I’m a musician and I build my own speaker cabinets. The heavier a cabinet is, the more clarity comes through the speaker when listening at higher volumes. Lighter housing allows more resonance that interferes with outgoing sound.
Perhaps the chunky steel parts (Three of them? The cube plus two long ones beside the battery?) serve to help prevent speaker-induced vibrations of the radio case and associated audio rattling. Thanks for this tear-down.
Yes I was thinking that. Also, without that extra weight to push down on the rubber feet, I think the radio would move all over the place when it is turned up.
Thanks for this tear down video and analysis. I listened to your video on my ZHiWhis using BT off my IPad. The resonance test made my unit perk up…😂! I bought my ZhiWhis ZWS-AF320 back in August of 2023 which is supposed to allow you to record on the radio without using the app. Unfortunately, all my SD cards are backing up my extra data or are used in my SBCs. Although SW is a mixed bag, FM,Aircraft and Weather band were decent. Surprisingly, the MW picks up stations I heard in years at night,especially when paired with my Trek advantage Loop antenna. The telescopic whip is really flimsy so be carful when attaching the provided extension antenna. I just wish they would have put the telescopic whip antenna that is on my ATS-120 radio. Well 73 and have a great day!
Yes, the radio is pretty decent for the price, considering the other features that are packed in. One evening, I managed to receive Radio Turkey in Singapore, inside an apartment, and without an external antenna. Yes, the whip is flimsy, although I think the very thinnest part is designed to be flexible. You have a great day too!
I recently bought this on Amazon of course under a different name called " Jazmm" for $67 US. I noticed some of these models have a hard-wired battery, but some are removable. I love these tears down videos by the way. There was a rumor that a future model will have SSB features.
This is a very interesting radio, mine arrived a couple of days back and I've had a bit of fun playing with it. One feature the instructions dont fully explain and its not detailed in the instructions is the NBFM and the range of 30MHz to 199.95MHz. Listening and comparing the results on the radio ham bands, I have found the receiver a little deaf on 6m and 2m. Broadcast FM seems lively enough. But back to the NBFM, I found listening to a reasonably nearby 6m repeater was almost impossible inside the house, I could occasionally, comparing it to the same repeater on a 6m Yaesu FT690 hear the odd words as I moved the radio around, the 690 picked up the same repeater very noisily but slightly better. I had in my junk box one of these cheap 0.1 to 2,000MHz preamps and did a quick lash up to the radio, connecting it to where the telescopic antenna was connected. The results were quite impressive, certainly very close to the same level as the Yaesu transceiver. Adding an external antenna socket wouldnt hurt, possibly a 3.5mm mono jack (switched?) I suspect though that with the level of amplification used, it wouldnt be a bad idea to have some form of low pass filtering. My next idea was to add a BFO for SSB for the ham bands, any mods I try to do in such a way that it looks as if the mod was intended to be there in the first place. A simple Colpitts oscillator that is varactor tuned will allow me to use a variable resistor with an edge knob mounted in a slot on the join of the case. Oh, and that LED light that is next to useless and very dim, that will get a better Cob fitted. Its a nice receiver that can be made much better.
Thanks for the informative comment John. I wonder if you could fit that preamp inside the case somewhere. There is some room around the speaker. The BFO would be interesting to see also. Have fun with it!
