Product Descriptionportable AM/FM/aircraft band/shortwave radio * numeric keypad for direct station entry * stores up to 700 stations with 4-character station naming * international digital clock with 3 programmable alarms * protective carrying pouch *
What Others Say
Great features for a sub $100.00 radio
I have been using the radio for several days and here are my obsverations.
I purchased the radio for the aircraft band as I live about 10 miles from DFW airport. I have been able to listen to the aircraft as well as the control towers. Some aircraft frequencies come in great, the towers less so. All are however listenable. There is some bleed over into the aircraft band as is to be expected but not so much as to make it annoying.
You can pick up all of the major shortwave stations with no problem. Normal AM and FM reception is fine.
I find the SSB reception to be poor at best. You can select SSB mode but not USB or LSB. Tuning is done through the use of the tuning knob. If you are looking for SSB reception, ... Read More
An unbeatable value
I've owned this radio since it was first introduced and I've owned maybe 30 or 40 portable shortwave radios over the past couple of decades. I find this little unit to be a great value BUT only if you're looking for the feature set offered. Obviously if you don't care about aviation traffic or SSB, you could do a lot better for the money. BUT in my experience there aren't any better value radios out there at this price point that do it all better.
The aviation band is just so-so in terms of sensitivity and overload protection from broadcast AM but I find the SSB remarkable. SSB signals are easily found with the fast dial speed and easily tuned in to "listenable" frequencies with the slow speed setting.
Over Priced for Preformance
The Grundig G6 has a very nice feature set and is a very convenient size. The display is very informative and the radio is fairly easy to use, especially given all that it does. However, one buys a multiband radio like this to actually listen to it. Its performance overall is not in keeping with the $100 price point. Much better performing radio's are available at or below this price point.
My sample had significant overloading on the lower shortwave bands from local AM broadcast stations. Shortwave performance was ohterwise ok, but the unit was not as sensitive as other radios in this price range. Adding even a short external wire antenna of 15 feet only made the overloading worse. A major plus was it's SSB tuning performance ... ... Read More
Good Fun Radio, but you can find cheaper....
I ordered this radio looking for something that would have a little more sophistication than my Kaito KA11. I like this radio, but in my experience it received the same stations off the whip antenna that my KA11 (a radio that costs half as much) received with a piece of copper wire strung off its whip. With an external antenna, the G6 was overloaded, showing full signal on nearly every station and getting a lot of static, noise and bleeding of other bands.
The air band had the same AM bleed that other reviewers describe. When I did get airband, I thought that it was boring. Obviously that's not the radio's fault, but it ended up being a feature that I would never use. The radio also has SSB but I couldn't find anything over the entire band ... Read More
Small radio returned as defective
This small radio looked good, but soon began to turn itself off shortly after being started, and the volume failed to go beyond a very low level. These problems existed on both battery and AC power. After a phone call with the manufacturer, it is being returned this morning to Amazon as defective, and will be replaced, we hope with better luck.
