Hello. I received the XHDATA D-808 today. A nice little radio. I am however wondering if anybody out there knows how to deactivate the Alarm function? The instruction manual is vague regarding this. The D-808 is a sensitivity monster on SW. With very weak and fading signals it has a slight edge on the PL-660. But if I can get the sync to engage without screeching the PL-660 can on occasions better the D-808 on this score. The D-808 really is good here. The audio is very intelligible with weak signals.

Definitely a fault in the radio which is a shame because it’s a great piece of kit – unfortunately, it’s not going to be much good if I have to keep removing the battery every time I turn it off. Radio Waves: SWL Contest, Shortwave Modernization Concerns, Still Need AM, and ARRL Asks for Comments on 60M Rulemaking Do not submit a product review critiquing another review or reviewer. Reviewers should be able to share their product opinion without being publicly criticized. This is making an old dream come true for me – a full-featured “communication receiver” (well, almost) that’s “wearable”, one that allows me to enjoy hands-free and hassle-free full shortwave reception on all bands without compromises (particularly in sensitivity) when I do the boring walks the doctor prescribed!The Bad is that there is seemingly no longer any protection of intellectual property. If any design can be taken, copied (they call it “reverse engineering”) and modified, that certainly might stifle development because it’s cheaper to copy an existing circuit than to design your own. I think it would be frustrating to sweat out and spend money on a new design only to find someone else had taken your radio and used it as a starting point for a new model. FM stereo / MW / LW/ SW SSB and Air Band radio with high sensitivity, good selectivity, and user-operation friendly Products to be reviewed typically should be tangible ham radio related items such as radios, antennas, towers, test equipment, feedlines, etc. Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown

If you’re putting fully-charged, fresh AAs in the PL-660 and it’s burning through the batteries without even being turned on, then you most certainly have a faulty unit. Even on superficial examination, clearly there are non-trivial differences in the hardware designs. Thank you for your question, Sorin. I’m letting a friend borrow my D-808 so, unfortunately, don’t have it handy to confirm this for you. My hope is that an SWLing Post reader can help. Outsides where the noises of the digital world are gone, the D-808 presents all bands almost as filled as my dipole at home and so there’s always an interesting QSO or some overseas radio program to enjoy. To give you an idea on what I mean by “no compromises”: my companion on today’s walk was NY2PO from upstate NY (3,728mi/6,000km away) on 40m, constantly coming in with a signal allowing for convenient listening, despite the bad conditions (SFI=68 A=10).

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Sangean made some basic decisions with the 909×2. Many of them are quite positive over the old 909x. For many users the 909×2 has more than enough features to justify the higher price of the receiver. The manual says the radio takes USB Micro charging, not updated to match the current version of the radio that uses USB-C. This is what it says about charging: There is much room for improvement though – for example the slightly borked control of the DSP, the chuffing/tuning and AGC issues on SSB let the D-808 miss the title “most stunning cheap little radio ever” by a hair.