That was a good features demo, teardown, performance and all things comparative to the actual specs if I may say and there's hardly anyone aside from yourself that gets down to some of the nitty gritty of some of these radio builds. I am viewing your channel content for the first time and it was well worth my time and I can appreciate all of your time going through the motions with good ease and clearly understood most of what makes up of this radio build, topology and layout. As for that block of metal that you found: The location of it is 1.) It is situated diagonally across from the speaker magnet for starters. 2.) It is purposely and firmly planted and has a specific density and mass to help dampen cabinet vibrations for perhaps two reasons. As with some honing in and a listening device that Bluetooth capabilities which can be an sob, such as a possible spying type apparatus, such as to monitor communications that take place remotely or from afar, such a feature can be viewed as a COMSEC bad; very bad. And so for the phone app usage as well, to boot, you wouldn't really know whether data packets are being transmitted back to China via WiFi; especially if once the app is fired up on the phone is sending information back to Mother China. You really wouldn't know for sure since most if all that the CCP wants to listen in on, ALL of communications that support their spying apparatuses U.S. Allied Countries, you name it!!! Case and point with the DJI drones in their spying operations (NO JOKE) but an absolute fact....each and every time that you fire up their app, your phone device phones home to the CCP, such as to ask permission for the DJI drones to operate AND data packets as such things as location, mapping, time, aerial views, altitude; you name it, is recorded and packets forwarding take place. The common person does not know this and this type of spying presents a HUGE security risk for all nations!!! This was discovered by us folks here in the states by the U.S. Airforce. Another example would be all these bluetooth enabled smart watch /activity trackers that the troops were wearing while on duty around our military duty stations back in the states also!!! Hells Bells, even the built in microphone if it is so equipped can clearly pickup and further exemplify radio monitoring clear as a bell and hardly short of having unwanted vibration out of the ordinary and record audio and retain those audio clips and converted digitally as saved audio data that can be passed on by handing it off via bluetooth if this receiver is so equipped with transmitter and receiver. Sophistication in spying technology has no real limits in this day and age and China is so damned slick about it that it isn't even funny!!!@@ElectroBananasYT
@@fiendishthingy1630 Sure, maybe, but who am I to really say, but I get it! Damn, you're kind of picky with the sleuthing and word smithing, so I suppose that this is what makes you rather fiendish in the first place! Fiendish right from the get-go and yet thingy! I have always detested any such language that is to be used, calling a object....a thingy, both in the military and on the outside!! When a person cannot name that item, apparatus, object, machinery, vehicle, electronic creation OR otherwise, do NOT call it a thingy!!! I had a Sgt. in the military that barely had ANY horse sense to begin with, that tried to tell me my business, when I could run circles around him twice daily and three times on Sunday that served with me that would constantly say thingy and so I busted his balls every chance that I could get, because this is not a true sign of good sound, reasonable intelligence, especially when some people can try just a little bit harder than that; when using descriptive language! So yeah, this is when I get to bust on you! Back right at yah, pal! Hey now, just try and also think up a different handle to go by on UA-cam and be more original next time around and not in absolute secrecy or trying to hide your name if you will please, because that handle of yours really just doesn't suit you that well!!
Hi - great teardown and analysis. I've had this (Raddy RF320) for a couple weeks now. I'm mostly happy with the AM (MW), FM and shortwave performance. On VHF, I'm getting some local FM broadcast breaking through at 1/3 the nominal freq (eg a station at 96.3 MHz showing up on VHF at around 33 MHz approx), and also at 2x the nominal (eg the above also showing up at 192 or so MHz). Otherwise, narrowband VHF reception is ok but not stellar. And finally, my RF320 is deaf on the airbands, while my Quansheng UV-K5 brings in several of them with no problem. How was your reception of the air band?
Incredible video that you've done here. And thank you much. It really caught my eye when I recognized it as the same radio that I purchased a couple months ago. I must say that I did not open my radio but I am very impressed with how well I like the radio. It is packed with some amazing features for no more than its size. Soon I'm going to build a better shortwave antenna externally from my home. I will probably just use an alligator clip to connect to the telescopic antenna and then I will probably draw the ground off of one of the auxiliary jacks . Again thank you for your video and I will share it. I will also endorsed this radio as being an excellent choice for a prepper radio and for its value. You did a good job in showing that this radio is well built. Again thank you and I will be watching more of your videos.
Thank you very much for the kind comment, glad you found the video useful. Yes the radio is great fun and sounds great for the size of the enclosure. I am making a video on how to make a DIY loop antenna also. Hope to release in the next couple of weeks.
@@ElectroBananasYT OK, cool . I actually just saw that doing my own research going to the Raddy site. I almost impulse bought the other brands which have the battery not changeable. These little things make a difference. Convenience and ease of use are the main selling point for me . Thanks !
I was hooked as soon as I saw you open the package and started tearing into the radio without even putting in the battery and turning it on...Good job mate. I'm a new subscriber...Do you think it would pay to try and replace the speaker with a better one??? Sometimes decent radios come with such a cheap speaker, and I wonder if a more expensive "full range" 51mm/2in speaker would be considered an upgrade? As I also own this feature rich radio, and wonder if it would be worth the trouble.
