PL990 Digital Worldband AM/FM Shortwave Longwave Radio with Single Side Band Reception & MP3 Player, Matte Black

As a licensed ham radio operator I find myself buying all sorts of radios and have 4 shortwave radios. 1) The radio arrives in a high quality box expertly packed. 2) includes an impressive leather case. 3) The speaker and sound this radio produces is a noticeable level above other radios of equal or lesser value. This is a fabulous sounding radio. 4) At this price you expect SSB, great sensitivity and selectivity and great reception. This radio checks those boxes. 5) At this price you expect package to include optional long wire antenna. Included. Of all these features the feature this radio provides over other models is the amazing sound quality. You won’t be disappointed.

This is a modern radio with modern features, but from its execution to documentation, is clearly a love letter to the past (watch some YouTube videos about it!) Bravo, Tecsun. I also own the Eton Field BT, but bought this because it can play MP3s (it was worth that much to me) and was money well spent. This a more premium product than any Eton I’ve owned. I was a Grundig guy back in the day, but will definitely look first at Tecsun in the future.

This receiver supports it's specifications and, as an added bonus, has excellent audio fidelity. FM is excellent and tuning all bands is extremely is easy and precise. I highly recommend this receiver for anyone that needs a good, portable all-band receiver.

The price is a bit high, but the product quality is decent. If you're not too bothered by the cost, it’s worth considering.

Overall, a great little receiver. It works much better for SSB and CW on the ham bands, than other portable receivers. The biggest problems are in the software. I noticed the following issues: 1) Memory truncates to nearest KHz. If you try to store a frequency of 14.31250, it is changed to 14.31200 2) Memory is easily corrupted when scanning into it, requiring a reset of all memory to make it work again. 3) Battery status wanders from full to empty and back unless fully charged or discharged. 4) It lacks true AM synchronous detection which uses both sidebands to synchronize and detect the signal. What it does is use the carrier to lock the frequency (similar to AFC on an FM radio) and then receive one of the sidebands. This only works on signals with little fading. For most fading signals, simply using basic USB or LSB works better.

Still working well in reception and sound quality and battery life was considered long within my expectations.

Nice radio, very good quality, great battery life. The MP-3 player using the included 32GB SD miniature card is very bad. Only plays a a few of the songs, will regularly skip songs, at times will repeat a song endlessly and after one song actually started a tune counter (like fast forward) until the player locked up with a “no” on the screen.

I've been using this radio for about 7 weeks and am pleased with my purchase. It's been used primarily for Medium Wave (AM Broadcast) and FM reception. Audio quality is good for a portable radio. Expect to spend a bit of time familiarizing yourself with the features. The selectivity between AM stations 10 KHz apart is akin to a $500 or greater receiver. Tecsun must be using DSP to produce such selectivity. Sensitivity is very good as well. On the shortwave side, reception will benefit if using an external antenna. It's sad, but world-wide shortwave broadcasting has nearly gone "dark". What remains, that can be received in North America are marginal broadcasters, often with very narrow audiences. SSB reception of amateur radio is stable but again improved with the use of an external antenna. (albeit requiring nothing elaborate) I'm very pleased with this radio. I would rate it as one of the best full feature, general coverage portable radios available in 2021. As a kid growing up in the 1960's and 70's, coping with unstable analog equipment, such a radio would have been miraculous.

Un magnífico receptor multi bandas y muy intuitivo en su uso, además, la recepción de estaciones de larga distancia mediante a.m., LW, ISW es excelente. También, el reproductor que incluye este magnífico receptor de radio es muy práctico cuando queremos escuchar nuestros audios favoritos en diferentes formatos. Como incondicional RadioEscucha desde siempre recomiendo la compra de este receptor de radio

Es un excelente receptor, se siente de buena calidad, pesa lo suficiente y tiene buen sonido. La recepción en onda corta también es muy buena con su antena telescópica que mide unos 97 centímetros, su último tramo es muy delgado por Loque se debe ser cuidadoso. Funciona bien el Bluetooth para escuchar música desde tu teléfono y tiene buena duración de la batería. Sólo hay un detalle en la perilla de sintonía, se endurece pero sólo un poco en algún punto al girarla, pero poca cosa. Por lo demás un radio fantástico para la escucha de onda corta. Para FM es muy bueno porque tiene un sonido equilibrado, si tuviese RDS sería mejor, pero no es imprescindible, toda la vida escuché radio sin necesidad de ello.

Excelente recepción muy sensible am fm onda corta tecsun es una buena marca

El radio tiene una apreciación de ser de buena calidad y construcción robusta, tiene muy buena recepción y sensibilidad.

Me gusta mucho que tiene casi todos los controles al frente.