I was very excited to hear this radio after doing a lot of investigate on practically priced but feature rich shortwave radio receivers. Several radio hobby sites metioned this radio in very favorable terms. To be sure when the radio arrived I was pleased by the build feature of the unit, and the feature set that the radio had, primarily the DSP chip.I was able to pull in a slew of shortwave stations in quite clearly (of way a lot depended upon time of day and atmopsheric situation.) I could routinely hear signals from Asia, Australia, South America and Europe. Most came in very clearly primarily considering the 390 is not a high end radio. The 390 pulled in over twice the amount of stations the Sony ICF-SW7600GR I had purchased previous to this radio.I was very pleased with this radio in the admittance. So much so that I bought two as gifts and another for work. After having the unit for three days, the 390 ongoing to constantly freeze up for no wits. I would have to take out the batteris, wait 20 summary and put the batteris back in. The day after that the tuning dial went wonky. So previous to the other radios I approved arrived I had to send the first one back. My attitude of this radio plummeted before long thereafter.The other three radios arrived. I planning it best to test them previous to I gave two of them as gifts. I ran each of them for a seven day cycle, sensibly difficult then out. One of the three was bad right out of the box with a defective sight and a defective tuner. That one went back to Amazon for a replacement. The following unit had terrible radio greeting on all bands and very poor sensitivity. The third froze up constantly from the admittance.So four radios ended up going back to Amazon for replacement. To make a long story short, after several exchanges to try and get four that worked by the book, I ended up everlastingly getting two that worked by the book. At that point I gave up exchanging the 390's and kept the two I had.What I found most intersting and exasperating at the same time is that I expected several radios that were consecutive series facts, and none of them performed the same way even even if they came of the line at the same time. I'll use radio greeting as a prime model. I set up three of these radios up side by side (all three consecutive series facts) and the feature of signals they could pull in were all over the map. One could pull in several stations very clearly, one pulled in almost as many stations in fairly well, and the third could not pull in any sations clearly and had a relentless buzz .So as much as I love the feature set of these little radios, they endure from the worst QC I've ever encountered in a radio.What prompted we to write this assess, is that one of the two I still have has just ongoing to constantly lock up.Until Tecsun can boost the QC on their radios I suggest you avoid them all collectively. This is another evident model of a great manufactured goods ruin by unforgivably poor Chinese feature power.
- Know What I Mean? Nudge Nudge "NH AV Fanatic"
I be inflicted with read some positive reviews of various Tescun radios with the DSP chip built-in pro enhanced routine. I finally resolute on this radio early the Tecsun family ranking. I primarily aid this radio pro AM talk programs as water supply as FM pro in cooperation talk and composition. I will mess about around with the shortwave to see how water supply with the intention of works over the next few nights.First of all my location is in northeastern NC. There are lots of FM stations surrounded by a 100 mile radius of my residence. Some of these stations are community, save pro not in my crumb so to converse in, so there is no interference with a strong versus weak rank. I am amazed at the stations this radio receives. In scan mode it seems to bring to a standstill every second or so with a rank I be inflicted with never heard of previous to. I norm the dial (sic) is full of FM. Listening owing to headphones is fantastic....great signal even early $10.00 cheapos.The AM is fantastic as water supply with lots of stations. Release despondent potential AM stations at this time, so no interference with tuning obliquely the dial. There are numerous filters on the AM early which to choose. Select the lone with the intention of offers the best weigh linking blast and voice. I eventually chose filter 3, which pro me, offers the best weigh. Rotate the radio to null out the signal pro best reception.The manual is water supply written, save pro with so loads of features, keep it handy to reference functions with the intention of you release occasionally aid. Playing around with the different buttons is extremely helpful to gather their function. I be fond of unadorned material, so anything over an on-off thrash, tuning and number controls are now and again challenging. The learning curve on this radio will be fleeting pro most those.In summation, I discover this radio extra than meets my expectations. Frills contain a fabric journey tiny bag, shortwave antenna, crumb thread, and in-ear headphones. The signal is ok early the radio speakers, save pro they are tiny speakers, so, lone would not expect symphonic signal. The radio events approximately 7x3x1 inches. This radio will doubtless be a ration smaller than you would expect, it was pro me. This is not a halfhearted, its vastly portable. Rich in features, this radio pro me, is be fond of experiencing radio pro the first time. Its with the intention of skilled.Update 6-9-11: Still extremely satisfied with Tecsun 390 radio. I be inflicted with tried the shortwave bands and reception is extremely skilled. I aid the full line antenna and this helps reception, save pro the telescopic antenna works great too. The rank presets are a delight as tuning thru the stations. Using the presets, you curve the tuning wheel up or down to the next point.....which is a great figure since it so simplifies upshot the "aptly" rank to listen to....no scanning the dial listening to unwanted stations. The release nit to pick of the litter is with the number wheel. As listening in stump at nocturnal, rotary the wheel just lone click, the number goes early go just a piece too despondent to go just a piece too distinguished. I be inflicted with read where others share this constant routine. Maybe this will be a in succession rectification to the circuitry with the intention of controls the number. Still, I tenderness this radio and be inflicted with no regrets buying it.
