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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However, had a D-808 existed at that time this would have been much easier because of the multiple bandwidths in both AM and SSB. Only below 3 MHz it’s not all that great on the whip, and that’s where the D-808 beats it – listening to top band (160m) hams works surprisingly well for a 25 inch whip.

I have the XHdata D-808 and find it a good radio for the money, I have no issues with battery life and have left it for weeks without use and still plenty of battery life. The D-808 has no such thing and that makes it at least as vulnerable to overloading from good conditions or big antennas as the PL-660 without attenuation.Received 4 weeks later – upon power up the display was defective – every other line on the display was out.

The filters are nice and on Airband is (for me) with the small speaker and more higher sound better to hear the conversion. Also, whatever portable you’re using, a good loop antenna will greatly enhance your chances for hearing longwave DX. It’s as important that we voice our gratitude to Sangean for its latest (possibly last) effort to revise the 909xxxx series as it is to Tecsun for offering no fewer than THREE superb world band receivers. Nevertheless, combined with SIX bandwidth options when in SSB, the fine tuning option on the 808 is a superb feature, not to mention that on my particular D-808 there is little to no “warbling” when carrying out the fine tune operation. The Tecsun’s (perceived) lower noise floor, better speaker sound, better tuning and built-in attenuator is countered by a much wider choice of filters, better fine tuning control, better portability and the better battery endurance of the D-808.Unlike the PL-660 and most other small receivers covering that band it has a squelch, which is by the way active on all bands. The tuning knob and the fine-tuning thumbwheel have quite strong detents, so they are not very prone to unintentional detuning. I find it hard to tell whether the D-808 is really noisier than the PL-660, or just lacking this permanent noise reduction. On pretty much all of the tiny shortwave portables, SSB reception comes with some tradeoffs and the D-808 is no exception.