Elite Executive AM/FM/Aircraft Band/SSB/Shortwave Radio

It's a great little radio. It's very small and would be really easy to take anywhere, to a game farm for a little entertaimnet when screens aren't an appealing thought. On a picnic, on a road trip or some other kind of small adventure. It has a great tuner, it has great features which help make it much easier to use, for instance it can scan for channels which makes it easier to find air band frequencies which are in use rather than having to scan manually, arrive at a frequency which is in use but not in use at the moment that you scan so there's nothing to hear and no way for an uninitiated listener to know that they are on the right channel so to speak. It has every feature one could want from aradio and then some. It has a sleep mode so if you're listening and you fall asleep the radio will turn itself off after a pre-determined amount of time (The one sleeping in this case is you, not the radio). A radio like this, which has a reciever that can tune into almost any frequency used for radio by people is a little window on a world that exists but is otherwise invisible. One can listen to CB or Ham radio and there are still people who broadcast tiny radio stations which exist only for a few hours a week. Hearing the converrsations between airline pilots is interesting too. There are things that happen way up above our heads, interactions between people up there, that we would otherwise be unaware of, and they're interesting. It's a great toy and an interesting and fun thing to have. It has a squelch feature, so that even when the radion signal is weak or subject to inteference the little radio can make it more audible and clearer to hear. It is genuinely a wonderful device, if you want to hear what humans, even ones who are quite far away, are putting into the world using radio waves, this thing is definitely on your side. It's unquestionable a tool you want to use for that purpose. It does chuff when it's tuned but it makes up for that by having an autotune feature (seek). The flaw? It's not that it's not a high fidelity device and that the speaker isn't a powerful speaker, which is something that's possible today but wasn't possible when this device was originally designed (Also it's quite charming and a little nostalgic that the speaker isn't the same thing that one might get in a bass boosted sound bar). The flaw is to do with the way batteries are dealt with by the little radio. It can charge batteries but very slowly, putting a couple of L-Ion rechargables in it would seem to be a good idea. But it seems that the radio chews through them even if it's plugged into the wall outlet. I've had to take the batteries out and put them into a charger a few times when I unplugged it from the wall and found that the batteries were dead. It isn't all that light on batteries and will flatten a set in two days or so from fully charged (Better batteries might last a little longer, the ones I've chosen are eveready which while reputable, well better batteries do exist), but if the charge circuiit isn't isolated and the charger doesn't keep up with the rate of consumption then the batteried will slowly run down even if the device is plugged into grid power. If you do get one and do take it on n adventure which will see you away from home for more than a few hours I'd say take a few extra batteries along so that you don't take the radio out to let it play music in the backgrouond and find that the batteries are dead.

A few first impressions after two days of ownership: My very first impression was that aside from it's metal speaker grill and leather cover, this radio feels a bit plasticy (but considering its price point is still very acceptable and solid). It was great fun for me to work my way through the manual to learn what all the buttons did. The display is well thought out and can be read with or without the backlight. The device as a whole is never really off. When it is "off" it continues to function as a clock and even show the battery strength and respond to button presses. It has a lock feature to prevent accidental button presses. The station memories are broken into very manageable seven station chunks called "pages". The pages can be alpha numerically named. The FM reception is excellent and it can automatically find all the local stations and put assign them to quick dial memory position. It picks up the RDS data for the FM stations that broadcast it which is very nice. The AM broadcast band reception works excellent and I enjoy picking up DX stations in the evening with great success. Even during the day the reception works very well for stations that are normally difficult to hear on other radios. I love the look of the case (...and the fact that it even comes with a case ..two thumbs up!), but... I have fought with its functionality. It gets in the way since it it does not function well as a stand and has no speaker holes. Headphones cure the speaker hole issue (which works very well) but it would be nice if the case had better stand functionality. The antenna movement is very smooth and has two swivel points. The swivels allow it to extend vertically out from either the top or the left side of the radio as it is laying on its back. I have used the aux input feature of this radio on some of my QRP ham radio equipment that only has headphone jacks and it is a great and useful feature (A.R.S. AA7JC). The short wave bands work as expected for a radio in this price range and the SSB modes work perfectly. LSB and USB are selectable and fairly easy to use. I really like the filter bandwidth feature that is available on all AM and SSB modes (really works well). The battery life has been good in as much that the indicator still shows full battery strength after two days of playing. I was pleasantly surprised that the wall wart that came with my radio appears to be a classic analog type (with an actual transformer) which is rare these days. In the wall wart world, this is a sign of quality. Analog power supplies are better for radios since they don't generate digital noise when tuning the shortwave bands. One really cool thing about this radio is it's excellent display. It was carefully engineered to show the most possible information without draining your battery in the process. Some sort of memory management software accessible via bluetooth would be a great design addition for this radio (if Eaton is listening) but overall this radio delivers an excellent deal at its current price point. Yes, I would buy it again. edited addition: The radio really works well.. especially when taken outdoors away from electrical noise inside the house. One BIG thing I ran into was a dyslexic error in the owner's manual. Eton reversed the instructions on how to copy/paste a single memory location with the instructions on how to copy/paste an entire memory page. I included pictures of: 1-owners manual goof-up regarding copy/paste 2-the way the antenna is able to telescope from the side of the radio via it's dual swivel 3-The way that you can see the display even with it's back light totally off (under good lighting conditions)

