Category Archives: Radio

Radio Collecting and listening

Goodwill Radio

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Kevin

Goodwill Industries locations locations may participate in the national ShopGoodwill auction site and route collectible, vintage or specialty electronics (such as shortwave radios, ham gear, or high-end audio equipment) to the online marketplace rather than selling at retail locations. Sales … Continue reading →

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Look ma, the DX-286 got batteries!

Posted on December 10, 2025 by Kevin

It’s no big deal for me since I have a pile of 18650 batteries, but reading anecdotes on the Internet leads me to think procuring them is a problem for some folks. Initially, the DX-286 was sold without batteries. Then … Continue reading →

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Santa’s Nice Radio list for 2025

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Kevin

Unlike my “Top Ten Portable Shortwave Radios for 2025,” these are not necessarily the best you can buy, but ones that I think bring something worthwhile to the table, and are good value. They’re ones that I personally use and … Continue reading →

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Radio Time

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Kevin

I was in the chat room of the OfficialSWLChannel on YouTube when someone commented that the clock on their radio wasn’t accurate. I got out a few of mine and observed some a minute or so off, some more, but … Continue reading →

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Tuning, Muting, and Things that Go Chuff in the Night

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Kevin

Terminology one sees online isn’t always precise, and many people equate muting, soft muting and chuffing. I tend to get sloppy too. For the purpose of this article, here are the terms as I’m using them: Whenever someone asks a … Continue reading →

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XHDATA Launches Improved D-219

Posted on October 22, 2025 by Kevin

I bought the original XHDATA D-219 in February of 2023, gray, with a fixed 9 kHz tuning step on MW, topping off the MW band at 1620 kHz. I wrote about it: Ultra-bargain XHDATA D-219 AM/FM/Shortwave radio.

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Size Matters?

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Kevin

A snippet of discussion occurred on the OfficialSWLChannel YouTube channel. Someone commented in the chat that the Zhiwhis ZWS-C919 had a telescopic antenna almost a meter long! I replied, to some surprised reactions, that the Tecsun PL-990 telescopic was the … Continue reading →

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