Hello, thank you very much for your comment :). Actually I don't think the speaker is too bad. I thought that the frequency response of the speaker is really good. The magnet is a bit on the small side, but as you would know, the bass is already good. Well if you do change it, I would be interested to know how much of a difference it makes.
Hey Bryan, thanks for your comment. Yes I think the extra weight helps to stop it walking off, also to provide damping and lower the resonant frequency of the back panel of the case, a bit like the black stuff they attach to the underside of metal sinks 😅
já cheguei dando uma voadora no like, você conseguiu me convenser a comprar este ráido, parabéns pelo excelente trabalho, que DEUS continue lhe abençoando todos os dias.
Muito obrigado pelo seu comentário gentil. Fico muito feliz que você achou o vídeo útil. Você viu meu outro vídeo sobre a modificação para adicionar uma entrada de antena? Espero que você aproveite seu novo rádio 😊
@@ElectroBananasYT eu vi sim, espetacular é uma aula, pena que eu não tenho o conhecimento que você tem para melhorar a captação do sinal, assim que eu receber o meu rádio, eu volto aqui para lhe informar.
Certo, ótimo. Eu planejo fazer um vídeo mostrando como melhorar a recepção de ondas curtas usando componentes reciclados simples e sem ferramentas especiais ou solda. Só preciso encontrar tempo...
It would have been nice for the air band side of this radio to have placed a copper coil. So that it does not receive AM broadcast radio stations. The copper strand could have been separated for the air band stations to come in properly .
Hi, thanks for your comment. By copper coil I presume you mean shielding? Where I live we don’t have any AM stations, so did not experience any issues with Airband.
Great video! would love to see the antenna mod video, one question will the LG MJ1 INR 18650 3500mAh 3.7V High-Drain 10A Lithium Ion (Li-ion) battery work in this radio or will the Max Continuous Discharge Rate of 10A, damage the radio?
As long as it fits, the battery will be fine. The radio will only draw the current that it needs, so the max discharge rate will make no difference. I am releasing another video today that shows you how to fit the external antenna mod :)
Thank you for the comment. Glad you liked the video. As the extra metal is heavy, we are thinking it is there to stop the radio from 'walking off' when played loud as it vibrates a and can move on some surfaces.
Yes I think you could be right there. May also be to acoustically dampen the cabinet to reduce vibrations or to stop it dancing around when the bass is up!
@@ElectroBananasYT Yes I would say the weights are there to dampen cabinet resonances. Actually shows that they were trying to make a good sounding radio. I was really surprised to see you get right to taking it apart. Thought at least you would put the battery in and turn it on first!
Thanks for your comment Phoebus. Yes, perhaps I should have tested it first. Much to my parents dismay, from a young age I have always had a habit of taking things apart to see how they worked! Old habits die hard.
@@ElectroBananasYTFunny, i did the same thing as a kid. My problem was I usually moved on to the next thing that caught my attention before putting the last thing back together and they weren't mine to start with. I used to get in so much trouble, I'd hear my mom call out my name and I'd just go oh crap! I still like taking things apart, but mostly now to make them better. I just ordered one of these little radio and thanks to your video I think I can resist taking it apart for a while.
I thought that too. But I think the real reason is to stop it vibrating all over the place. The bass is quite powerful and without extra weight it goes exploring! 😅
Hello Levi, thanks for your comment. It will scan through the air band (118 to 138MHz) but it just stops on a signal. Can't seem to find a way to automatically store. Have you seen my video on adding an antenna socket to this radio? 73
Have you come across the quansheng uv-k5 family of walkie talkies that are super cheap and can easily be converted with a software download to create a great scanner and radio? There are many videos on this radio. 73 ElectroBananas ua-cam.com/video/vmJau8i-hYc/v-deo.htmlsi=CAXQsELKfyUF4I3b
@@ElectroBananasYT Yes, a friend of mine has the Quangshen, and it is working all modes (incl.SSB) between 14-1798Mhz, (with a mod) its a beast! - but i have a Baofeng UV17BK for VHF and UHF, (amateur) so i am ok, it is actually the HF bands that interests me mostly! - AND i must say, i JUST got myself an ATS25X1 for the HF bands! - that is also a heck of a receiver! 73 Levi
I just received my Raddy RF320 radio. Being VERY new to SWL Al the buttons are as foreign as the one who wrote the instructions. When a foreigner tries to write an English text they write the meanings and descriptions in the manner that their home speech directs them. They do not know and understand the nuances of the English language. An American who speaks the manufacturers language should write the manuals. Particularly in instances such as this, where the product is not designed for the experienced SW Listener/operator who knows about band designations and all the symbols on these radios. It took me over an hour to figure out how to set my clock on the Raddy. It is fun when learning is not a brain swelling process. Tedium is not my favorite cuppa tea. Eventually I will figure this bugger out.