- J. Harvell "radio nut"
Selected this up a few months back, and I'm amazed including this radio. It's water supply made, has a skilled "feel" to it. The signal is reasonably skilled for a small radio. But the big section is the tuner is so dead-on and easy to use. The first time I fired it up in my house I was amazed including how fast it establish stations. (I'm in Northern California, not actually the best place for Shortwave greeting). I've used additional radios before but none were able to lock on as water supply as this unit.Highly recommend it... I use it during the day to listen to AM (it also can do FM Stereo, and ack as amplified speakers), and at nighttime I listen to the planet on this gem of a radio.
- P. Dyer "pinkertonfloyd"
Compelling into account that it only has one tiny lecturer, the sound from the Ipad is sweet good. It's only mono, even if. Also, its number doesn't go high enough for larger or noisy seats.It would be nice to have a set of outdoor speakers for it. But most of the notebook speakers I've seen are any lacking any power of their own, or they eat batteries too fast to be that much use. And most of them are too bulky to haul almost much. Contracted you could use a big set of speakers almost the house, but it would be nice to have some that are as portable as the Ipad is.I was compelling into account this conundrum, wondering where I could find a set of self-powered portable speakers for the Ipad, when I remembered that my Tecsun PL-390 has a line in. A stereo line in...This puppy hooks to the Ipad with a standard stereo patch cord, one of those two-ended things with a microscopic stereo earphone plug at each end. So it would hook to no matter what thing that has a standard microscopic earphone jack, like your personal stereo (if any self still uses those things) or your MP3 player.Here you have a set of portable stereo speakers that also picks up AM, FM. shortwave, and (for any self in Europe) longwave. Plays stereo on FM too.Not only does it pick them all up, it picks them up WELL. The "Easy Tuning Mode" is primarily nice. You set it to scan no matter what band you're listening to. It makes note of all the listenable signals there are, even on the shortwave broadcast bands. After that, when you turn the tuning knob, it jumps clear indicate to clear indicate, skipping all the spaces in between. Cool!They also make a smaller translation lacking the right side lecturer. I got the larger stereo translation since it has a longer case that gives space for a longer AM mast- and for a miracle, they did in fact put a longer AM mast in it, as a replacement for of the shorter mast of the one lecturer translation. It makes it borderline amazing for AM greeting.Plus it does all the "usual" radio things- it works as an alarm clock, it has more memories presets than I can find use for, and so on.This is a great modest set. Amazon has them for $66 or so. That's not too bad just for a set of speakers, let alone the other facial appearance. Recommended.
- Bill
Austerely put, this is a splendid modest touchtone phone logic. Not release is the signal extremely skilled, agreed the mass of the element, but the built-in facial appearance are helpful and now and again completely startling. I pocket annotation to AM, FM and SW (at night) and am extra than fortunate including the greeting.Extremely impressive for the fee!
- David
I've had this radio for almost a year and it has earned its house alongside the Grundig G5 as one of my favorites. It's a pleasure to use, packs a lot of facial appearance and gives exemplary routine. This radio is well value the fee paid.What I like:Some public have complained that the stereo speakers are too close to be effective. This portable wasn't made to fill a room with signal, rather serve as a personal apparatus that, even as land in your hands, produces decent signal and more than acceptable separation. I prefer speakers over headset in many cases, so having stereo in my hands is a real treat.DSP means splendid FM signal capture. The length of the radio allows for a longer whip and ferrite antenna. On AM, there's very little, if any, noise generated by the radio's electronics. Most important, this radio is very sensitive on all bands. It receives the same amount of AM/FM signals and about 95% of SW signals my G5/3 can receive.A gathering called ETM (easy tune method) allows you to store signals in a temporary memory that keeps your personal memory stations intact. This is a splendid figure for travel, or just considering what's void at fastidious era of the day. It will run owing to the AM / FM bands in 30 seconds, whereas SW force take more than 2 minutes. But it will grab them all and allocate you to tune up and down from one signal to the next.Line In means I can hook this up to my mp3 player, iPad or smart buzz and listen to music owing to the speakers. The speakers have decent mid-range signal that can get reasonably loud. Powers a good set of headset.Batteries can be recharged within the unit via USB, so I can use both a wall plug, in the car or my mainframe.Two minor quirks:I have SSB on the G5, so I don't need it here, but there are two minor quirks that I have issue with. One is that, disparate the Grundig G8 (a DSP radio with wheel reins also made by Tecsun), this radio only facial appearance the slow manual tuning. Even though the ETM figure will capture 99% of void signals, I like to manually tune up and down the dial lacking slow owing to at 1kc at a time.The additional is that the Line-In gathering disables the timer. If I want to fall asleep listening to the mp3 player - I can't set the radio to shut off with a fastidious amount of time.Overall I'm very satisfied with this radio. It's a serious architect that is a lot of fun to use.
