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Sangean SR-33CL Radio

$28.00 Est. at Amazon

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it is a great radio for the merely curious as well as the more experienced user who wants a convenient portable.
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no way a real engineer or radio user did this.
from www.amazon.com
the only downside is that manual is not entirely user-friendly nor or all the functions on the radio.
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radio is very user friendly.
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the user interface is the best i've seen on any radio (my sony's interface still confuses me).

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Positives: Great Sound Quality, Good Battery Life, Easy To Use, Tuning: Analog

2 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for USER

Sony Walkman SRF-M37V AM/FM/Weather/TV Radio

$32.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.bestbuy.com
what's great about it:?straight forward, user friendly, great belt clip, put a battery in a go.
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battery life is reputed to be very good, so even heavy users of this product may not find it necessary to purchase rechargeables.
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this is a decent radio for the casual user who just wants to hear music/talk radio without lugging around a larger device.
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the main dissapointment is that there is no seek or scan button- a user has to press the up or down tune buttons(nice small size by the way, for feeling), which causes you to hear alot of static
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rugged, simple design, user-friendly, surprisingly good reception and long performance on a single battery

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Positives: Great Sound Quality, Easy To Use, Great Battery Life, Tuning: Digital

3 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for USER

Sangean DT-120 Radio

$46.00 Est. at Amazon

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the user interface is the best i've seen on any radio (my sony's interface still confuses me).
from www.amazon.com
the only downside is that manual is not entirely user-friendly nor or all the funtions on the radio.
from www.amazon.com
radio is very user friendly.
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no way a real engineer or radio user did this.
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i haven't yet mastered the station pre-sets so i would say that feature is not user friendly.

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Positives: Great Sound Quality, Easy To Use, Great Battery Life, Tuning: Digital

4 RECOMMENDED by 3 people for USER

Sony ICF-SW7600 AM/FM/SW Radio

$173.00 Est. at Amazon

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i know i'm not a kid anymore, but neither are some of the other users, and how hard would it be to use a larger font?
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both have their advantages and it is up to the user to decide which are more important.
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there are numerous pre-set button: perhaps too many and the novice user is at a loss when first using them.
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most of the buttons i figured out without the user manual.

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Positives: Great Sound Quality, Easy To Use, Nice Battery Life, Tuning: Digital

5 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for USER

Sangean DT210V AM/FM/TV Radio

$57.00 Est. at Amazon

from Bob from Omaha, clickfrom.buy.com
realizing by now that small radios with good enough selectivity to reject unwanted harmonics from other stations were a very rare critter, i began a search of user comments on web reviews and was
from www.amazon.com
the only downside is that manual is not entirely user-friendly nor or all the funtions on the radio.
from www.amazon.com
the user interface is the best i've seen on any radio (my sony's interface still confuses me).
from www.amazon.com
radio is very user friendly.
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i haven't yet mastered the station pre-sets so i would say that feature is not user friendly.

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Positives: Great Sound Quality, Easy To Use, High Quality, Design: Pocket

Grundig S350 AM/FM/SW Radio

$95.00 Est. at Amazon

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i am a ham radio operator and users should understand short wave drifts even on radios costing thousands of dollars.
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it is great for users who want to explore the sw bands as well as standard am-fm.
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very user friendly.
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the not-so-good on sw: little is gained thru a decent receiver design if the user can't find or identify a desired station.
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users who are not experienced with shortwave listening are usually shocked by the difficulty with which audible signals are typically obtained.

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Positives: Excellent Battery Life, Easy To Use, Excellent Sound Quality, Tuning: Analog

Kaito KA1101 AM/FM/SW Radio

$53.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i do detect a slight improvement in the 1103 but not enough to make much of a difference for the user.
from www.amazon.com
the consensus of user reviews articulated favorable ratings of this unit, even as superior to its siblings---the more expensive ka1102 and ka1103 (when comparing capabilities note that the ka1101
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the user interface is unintuitive and the manual nearly incomprehensible, although that didn't bother me much.

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Positives: High Quality, Easy To Use, Inexpensive, Tuning: Digital

Freeplay Energy Ranger AM/FM/DAB Radio

$92.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i have been a user of self powered radios for several years now.
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* in my opnion a cluttered user interface, with 19 buttons!
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the freeplay works simply and elegantly, is user friendly, and is better than previous competitors.

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Positives: Excellent Sound Quality, Good Battery Life, Easy To Use, Tuning: Analog

Radio Shack R1605

$5.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
my only caution (and it is only a small caution at that) is to be aware that this particular radio has some ergonomics that some folks might find a bit less than "user friendly".
from www.amazon.com
i found the user manual clearly written.
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quite simply the worst user interface i have ever seen on any device.
from www.amazon.com
getting "trapped" in a band this way isn't much of a problem, but they should make that user-selectable, in my view.