I’m a musician and I build my own speaker cabinets. The heavier a cabinet is, the more clarity comes through the speaker when listening at higher volumes. Lighter housing allows more resonance that interferes with outgoing sound.
Thank you very much for the comment, that is interesting to know :)
Perhaps the chunky steel parts (Three of them? The cube plus two long ones beside the battery?) serve to help prevent speaker-induced vibrations of the radio case and associated audio rattling.
Thanks for this tear-down.
Yes I was thinking that. Also, without that extra weight to push down on the rubber feet, I think the radio would move all over the place when it is turned up.
Thanks for this tear down video and analysis. I listened to your video on my ZHiWhis using BT off my IPad. The resonance test made my unit perk up…😂!
I bought my ZhiWhis ZWS-AF320 back in August of 2023 which is supposed to allow you to record on the radio without using the app. Unfortunately, all my SD cards are backing up my extra data or are used in my SBCs.
Although SW is a mixed bag, FM,Aircraft and Weather band were decent. Surprisingly, the MW picks up stations I heard in years at night,especially when paired with my Trek advantage Loop antenna. The telescopic whip is really flimsy so be carful when attaching the provided extension antenna. I just wish they would have put the telescopic whip antenna that is on my ATS-120 radio.
Well 73 and have a great day!
Yes, the radio is pretty decent for the price, considering the other features that are packed in. One evening, I managed to receive Radio Turkey in Singapore, inside an apartment, and without an external antenna. Yes, the whip is flimsy, although I think the very thinnest part is designed to be flexible. You have a great day too!
Nice, clean, no-nonsense technical teardown and analysis. Thanks for the effort and review.
Thank you very much
Love the clear and detailed style, please keep these coming!! 👏👏
Thank you very much! Yes, more to come in this space :-)
I recently bought this on Amazon of course under a different name called " Jazmm" for $67 US. I noticed some of these models have a hard-wired battery, but some are removable. I love these tears down videos by the way. There was a rumor that a future model will have SSB features.
Hi Phil, thanks for the comment. Glad you liked the video and hope you like the radio. Yet another brand to add to the list!
This is a very interesting radio, mine arrived a couple of days back and I've had a bit of fun playing with it. One feature the instructions dont fully explain and its not detailed in the instructions is the NBFM and the range of 30MHz to 199.95MHz. Listening and comparing the results on the radio ham bands, I have found the receiver a little deaf on 6m and 2m. Broadcast FM seems lively enough. But back to the NBFM, I found listening to a reasonably nearby 6m repeater was almost impossible inside the house, I could occasionally, comparing it to the same repeater on a 6m Yaesu FT690 hear the odd words as I moved the radio around, the 690 picked up the same repeater very noisily but slightly better. I had in my junk box one of these cheap 0.1 to 2,000MHz preamps and did a quick lash up to the radio, connecting it to where the telescopic antenna was connected. The results were quite impressive, certainly very close to the same level as the Yaesu transceiver. Adding an external antenna socket wouldnt hurt, possibly a 3.5mm mono jack (switched?) I suspect though that with the level of amplification used, it wouldnt be a bad idea to have some form of low pass filtering. My next idea was to add a BFO for SSB for the ham bands, any mods I try to do in such a way that it looks as if the mod was intended to be there in the first place. A simple Colpitts oscillator that is varactor tuned will allow me to use a variable resistor with an edge knob mounted in a slot on the join of the case. Oh, and that LED light that is next to useless and very dim, that will get a better Cob fitted. Its a nice receiver that can be made much better.
Thanks for the informative comment John. I wonder if you could fit that preamp inside the case somewhere. There is some room around the speaker. The BFO would be interesting to see also. Have fun with it!
The LED lamp was very good on mine. Perhaps you had a bad one?
