Tag Archives: Eton Elite Executive

Santa’s Nice Radio list for 2025

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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Setting Multi-Zone Radio Clocks

The Problem I have 4, perhaps more, radios that have a capability to display both local time and UTC. They are: Eton Elite Executive, Qodosen DX-286/SR-286 and Sangean ATS-909. I don’t understand the setting process fully, and the manual didn’t … Continue reading

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Radio Ghosts and Other Things that Go Beep in the Night

Images My first shortwave radio was a Nanaola 10NT504, a receiver that uses superheterodyne technology. In that mode, a radio is tuned by mixing the incoming radio signal with a locally generated variable frequency carrier signal (from a variable frequency … Continue reading

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A Little More Radio: ATS Mini

One thing was painfully obvious in my Little Radio Review, the ATS Mini isn’t very loud. I have a solution, hooking up the radio via audio cable to my Sony SRS-XB20 speaker. The problem with that solution is that the … Continue reading

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MW antenna jack: who knew?

Radio manuals usually describe the external antenna jack as dedicated to bands above medium wave. Using an external MW antenna is typically accomplished by some sort of magnetic coupling. I think the first radio that I knew allowed the external … Continue reading

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Grundig G4000A: Observations Part 2

Shortwave I wanted to test a collection of “comparable radios.” Given that we’re comparing a vintage radio to newer ones, there’re not exactly comparable. The Tecsun PL-660, bought not long after my original G4000A, is the only one with similar … Continue reading

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Top Ten Portable Shortwave Radios for 2025

Most “top ten” lists online are garbage. I found a top ten shortwave radio list, two of which didn’t even receive shortwave! I’m taking the question seriously, and there are no affiliate links in what follows. When considering candidates for … Continue reading

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