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Positives: Nice Performance, Inexpensive, Easy To Use, Design: Portable

Sangean ATS 909 S

$282.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
the user has the choice of tuning in stations directly with the keypad on the front of the radio, or by using the continuous-tuning knob on the side.
from www.amazon.com
the set is very user-friendly with a number of pre-selected stations already set up.b -- greatfm and am reception for the times you just want to listen to a local radio station or want to fall asleep
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1) the user manual is really very poor in the technical description; it does not even state the "impedance" of the external antenna input.
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and twenty-nine pages of nine presets, each page being titled by the user!
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i have only had my unit for two weeks, but overall i find it to be an excellent and very intuitive and much better sounding radio than the famous sony icf-sw7600gr (which i have also used for over a

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Positives: Great Sound Quality, High Quality, Portable, Design: Portable

Sangean DT-400W Radio

$71.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
in addition, this radio also has the official noaa weather alert detection capability to signal the user of impending weather disasters as well as other problematic situations such as child
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who knows, may be someday sangean would built a dt-500w or so which combine the sound of the dt-210v and all the user friendly functions like the dt-400 or a dsp chip,...

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Positives: Good Sound Quality, Great Battery Life, Easy To Use, Tuning: Digital

Sony XDR-S3HD Radio

$140.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
this is a good-sounding radio but lacks some very important user features.
from www.amazon.com
i did user-review, manufacturer technical spec, and price checking/shopping and then went to stores.
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as far as the alarm clock i have to agree with other users.

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Positives: Nice Sound Quality, Easy To Use, High Quality, Tuning: Digital

Sony XDR-S3HD HD/AM/FM Clock Radio

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this is a good-sounding radio but lacks some very important user features.
from www.amazon.com
i did user-review, manufacturer technical spec, and price checking/shopping and then went to stores.
from www.amazon.com
as far as the alarm clock i have to agree with other users.

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Positives: Good Sound Quality, Easy To Use, High Quality

Sony ICF-38 Radio

$30.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
in modifying this radio, sony should have seen to the one consistent complaint that users made about the icf-36: the headphone output is mono, which means it plays out of only one side of a set of
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you can tell a difference between the two, but i imagine most users will forget about this feature quickly, as it doesn't dramatically alter your listening experience.

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Positives: Good Sound Quality, High Quality, Easy To Use, Tuning: Analog

Grundig Mini 300 S

$29.00 Est. at Amazon

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i am a ham radio operator and users should understand short wave drifts even on radios costing thousands of dollars.
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the user manual is well written and helpful.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Good Sound Quality, High Quality, Tuning: Digital

Sony ICF-S79V FM/Weather/AM/TV Radio

$75.00 Est. at Amazon

from riggshillfarm, www.shopping.com
user friendly.
from www.amazon.com
i'm a big user of amazon reviews prior to making purchases, but frequently there are only one or two people who have reviewed the product i'm considering.
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the reception is good, clear, and it's user friendly.
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it's very user friendly; no complicated directions.

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Positives: Excellent Sound Quality, Easy To Use, High Quality, Tuning: Digital

Kaito KA1121 Radio

$123.00 Est. at Amazon

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to me,there are two main drawbacks:the lcd is too small;and at times the user manual is poorly written.it took me about 4 days to figure out how to set the buttons to selected frequencies,mainly
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-the user manual is awful.
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this may be a wonderful unit but i will never know since i cannot decipher the user's manual.
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thankfully, updated instructions can be downloaded from this radio's product page on kaito's web site, as well as a faq & review from a radio reviewer named art simon-i *highly* recommend viewing his

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Positives: Excellent Performance, Portable, Inexpensive, Tuning: Digital

Kaito KA1102 AM/FM/SW Radio

$63.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i read several reviews before purchasing, so i became familiar with the user interface quirks (e.g.
from shadowcatcher, www.shopping.com
pros: compact, digitally tuned, excellent signal reception, good battery life and features, very good value cons: user interface not always intuitive, some spurious signals on mw, battery
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the user interface could stand some improvements.

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Positives: Excellent Sound Quality, High Quality, Good Performance, Tuning: Digital

Midland Weather/Hazard Radio

$40.00 Est. at Amazon

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this is a great weather radio...but i assumed (like other very similar wx radios)that the user could select which alerts they wished to hear and which alerts they don't.
from www.amazon.com
although i saw user reviews on the web complaining about difficult programming, i found the instructions clear and easy to follow.
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maybe the hardest part of the set-up is for the user to decide which nearby areas and same codes they wish to program to get proper but not too frequent alert warnings.
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programming are user friendly and easy to accomplish.
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i suspect they were written by an engineer because of the presence of unwarranted assumptions such as the one that all users will intuitively understand that a panel button can have more than one

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Positives: Easy To Use, Excellent Battery Life, Inexpensive, Tuning: Digital

Kaito KA1103 S

$70.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
this radio has quirks in user interface, the retro analog bands are simulated and occupies a large part of real estate that makes it hard to grab with one hand if i don't want to grab by the clear
from www.amazon.com
my only caution (and it is only a small caution at that) is to be aware that this particular radio has some ergonomics that some folks might find a bit less than "user friendly".
from www.amazon.com
i found the user manual clearly written.
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quite simply the worst user interface i have ever seen on any device.
from www.amazon.com
getting "trapped" in a band this way isn't much of a problem, but they should make that user-selectable, in my view.

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Positives: Nice Sound Quality, Great Performance, Inexpensive, Tuning: Analog

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