That was a good features demo, teardown, performance and all things comparative to the actual specs
if I may say and there's hardly anyone aside from yourself that gets down to some of the nitty gritty of
some of these radio builds. I am viewing your channel content for the first time and it was well worth my
time and I can appreciate all of your time going through the motions with good ease and clearly understood
most of what makes up of this radio build, topology and layout. As for that block of metal that you found:
The location of it is 1.) It is situated diagonally across from the speaker magnet for starters. 2.) It is purposely
and firmly planted and has a specific density and mass to help dampen cabinet vibrations for perhaps two
reasons. As with some honing in and a listening device that Bluetooth capabilities which can be an sob, such
as a possible spying type apparatus, such as to monitor communications that take place remotely or from
afar, such a feature can be viewed as a COMSEC bad; very bad. And so for the phone app usage as well, to boot,
you wouldn't really know whether data packets are being transmitted back to China via WiFi; especially if once
the app is fired up on the phone is sending information back to Mother China. You really wouldn't know for sure
since most if all that the CCP wants to listen in on, ALL of communications that support their spying apparatuses
U.S. Allied Countries, you name it!!! Case and point with the DJI drones in their spying operations (NO JOKE) but
an absolute fact....each and every time that you fire up their app, your phone device phones home to the CCP,
such as to ask permission for the DJI drones to operate AND data packets as such things as location, mapping,
time, aerial views, altitude; you name it, is recorded and packets forwarding take place. The common person
does not know this and this type of spying presents a HUGE security risk for all nations!!! This was discovered by
us folks here in the states by the U.S. Airforce. Another example would be all these bluetooth enabled smart watch
/activity trackers that the troops were wearing while on duty around our military duty stations back in the states also!!! Hells Bells, even the built in microphone if it is so equipped can clearly pickup and further exemplify radio
monitoring clear as a bell and hardly short of having unwanted vibration out of the ordinary and record audio and
retain those audio clips and converted digitally as saved audio data that can be passed on by handing it off via
bluetooth if this receiver is so equipped with transmitter and receiver. Sophistication in spying technology has no
real limits in this day and age and China is so damned slick about it that it isn't even funny!!!@@ElectroBananasYT
@@craigtegeler4677 - You mean "case in point".
@@fiendishthingy1630 Sure, maybe, but who am I to really say, but I get it! Damn, you're kind of picky with the sleuthing and word smithing, so I suppose that this is what makes you rather fiendish in the first place! Fiendish right from the get-go and yet thingy! I have always detested any such language that is to be used, calling a object....a thingy, both in the military and on the outside!! When a person cannot name that item, apparatus, object, machinery, vehicle, electronic creation OR otherwise, do NOT call it a thingy!!! I had a Sgt. in the military that barely had ANY horse sense to begin with, that tried to tell me my business, when I could run circles around him twice daily and three times on Sunday that served with me that would constantly say thingy and so I busted his balls every chance that I could get, because this is not a true sign of good sound, reasonable intelligence, especially when some people can try just a little bit harder than that; when using descriptive language! So yeah, this is when I get to bust on you! Back right at yah, pal! Hey now, just try and also think up a different handle to go by on UA-cam and be more original next time around and not in absolute secrecy or trying to hide your name if you will please, because that handle of yours really just doesn't suit you that well!!
Hi - great teardown and analysis. I've had this (Raddy RF320) for a couple weeks now. I'm mostly happy with the AM (MW), FM and shortwave performance. On VHF, I'm getting some local FM broadcast breaking through at 1/3 the nominal freq (eg a station at 96.3 MHz showing up on VHF at around 33 MHz approx), and also at 2x the nominal (eg the above also showing up at 192 or so MHz). Otherwise, narrowband VHF reception is ok but not stellar. And finally, my RF320 is deaf on the airbands, while my Quansheng UV-K5 brings in several of them with no problem. How was your reception of the air band?
Hello, thanks for your comment, much appreciated. Yes I found the same issues on VHF.
Incredible video that you've done here. And thank you much. It really caught my eye when I recognized it as the same radio that I purchased a couple months ago. I must say that I did not open my radio but I am very impressed with how well I like the radio. It is packed with some amazing features for no more than its size. Soon I'm going to build a better shortwave antenna externally from my home. I will probably just use an alligator clip to connect to the telescopic antenna and then I will probably draw the ground off of one of the auxiliary jacks . Again thank you for your video and I will share it. I will also endorsed this radio as being an excellent choice for a prepper radio and for its value. You did a good job in showing that this radio is well built. Again thank you and I will be watching more of your videos.
