XHDATAD109WB Portable AM/FM/SW/LW/WB Weather Radio Shortwave Radio Receiver with NOAA Alert, Battery Operated Great Sound Wireless BT Mp3 Speaker, SOS Alert Alarm Clock Sleep Function

This radio is my first shortwave receiver. It’s very well made, and very capable. FM reception is really good. AM is also good. It also pulls in some interesting SW broadcasts. The weather band is a nice feature to have also. Speaker sounds nice for voice and music. The sound is even better with earbuds. It’s easy to pair with devices to use as a Bluetooth speaker.A few things could be improved: the instruction manual leaves something to be desired. The way that the buttons work and how they are labeled is not intuitive. It takes a bit of experimenting to learn how to use the radio’s features. Fortunately there are a number of YouTube videos on the D-109WB that demonstrate how it works.This seems to be a good radio- I recommend it.

I bought it at Prime day saving event for $39+tax. It has Silab/Skyworks 4734 chipset, a good med range full band receiver, plus BT and common audio file playback. Overall I would rate 4 stars for the price you pay.PROS:- Good AM-MW and FM sensitivities and can pull in almost the same amount of stations as Qodosen DX-286- SW sensitivity is OK when an external antenna is used.- LW is useless in NA due to lack of stations, but tested with a signal generator to have a similar sensitivity level at 510KHz LW, vs. 530K in MW band (RSSI is 56dBuV from the same source strength at respective frequencies)- The BT and music file playback are a nice bonus.- Decent full range speaker with good suspension and acoustic design, though just 40mm diameter. It plays loud and clearly with decent bass.CONS:- Front end design saturates easily in SW band, and receives lots of harmonics or inter-modulation signals from MW band when it's overloaded. e.g 2nd harmonics from local 50KW blowtorch 1170KHz KLOK. It pops up strongly at 2.34MHz SW band!- LCD is not biased properly (at least for my unit), best viewing angle is 45 degrees lower than the normal direction. Hard to read in other angles.- USB type C was not designed right, missing 5Kohm pull-down on the CC lines. It won't charge on a USB-C PD charger with type C-C cable, but it would be ok to use type A to C cable (thanks to no CC control)it comes default with 9K channel spacing for MW band, so some may be surprised it only receives a couple of stations in AM-MW (much less hit for common multiples of 9K and 10K at 90K, you will get 1/10 stations). Power it off and press on the number 2 key to toggle to 10K mode in NA, before you return it!

Love the build quality of this radio and sound. I love the idea of using 18650 lion battery as the power source and the charging onboard along with Bluetooth options. All bands seem to work great, love the band width options for SW and AM listening. Lots of options on this radio at a great price.Now if we could get some company to step it up and build an all in one radio with light, SSB, Air band, 2 meter, and AUX port with the options of this radio.My coworker was so impressed with this radio, he wanted me to pick one up for him.Update 1, I put this in Bluetooth mode for over 10 hrs and it never dropped below 50% of the battery. The battery was fully charged. So very efficient on the battery. I was thinking about picking up a larger capacity battery as this comes stock with 2000 mha. And with 3500 mha would almost double its listening time without having to recharge.

I will preface this with the fact that I personally use a C. Crane Skywave SSB 2 and absolutely love it (other than the tinny, low powered speaker and the MUCH higher price). I bought these XHDATA ones for some family members as they are reasonably priced and they just needed basic emergency radios.It's a nice little radio. Good battery life. It does use rechargeable batteries, not standard A, AA, AA, etc. You can find the batteries lots of place online and they are not expensive. The user interface is well laid out well and easy to figure out for a new user like my family members. I've had SW radios for decades just for fun so I'm more familiar, but everyone was able to figure these XHDATA ones out quickly.The downsides are the signal pickup is not great. Even buying their external reel antenna it isn't anywhere near my C Crane with just the built in antenna. Heck, it isn't even close to my 30+ old Radio Shack analog one. The speaker isn't as tinny as the C Crane, but it's still pretty awful. Tinny. Weak. Just no range. There are so many good, low cost, small, low power speaker options here in the 2020s vs. the ancient tiny magnetic cones that just don't reproduce sound well these manufacturers keep using.