl-390. If you could still find it then I'd tell them to get the grundig g5. That was an awesome radio. Or the eton e5.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Hello to all. I have the Teksun PL-390 which is the best radio I have ever owned. I don't use the shortwave on it much but it seems to do well enough with shortwave. The sound quality is not the best but it works. I'm open to purchasing another FM/AM radio. It's ok if it has shortwave on it. I'm looking for a radio that is easy to use and has really good sound quality and is portable. I know some of you own the PL-390 and I hate the tuning on the thing. I miss the tuning on my g5 or whatever. It will be interesting to see what you guys say. Again, I would like the radio to focus on AM/FM but if by chance it has shortwave it's ok. Oh yeah, SSB would be a plus but not necessarily a deal breaker. The top 2 things I look for in a portable is reception and sound quality. My sony walkman I have delivers on sound quality but not reception. I think the PL-390 tries it's best at both but kind of fails at the sound quality part. Right now if someone asked me this question I would say the pl-390. If you could still find it then I'd tell them to get the grundig g5. That was an awesome radio. Or the eton e5.

The CCrane Radio-EP is the best AM/FM portable currently available for DX.

 

[KR4BD]

Despite its compact size, I have been absolutely impressed with the Tecsum PL-606 for AM AND FM reception. I've own (and have owned) a bunch of great radios over the years and this radio ranks with the best. It is incredibly selective and sensitive on both bands. In my Lexington, KY home, I can hear WAKY-103.5 with just the 2 foot monopole, pull-out antenna attached to the radio. Yes, I have to find a "sweet spot" to hear WAKY, but it can be done. This is particularly incredible because there are 103.3 (local and strong) and 103.7 stations nearby which don't interfere with reception on 103.5. DX on AM is also incredible and very selective with this tiny radio.

 

[ddsparxx]

The tuning on the Tecsun 390 is a pain in the rear, but not so on the 606. What I did with the 390 is that I enter each each frequency on the presets to make this a little less of a problem. On the CCRadio-EP, on AM, the EP overloads badly on the upper side of the AM when I am too close to an AM station what operates on the higher portion of the AM band. Adjusting the fine tune helps reduce it somewhat, in my case. I find that radio is a great DX machine when it is away from AM transmitters, as I once noticed it last time when I was on NC's Outer Banks coast.

 

[RadioPhillyFan]

Our Yamaha house stereo is capable of picking up fringe signals (like Baltimore signals 100 miles away) without tropo. Just a great antenna and a great stereo system.

 

[crainbebo]

For FM, probably the Grundig G8. I was heading to Olympia and heard CFMI 101.1 in Vancouver, just blocks away from the Capitol building, at least 160 mi S. I also heard KDBL 92.9 in Yakima going through Dupont. In Marysville, WA I have heard KASB 89.9 from Bellevue at only 60w in between 89.7 KMWS and 90.1 KNWP, both huge signals!

-crainbebo

 

[Tincap]

For FM, probably the Grundig G8. I was heading to Olympia and heard CFMI 101.1 in Vancouver, just blocks away from the Capitol building, at least 160 mi S. I also heard KDBL 92.9 in Yakima going through Dupont. In Marysville, WA I have heard KASB 89.9 from Bellevue at only 60w in between 89.7 KMWS and 90.1 KNWP, both huge signals!

-crainbebo

I have to say, I'm really, really impressed with the FM performance on my G8 (aka Tecsun PL-300WT). AM is good, but with a smallish ferrite bar, it probably wouldn't out DX radios such as my DX-440 or PR-D5...I'll have to try some night . And oh, with LW and full spectrum SW bands (though no LSB/USB), at $50 (US), how can you go wrong???

~BG

 

[crainbebo]

AM is not great on mine. The soft mute function really affects it's performance. There's also no LSB/USB so I can't listen to ragchews on 75m nights...

-crainbebo

 

[mimo]

The AM performance on my G8 is very go0d. With a Terk Advantage, it's equal with the cc radio plus barefo0t. It's the second best AM tuner I own. I live in an AM challenged area of town and it gets every station I hear in the areas where AM is much better and almost as go0d.

 

[austingrace]

I can't stand those radios that mute the weak am stations. I think my g5 did that as well. That was the reason I got rid of the g8. I think the pl-390 still kills it on both am and fm.