Thank you very much for the kind comment, glad you found the video useful. Yes the radio is great fun and sounds great for the size of the enclosure. I am making a video on how to make a DIY loop antenna also. Hope to release in the next couple of weeks.
@@ElectroBananasYT awesome and I'll be looking forward to that
Very well done. Thankyou.RON Z. WA3090SWL
Thank you Ronald
Skipped the most important part... Battery replacement ... how ? It seems the other brands have the battery permanently in there. Was this different ?
Hello. The battery in this model is just a regular 18650. Just as easy to replace as an AA battery. You can see it in the video at the 06:29 mark.
@@ElectroBananasYT OK, cool . I actually just saw that doing my own research going to the Raddy site. I almost impulse bought the other brands which have the battery not changeable. These little things make a difference. Convenience and ease of use are the main selling point for me . Thanks !
I know a lot about the A320, if anyone has specific questions, they can ask me.
Is it possible to record on the fly what is playing on the micro SD card please ?
I was hooked as soon as I saw you open the package and started tearing into the radio without even putting in the battery and turning it on...Good job mate. I'm a new subscriber...Do you think it would pay to try and replace the speaker with a better one??? Sometimes decent radios come with such a cheap speaker, and I wonder if a more expensive "full range" 51mm/2in speaker would be considered an upgrade? As I also own this feature rich radio, and wonder if it would be worth the trouble.
Hello, thank you very much for your comment :). Actually I don't think the speaker is too bad. I thought that the frequency response of the speaker is really good. The magnet is a bit on the small side, but as you would know, the bass is already good. Well if you do change it, I would be interested to know how much of a difference it makes.
Like to add that maybe it's there to keep the speaker in place during bassy music. It's tends to walk.
Hey Bryan, thanks for your comment. Yes I think the extra weight helps to stop it walking off, also to provide damping and lower the resonant frequency of the back panel of the case, a bit like the black stuff they attach to the underside of metal sinks 😅
já cheguei dando uma voadora no like, você conseguiu me convenser a comprar este ráido, parabéns pelo excelente trabalho, que DEUS continue lhe abençoando todos os dias.
Muito obrigado pelo seu comentário gentil. Fico muito feliz que você achou o vídeo útil. Você viu meu outro vídeo sobre a modificação para adicionar uma entrada de antena? Espero que você aproveite seu novo rádio 😊
@@ElectroBananasYT eu vi sim, espetacular é uma aula, pena que eu não tenho o conhecimento que você tem para melhorar a captação do sinal, assim que eu receber o meu rádio, eu volto aqui para lhe informar.
Certo, ótimo. Eu planejo fazer um vídeo mostrando como melhorar a recepção de ondas curtas usando componentes reciclados simples e sem ferramentas especiais ou solda. Só preciso encontrar tempo...
@@ElectroBananasYT show de bola
Ver nice Review .
Thank you! I see you have an awesome channel, subscribed straight away :-)
It would have been nice for the air band side of this radio to have placed a copper coil. So that it does not receive AM broadcast radio stations. The copper strand could have been separated for the air band stations to come in properly .
Hi, thanks for your comment. By copper coil I presume you mean shielding? Where I live we don’t have any AM stations, so did not experience any issues with Airband.
Great video! would love to see the antenna mod video, one question will the LG MJ1 INR 18650 3500mAh 3.7V High-Drain 10A Lithium Ion (Li-ion) battery work in this radio or will the Max Continuous Discharge Rate of 10A, damage the radio?
As long as it fits, the battery will be fine. The radio will only draw the current that it needs, so the max discharge rate will make no difference. I am releasing another video today that shows you how to fit the external antenna mod :)
I found a 9500 mah 18650 battery and it works excellent. It seems that it never goes dead.
Thank you for the feedback. That is a very high capacity, I will have to look out for one 👍👍
Hello what a great review. Perhaps the extra metal is some type of shielding would be my guess. Ron z.WA3090SWL.
Thank you for the comment. Glad you liked the video. As the extra metal is heavy, we are thinking it is there to stop the radio from 'walking off' when played loud as it vibrates a and can move on some surfaces.