- martesque
Pulls in bags of weak stations, extremely skilled feature signal. I use this including receiver at bring about for in this vicinity 30 hours a weeks, and give a new lease of life the batteries ended the weekend... the array indicator is soothe on full as I end the week on Friday day.One insignificant come forth is including the number potential. As I am listening to approximately stations, one click on the number wheel can bump it from being too gentle to being louder than I would be fond of - not everlastingly doable to making fair adjustments (but additional stations look to be fair). The release additional business including the intention of is a cut-rate amount of than exceptional is the addict boundary and blue-collar. I reflect including the intention of all should be practically intuitive; approximately equipment on this touchtone phone logic are, others are not. As I should curve to the blue-collar, I discover it is extremely important and top bolt from the blue. The manner for background the calculate and alarms or switching linking modes may maybe be 100% evident and fixed, but it has approximately quirks.I've release had it for in this vicinity a month, but if it is built to continue, I will be practically fortunate and keen to overlook my criticisms.
- Jonathan
This radio has some of the preeminent FM reception I've always seen starting a portable element thanks to its DSP chip. For DXing or just listening to fringe stations its great. The two speakers put made known plenty of sound and the audio quality is good. It has a pretty large internal ferrite AM antenna so its reception is a lot better than other radios this size. I love the fact that it can scan the band and create presets, this is really helpful for shortwave. The tuning knob is really awkward since it tunes in small increments of single .01 mhz on FM and 1 khz on AM. But you can also enter frequencies directly on the keypad. The volume knob isn't a regular potentiometer, but a knob that adjusts in 30 increments. This can be annoying when listening by way of receiver because one level will be too quiet and the next too loud.I don't think the quality is the preeminent on these. While they feel dense and well built my first element started having issues with the tuning knob not working at all. Luckily Amazon is really easy to deal with. I was able to print a prepaid shipping label and they reimbursed my credit card when they expected it. My second element has been working fine so far. So I'd recommend you get on to sure everything works surrounded by 30 days of buying it. Flush if you can save a few bucks buying starting ebay, etc its worth the peace of mentality getting it here since defective returns are really easy.I'm subdue charitable it four stars because it is biased with features like an alarm timer, line input for MP3 players, ability to charge batteries with a mini-usb promote (not included). It includes a longwire antenna (for shortwave but you can also use the telescoping antenna) and earbuds. And since its small you can take it everywhere with you. Its great for emergencies since it runs off batteries and has such good reception.
- spunker88
Just expected this radio this daylight. Have run it through the bands to get an idea how well it performs. All the bands seem to be very good to me for a radio of this size. The DSP feature allows you to select filtering on all the bands, even if if you like to listen to DX this is a good feature that works very well on this radio. Also this radio has a better domestic mast for MW/LW than it's sister radio's from Tecsun, the PL-310, Pl-380, and PL-606. which gives it a little best sensitivity. Selectivity and social class noise is best on this radio also, which may be a supporter of the soft-mute turned down to a minimum.I must confess the big bolt from the blue of the radio was the great sound of the Stereo FM through the Speakers which belay their size. It is truly amazing, this is a fun radio!I am listening to China SW radio news as I am prose this assess, and it sounds like a good local AM radio station broadcast, this is off the whip mast.This Radio has a only one of its kind scanning feature called EMT which promptly scans the whole band you are listening to, it is very insightful to radio signals and does a good job of upshot even the weak signals, this feature does not impression you saved reminiscence and AMS settings. It can be used to see what frequencies and stations on SW (all bands) are available. This saves time trying to manually upshot stations.Well as you see i an obsessed with this little radio that could!The only con I can think of at the following is when scanning the uncommon bands I noticed a few false frequencies but you can promptly pass right over them.I plan on updating this assess in the possibility, since this is just first impressions.
