DX-286 Portable Shortwave Radio FM Stereo/AM/LW/SW Ultra-sensitive full-band radio utilising TEF6686 chip, featuring LCD display, RDS alarm clock and 18650 rechargeable battery (Black)

The radio is really only for someone who knows about radios. Don’t get me wrong the radio is really nice, super sensitive fm reception. Great sound quality, it’s amazing for its size. But it has loads of interesting and useful settings, I don’t think you will get the best out of this radio unless you go into settings it up how you want to use it. Not good battery life warning, it says the battery is full then without any ramp down in displayed power, it displays almost empty!!! Don’t attempt to just switch on and use, Read manual first, or not much will happen. I think that the default settings could do with tweaking, depending on where it’s being sold. Personally I am really enjoying using it.

Unbeatable at what it does and worth every penny

Amazingly sensitive radio and easy to use. First of all, it comes in what looks like a toolbox with soft padding inside. Radio, pouch and detailed instruction manual (although not needed to use straight away). Sound is very good for such a small speaker in the radio. I pulled in stations on FM up to about 190 miles away over hilly territory - a feat which only the Tecsun PL-880 also did but the Qodosen got in stronger! Very good DSP sensitivity, too. One evening I tried LW and picked up Radio Algeria on 252kHz .. indoors. It was quiet but considering I was indoors and using its internal antenna .. I was really impressed. All in all, I waited a long time to try to find a sensitive, small radio with RDS and AM .. and am not disappointed. Just one small point to note - you do need 18650 batteries for this radio.

A very superior piece of technology. Ideal for travels. Extremely impressed.

This is an extremely sensitive radio with good receptions. It picks up more stations than most of my other radios. Unlike some of the other reviews mine came with an included battery.

This Radio was highly recommended to me by "Fred in the shed" on Youtube! First impression: it is very well made, feels & looks a bit like the Sony mini radios of the 80's and 90's, (Icfw 55/100) compact, massive, solid and nothing looks or feels cheap! Quite the opposite in fact! All in all a really nice set. FM is a treat, I can suddenly hear stations I never heard before! MW & LW is not of much importance here. But SW is again excellent, right up there with my big SW-receivers which are of a high quality - incredible! You will need to work with the manual, don't underestimate this radio! Not so great: no battery, but you can get these easily. One detail I am not all to happy with: I had to pay €22.- in customs charges. I ordered this radio on the amazon uk website thinking, I would get this radio through the UK ( like most of the things for Ireland) and thanks to the customs agreement UK/Europe ( For goods up to €150 no customs charges occur) would not be confronted with customs charges. I still think the radio is well worth it , no question. But the fact that customs charges will apply need to be highlighted on the Website. Otherwise all in all: an exceptional product and one hell of a Christmas present! Thanks Fred!

This radio has a vastly improved sensitivity over any other radio that I have tested. I tested it with a passive Youloop and an active MLA-30+. The passive loop works best overall with the lowest noise. It took me a little time to determine that the supplied aerial lead is of inferior quality and needs replacement (see my image). I have removed the telescopic aerial completely since it is a noise and interference magnet when the external aerial is being used.

Fab little Radio. Recommended.

Tiene muy buena recepción, en la banda MW durante la noche se escuchan estaciones lejanas claramente, en SW inclusive sin conectar la antena externa recibe muy bien, en la banda FM recibe con muy buena calidad las estaciones que regularmente otros radios no reciben. Su escaneo es muy veloz, el D-808 es más lento en el escaneo, pero el DX-286 es casi tan veloz en el escaneo como mi Icom IC-R6. La pantalla es muy clara y grande, la podemos ver mejor quienes usamos lentes. Todo el teclado se ve muy claro ya que contrastan muy bien las letras blancas con el plástico negro. La bocina reproduce un audio de buena calidad. El radio es muy pequeño, será fácil transportarlo a cualquier lugar. Al principio es un poco difícil aprender a utilizarlo mediante todos sus botones, he batallado en aprender a almacenar memorias y poder recuperarlas, tiene muchas funciones, pero no se aprenden fácilmente. Ojalá en un futuro saquen un modelo que incluya la banda aérea. Le compré una batería de 2800 mAh y dura aproximadamente una semana utilizándolo dos horas diarias, la carga dura bastante tiempo, casi todo un día, les recomiendo que lo carguen cuando ya quede una barra de batería ya que se comienza a apagar. Tiene varias formas de activar el temporizador de apagado automático. En general es muy buen radio, muy portátil y con muy buena recepción, lo seguiré usando cada noche y espero que Qodosen fabrique más y mejores modelos con esta misma calidad.

Excelente produto.

Dobre, bardzo dobra czułość na FM

The Qodosen is touted as a very sensitive radio and it lives up to its reputation. I also have a Tecsun PL-660 which is on par with my car’s radio but the Qodosen blows the two out of the water. It’s simply able to pull in weak radio stations with ease and greater clarity. Living in metropolitan Melbourne, I might lucky to be able to get a staticky signal of FM stations from Geelong or Gippsland on the Tecsun, but with the Qodosen, if I point the antenna right, the same stations come in with such clarity that they might as well be local stations. On FM, the difference in improved reception is very pronounced, and the Tecsun is no slouch either. On AM likewise, indoors the improvement is not as much but is still there nonetheless, partially owing to the lack of synchronous detection, which the Tecsun has. On AM frequencies where there is no local stations on similiar frequencies, the Qodosen wins easily, but on frequencies where there is a local frequency nearby, the Tecsun offers the option to choose one of the sidebands which the Qodosen does not - for example: trying to tune into 702 kHz from Sydney while 693 kHz is a local Melbourne station. Nevertheless, the Qodosen never falls behind on AM. But outdoors away from radio interference where the external whip antenna is able to be utilised for AM, the Qodosen is simply out of this world. Where there is silence on the Tecsun and the car radio, the Qodosen pulls in radio stations with ease. The gap between the Qodosen and the Tecsun and car radio feels like the gap between the Tecsun and your run-of-the-mill household radio. AM outdoors is simply not a fair comparison. Furthermore, the Qodosen also has RDS, which is a nice feature to have. It is also quite tiny, and can conveniently fit in the pocket. Overall the Qodosen is a great radio and I would highly recommend.

Il prodotto ideale per chi è appassionato alla ricezione di emittenti in FM a distanza (FM-DX), in particolare grazie all'ottima selettività che separa senza interferenze segnali su frequenze fra loro a distanza anche di soli 100 kHz (87.9, 88, 88.1 ecc.).