I bought one of these from a Chinese site for about £25.
Not a bad little SDR based radio.

Some versions have an arduino nano on the board but I opened mine up and
it has the ATmega chip directly on the main board.

It is a general coverage receiver ranging from 300kHz (commercial LW), commercial MW to a wideband commercial FM(64-108MHz).

Other bands are from Top band through to 30Mhz. AM, FM and USB/LSB. It
is not restricted to Ham bands and broadcast LW/MW/FM, it also handles
CB frequencies.

It comes with a telescopic antenna that connects to a BNC connector. It
has an internal battery powered from a USB socket

It's a nice little general coverage receiver. Even on the telescopic
antenna it pulls in well and on my end fed it really pulls in well.

It has a clear postage stamp sized OLED display and control for band
switching, volume, bandwidth, tuning step size, AGC and mode.

Tuning is via a rotary encoder and seems to drop the sound to 0 before
rising to the normal volume so it is not very good for spinning the dial
and scanning the bands.

You can buy them from Amazon for about £75-80 or if you can wait for a
few weeks from Alibaba/Banggood/Wish etc for £25-30

Andy

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On 09/03/2022 09:10, andyW wrote:

I bought one of these from a Chinese site for about £25.
Not a bad little SDR based radio.

Some versions have an arduino nano on the board but I opened mine up and
it has the ATmega chip directly on the main board.

It is a general coverage receiver ranging from 300kHz (commercial LW), commercial MW to a wideband commercial FM(64-108MHz).

Other bands are from Top band through to 30Mhz. AM, FM and USB/LSB. It
is not restricted to Ham bands and broadcast LW/MW/FM, it also handles
CB frequencies.

It comes with a telescopic antenna that connects to a BNC connector. It
has an internal battery powered from a USB socket

It's a nice little general coverage receiver. Even on the telescopic
antenna it pulls in well and on my end fed it really pulls in well.

It has a clear postage stamp sized OLED display and control for band switching, volume, bandwidth, tuning step size, AGC and mode.

Tuning is via a rotary encoder and seems to drop the sound to 0 before
rising to the normal volume so it is not very good for spinning the dial
and scanning the bands.

You can buy them from Amazon for about £75-80 or if you can wait for a
few weeks from Alibaba/Banggood/Wish etc for £25-30

Andy

had mine a few months not bad for the money but like all chinky gear not
up to a resonable standard .....

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On 09/03/2022 15:39, Jim Stewart ... wrote:

On 09/03/2022 09:10, andyW wrote:

I bought one of these from a Chinese site for about £25.
Not a bad little SDR based radio.

Some versions have an arduino nano on the board but I opened mine up
and it has the ATmega chip directly on the main board.

It is a general coverage receiver ranging from 300kHz (commercial LW),
commercial MW to a wideband commercial FM(64-108MHz).

Other bands are from Top band through to 30Mhz. AM, FM and USB/LSB. It
is not restricted to Ham bands and broadcast LW/MW/FM, it also handles
CB frequencies.

It comes with a telescopic antenna that connects to a BNC connector.
It has an internal battery powered from a USB socket

It's a nice little general coverage receiver. Even on the telescopic
antenna it pulls in well and on my end fed it really pulls in well.

It has a clear postage stamp sized OLED display and control for band
switching, volume, bandwidth, tuning step size, AGC and mode.

Tuning is via a rotary encoder and seems to drop the sound to 0 before
rising to the normal volume so it is not very good for spinning the
dial and scanning the bands.

You can buy them from Amazon for about £75-80 or if you can wait for a
few weeks from Alibaba/Banggood/Wish etc for £25-30

Andy

had mine a few months not bad for the money but like all chinky gear not
up to a resonable standard .....

,,,and it doesn't matter how cheap something is if it is rubbish

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On 09/03/2022 20:25, Jim Stewart ... wrote:

On 09/03/2022 15:39, Jim Stewart ... wrote:

On 09/03/2022 09:10, andyW wrote:

I bought one of these from a Chinese site for about £25.
Not a bad little SDR based radio.

Some versions have an arduino nano on the board but I opened mine up
and it has the ATmega chip directly on the main board.

It is a general coverage receiver ranging from 300kHz (commercial
LW), commercial MW to a wideband commercial FM(64-108MHz).

Other bands are from Top band through to 30Mhz. AM, FM and USB/LSB.
It is not restricted to Ham bands and broadcast LW/MW/FM, it also
handles CB frequencies.

It comes with a telescopic antenna that connects to a BNC connector.
It has an internal battery powered from a USB socket

It's a nice little general coverage receiver. Even on the telescopic
antenna it pulls in well and on my end fed it really pulls in well.

It has a clear postage stamp sized OLED display and control for band
switching, volume, bandwidth, tuning step size, AGC and mode.

Tuning is via a rotary encoder and seems to drop the sound to 0
before rising to the normal volume so it is not very good for
spinning the dial and scanning the bands.

You can buy them from Amazon for about £75-80 or if you can wait for
a few weeks from Alibaba/Banggood/Wish etc for £25-30

Andy

had mine a few months not bad for the money but like all chinky gear
not up to a resonable standard .....

,,,and it doesn't matter how cheap something is if it is rubbish

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZTz4VQLtt5memnIHb_9fbA

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