I'm pretty sure it's probably to make it heavier than it really is so it feels more expensive or something like that it's a nice looking radio🤔🤔🤔🤔
Yes I think you could be right there. May also be to acoustically dampen the cabinet to reduce vibrations or to stop it dancing around when the bass is up!
@@ElectroBananasYT actually that could also be correct as it has bouncy bass mentioned on that could be the reason for the extra metal weight
@@ElectroBananasYT Yes I would say the weights are there to dampen cabinet resonances. Actually shows that they were trying to make a good sounding radio. I was really surprised to see you get right to taking it apart. Thought at least you would put the battery in and turn it on first!
Thanks for your comment Phoebus. Yes, perhaps I should have tested it first. Much to my parents dismay, from a young age I have always had a habit of taking things apart to see how they worked! Old habits die hard.
@@ElectroBananasYTFunny, i did the same thing as a kid. My problem was I usually moved on to the next thing that caught my attention before putting the last thing back together and they weren't mine to start with. I used to get in so much trouble, I'd hear my mom call out my name and I'd just go oh crap! I still like taking things apart, but mostly now to make them better. I just ordered one of these little radio and thanks to your video I think I can resist taking it apart for a while.
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😅 You could be right there!!!
You are so professional, can you disassemble LIJIANI RD239?
Thank you! I could but the radio does not seem to have anything particularly interesting about it. So not worth it I’m afraid.
They put a weight in it to make it heavier so it doesn't feel so cheap.
I thought that too. But I think the real reason is to stop it vibrating all over the place. The bass is quite powerful and without extra weight it goes exploring! 😅
Guarantees We Don’t
Need No Guarantees😂😂😂
Ha ha! I can’t help it, I just need to find out what is inside!
can the airband be searched automatically and also store the frequncies automantically, i thinking of getting it, 73 Levi in sweden
Hello Levi, thanks for your comment. It will scan through the air band (118 to 138MHz) but it just stops on a signal. Can't seem to find a way to automatically store. Have you seen my video on adding an antenna socket to this radio? 73
@@ElectroBananasYT Hi! and tnx for answer, i will hold up the buy of this radio for so long, i will take a peak on your clip! 73, Levi
Have you come across the quansheng uv-k5 family of walkie talkies that are super cheap and can easily be converted with a software download to create a great scanner and radio? There are many videos on this radio. 73 ElectroBananas
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@@ElectroBananasYT Yes, a friend of mine has the Quangshen, and it is working all modes (incl.SSB) between 14-1798Mhz, (with a mod) its a beast! - but i have a Baofeng UV17BK for VHF and UHF, (amateur) so i am ok, it is actually the HF bands that interests me mostly! - AND i must say, i JUST got myself an ATS25X1 for the HF bands! - that is also a heck of a receiver! 73 Levi
@@ElectroBananasYT Will get myself an pure AIR scanner later, my wallet is at the moment very thin!! :D
Brilliant
Thank you. It was fun making that video. Thanks for watching 😊
Are you outside next to a street? Quite loud atmospheric sounds although nice!
Yes there a street outside. Well I am glad you like it! Thanks for the feed back, will try and reduce it next time.
Это кубик магнита чтоб вешать радио на холодильник. У меня есть такой магнит в фонаре. Удобно
Хорошая идея, однако этот кубик не магнитный. Я думаю, это просто груз, чтобы предотвратить дрожание радио при громком звуке.
14:17 Hand Held Gravitas?
What a use ?
I just received my Raddy RF320 radio. Being VERY new to SWL Al the buttons are as foreign as the one who wrote the instructions. When a foreigner tries to write an English text they write the meanings and descriptions in the manner that their home speech directs them. They do not know and understand the nuances of the English language. An American who speaks the manufacturers language should write the manuals. Particularly in instances such as this, where the product is not designed for the experienced SW Listener/operator who knows about band designations and all the symbols on these radios. It took me over an hour to figure out how to set my clock on the Raddy. It is fun when learning is not a brain swelling process. Tedium is not my favorite cuppa tea. Eventually I will figure this bugger out.
Welcome to SWL! Hope you are having fun on your learning journey! Thanks for watching 😊
What is the function app you are using?
Hello John, the app is called EE Toolkit. I paid for the pro version. Actually use it quite a lot.
I've tried emailing you a few days ago
Hi John, I have not received any email.