XHDATA D-808 Portable Digital Radio FM stereo/SW/MW/LW SSB RDS Air Band Multi Band Radio Speaker with LCD Display Alarm Clock External Antenna

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Secondly, this one is even more deaf on LW than the old one, it’s picking up sensitivity 100kHz higher around 400kHz, so the NDB band is deaf on this one too. If XHDATA were to re-design the 808, the most improvements one would hope for are obvious: a newer and faster DSP chip to speed up mode changes, a jack for external recording.

You’re right though, for the money, the Eton “Grundig Edition” Satellit is much more capable and it gets my recommendation.It’s up to you to weigh the advantages of each to find your personal favorite, the D-808 struggled a bit to become mine but at the end I couldn’t help enjoying this little radio a lot. I thought it coincided with disabling the BEEP “feature”, but turning it back on doesn’t change anything. Intermodulation products seem to show up most prominently around 7MHz, 10MHz and in the 15m ham band first. But I could occasionally decipher some words on the Tecsun that didn’t make it through the noise on the D-808. Well first off, I didn’t charge it yet and it didn’t drain the battery visibly over night, but given that the battery indicator has only 3 bars this can be hard to spot.

The backlight is objectionably bright on the D-808, the upside is that it serves well as a reading light and the light reflected off your hand can illuminate the buttons sufficiently to substitute the missing button lighting. Additional years ago, I used receivers such as SONY SW-55s and Panasonic RF-B65s in ocean side DXing. To give you an idea on what I mean by “no compromises”: my companion on today’s walk was NY2PO from upstate NY (3,728mi/6,000km away) on 40m, constantly coming in with a signal allowing for convenient listening, despite the bad conditions (SFI=68 A=10). Hello Dear Friends, I have a question on XHDATA D-808 preset scrolling possibility with the tuning knob or up and down buttons?In FM mode the stereo separation was very successful, I was able to get quite full and satisfying listening. lithium type batteries with limited run time, which may not be a good choice for DXers who need long endurance out in the field.

These days, with the number of stations on the air reduced even further, examples like this may be fewer and farther between. My ham/DX friend (and SWling contributor) RTC turned me on to the 14” PK loop LW antenna, and it has really changed the game for me. The internal (and very slow changing) thermometer of the D-808 indicated an internal temperature drop of 12°C within 10 minutes and if there was a drift at all, it drifted less than 10Hz.

Based upon the essential concepts of DXing skill, propagation knowledge and perseverance, the human factor is critical for success in pocket radio DXing, unlike with computer-controlled listening. I always try new receivers at my favourite listening post at the (German) North Sea shore, many of you know how beneficial such a location is for DXing. I noticed that when I turned down the volume to the minimum, there is a hissing background noise present on all bands, (esp. Received 4 weeks later – upon power up the display was defective – every other line on the display was out. One of the unique advantages of Ultralight Radio DXing is the opportunity to sample the latest in innovative technology at a very reasonable cost—and the five pocket radio models chosen for this review include some second-generation DSP chip models with astonishing capabilities.

I imagine a SONY ICF-SW7600GR would have done a good job as well, but it too does not have the multiple bandwidth options that a D-808 has. So it beats my other radios there and it’s currently the only (portable) radio that lets me conveniently monitor our local airstrip’s changed “Info” frequency, which is now only one channel above a busy Bremen radar frequency. The D-808’s 3 7/8″ (98mm) loopstick is shown adjacent to the 2 3/4″ (70mm) loopstick of the CC Skywave models.Mind you, even if you’re in Europe there are not many stations anymore and the remaining ones are prone to get closed as well sooner or later. For comparison, the heavier (and more expensive) 2,500mAh Ni-MH batteries in my PL-660 last for 24 hours only. This entry was posted in New Products, News, Radios, Shortwave Radio and tagged AR-1780, Digitech, Digitech AR-1780, Digitech AR-1780 Internal Photos, Radio Internal Photos, XHDATA, XHDATA D-808, XHDATA D-808 Internal Photos on January 18, 2018 by Thomas. So get ready for some exciting introductions… and an even more exciting four band DXing competition!