- Term8r
For less than 60 dollars, I cannot imagine a surpass multiband receiver. In this review, I will compare the Tecsun PL-390 to the PL-360 and PL-660 radios also existing in the Tecsun team of multiband radios. Perhaps other radios will be peppered in to enhance my assess critically.My initially impressions were with the intention of this telephone system is well made and feels sturdier than the PL-390 I had several years past. I was not impressed with the PL-390 I owned in 2010, however, realizing with the intention of Tecsun is constantly improving its team of radios, along with the recent distinguished praise and the Silicon Labs DSP poker chip, I had to yield it another look. I am glad with the intention of I did.Like the PL-360, the ETM and ATS look into facial appearance are excellent if not flawless. For a little more than half the money, the PL-390 outshines its big brother PL-660 as regards the ATS look into feature.In a side-by-side shortwave comparison among the Eton E5 and the Tecsun PL-360 and PL-660, the PL-390 more than held its confess! Only the Sync feature on the PL-660 allowed with the intention of telephone system to pull in and lock on to SW frequencies with the intention of were vanishing in and made known at about 7 P.M. EST here in western Pennsylvania (approx. 40 miles east of Pittsburgh). The PL-390 compared fortunately with the Eton, and readily outperformed the PL-360.On MW it was more of the same. I bought the PL-660 for its Sync feature particularly for MW Dxing at nocturnal and it has been worth each penny. While it was top-of-the-class ended again, the PL-390's 5 bandwidth selectivity options more than held its confess and proved to make the PL-390 much more selective than the E-5. Without any selectivity tools, the PL-360 chop to a very accurate fourth place by and large. I like the PL-390's bandwidth selections a lot. Even on the 1 Kz setting, the sound is easily decipherable. The BW function also works very well on SW.The DSP poker chip makes the PL-390 a top FM architect. Considering with the intention of the ETM/ATS feature on both the PL-390/360 work so much surpass than their big brother, the PL-660, I would more than likely grab any one ahead of the more high-priced flagship of the Tecsun line for an FM listening session. This would be only if I were by earbuds or a nice set of headphones. Even with the twin 2.5 inch speakers, the PL-390 is no competition for the sound of the PL-660's domestic speaker. The 390, however, sounds a great deal surpass than the 360 and perhaps just a crumb less robust than the E-5.All the controls are well laid made known and easy to use, though it does look to take an additional push of the buttons each currently and at that time to perform a function. I like the display, and though I do not reflect it over the financial support of the temperature function at home, I can reflect it over this being a usable feature on a camping trip. I like with the intention of there are dual alarms too.The tuning is positively smooth for a small telephone system and less "touchy" than the PL-660. It offers both a slow and fast tuning option depending on how promptly you spin the dial.By and large, I would rank this telephone system a 5, along with the PL-360 while I would rank the PL-660 a 4.5. While the PL-660 is a great telephone system with the intention of I reflect compares fortunately to my Sony 2010 in Sync manner (Yes, they sound and work very nearly identically), the dreary ATS function forces me to downgrade it slightly. Also, It expense me $109 and I estimate all the functions on a flagship telephone system to work as well, if not surpass, than the radios lower in the hierarchy.Yes, I am recommending the Tecsun PL-390, keep for please have evenhanded expectations. Even with the dual stereo twin speakers set-up, the sound is not opportunity filling. I probably will only listen to this telephone system through a good pair of headphones or earbuds.The PL-390 has been improved and is very sensitive and surprisingly selective even for a telephone system estimate much more. I am very impressed with the new DSP offerings from Tecsun and will take up again to hold their radios in the prospect as long as reliability does not become an come forth. Time will tell. I enjoyed reviewing the PL-390 for you and I hope this review has helped you conduct your due exactness. Please send a comment if you have any further questions with the intention of I could be capable to answer for you.Regards All,Richard
- richard m. griffith
Tecsun PL390 DSP Digital AM/FM/LW Shortwave Radio with Dual Speakers, Black
As the exclusive point,Kaito represent Tecsun in Northern America, and Kaito radios are made by Tecsun too. The Tecsun PL390 is portable worldband receiver with dual speakers. This PLL synthesized receiver picks up a wide range of spreading including AM, FM, longwave & shortwave. To tune into a station, you can use one of the following 5 methods: Tuning knob, Direct keypad entry, memory, ATS tuning & Tecsun's own & unique ETM (Easy Tuning Mode). There are a total of 550 memories available for easy access to your favorite stations.
Combining dual 2.5-inch speakers with DSP (Digital Sound Processing), the PL-390 offers you excellent listing experience with outstanding clarity & high tone quality. The PL-390 also has an line-in jack where you can plug in your MP3 player and use the radio as a portable speaker.
Accessories include stereo earphones, external shortwave antenna, audio cable, carrying pouch, user manual in English & warranty registration card.
Kaito , as the exclusive authorized point of Tecsun Radio in Northern America, we offer benefit from Los Angeles, warranty from USA. Any questions, please call us.
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