This is a quality radio, as it should be for the price. It's solid, 17 ounces with batteries, and has a good heft. I wish the operational buttons on the front were a little larger for my fingers and aging eyesight. So far, battery life seems to be OK, with the backlight set to off. The manual could be better with more detailed explanations. It appears to have been written for use by those with more short wave experience than I have. There is one error that a previous reviewer noted on page 14; item 4 should be included in item 3 before pressing the PAGE/TIME button. The auto tune feature could be better on the short wave channels. It will tend to by-pass stations I think it should stop on. For me, manual tuning is more effective on the short wave stations. The external speaker isn't the greatest, but I do like the sound quality with quality earphones. The RDS feature is marginal, giving very little info about the particular program playing for an RDS station. If you use the RDS feature to set the radio's time, that time will change with each RDS station you tune in. I haven't had much success with the Single Side Band frequencies; probably need an external antenna for that. Reception seems to be very good, indicating a quality whip antenna, Overall, this is a quality, feature rich radio, intended for those with short wave knowledge and experience. I would recommend reading the manual thoroughly.

Muy buena calidad en sus acabados, excelente recepción, me gusto mas de lo esperado y llego mucho antes

وصل الجهاز وبه خدوش عن زر sync/ssb وهذ دليل التغليف السيء ، بما ان الجهاز يصدر للخارج كان من الطبيعي ان يكون مزود الطاقة الكهربائية يدعم 220v-110v على الاقل لذلك حصل على 🤩

Overall , A great radio for a enthusiast . Only drawback was the AC charger adapter. It is for 110 v a/c.

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I have a lot of experience with portable shortwave receivers, and the Eton Elite Executive is the best I’ve ever owned. Here are my pros and cons: PROS • Sensitivity in SSB (single side band) is similar to desktop general coverage receivers. The ability to change bandwidth is an advanced feature that can help in improving the intelligibility of SSB signals, and works well. Frequency stability (important for SSB) is very good. See CONS below for a note about entering SSB. • Shortwave broadcast sensitivity and sound quality is excellent. Bandwidth adjustment helps reduce the effects of adjacent channel interference and/or noise. Bands can be accessed quickly by the “F” buttons, or you can let the radio scan and automatically stop at a strong signal. • Medium Wave (AM broadcast) sensitivity is also excellent. Again, the ability to change bandwidth helps with adjacent channel interference. • Long Wave is not used much in North America, so I have no comments on it at this time. • The FM band includes RDS (Radio Data System) similar to that found in modern car radios. This identifies the station and the music playing and scrolls it in the display. While this radio only has one speaker, the stereo sound on headphones is very clean and full. • The aircraft band is surprisingly good. Portables I’ve owned in the past that include this band were terribly insensitive. The sensitivity of the Elite is as good or better than that of my ham radio VHF/UHF transceiver which also receives the aircraft band. Bandwidth filtering is also available on this band. • Squelch (to silence noise when no signal is present) is also included, and works on all bands. This is particularly nice when listening to communications (SSB or aircraft) that tend to be intermittent. It also serves as a ‘mute’ on FM to silence the radio hiss between stations when tuning the FM band. • 700 memory locations in 100 pages of 7 each to store favourite frequencies. Pages can be labelled (eg. AIR BAND, FM1, FM2...) • Line In/Out jack to play an mp3 player through the radio’s speaker or to record off the radio, respectively. • For someone who is interested in getting into short wave listening or aircraft monitoring for the first time, save some money and buy one of these radios instead of a more expensive desktop receiver. Performance is on par, although it may not have all the features found in a desktop. CONS • While the leather cover is nice, it’s only practical for protecting the front, top and back of the radio while travelling. I would have preferred a more practical soft lined pouch. • The manual is misleading on how to enter the SSB mode. It states that you have to quick press the SYNC/SSB/RDS button twice, but all this does is put the radio into SYNC mode. SYNC is the worst feature of the radio and is poorly implemented. It’s meant to help with minimizing the effects of fading broadcast signals, but is terribly distorted. Ignore this instruction (and avoid using SYNC for listening to broadcasts!) and simply quick press the U/LSB button above it to enter SSB. You can then toggle between upper and lower sideband with this same button. • After just a couple of weeks of gently swivelling the telescoping antenna about, it has become quite loose where it enters the radio, causing the antenna to wobble as you move the radio. • I sent Eton Customer Service a note about the antenna wobble and several days later, not even an acknowledgement of my issue. This may be an indicator of what to expect if warranty issues ever come up. • For setting the clock, avoid using RDS AUTO. Set it manually. If you use RDS Auto, the radio reads the RDS data from local stations (if they are transmitting this data) and automatically sets the radio’s clock. Depending on whether the station you are tuned to has properly set their time, you may find that going from one station to another will result in your clock time changing. This is the fault of the radio stations and not a fault of the radio. Overall, this radio is an excellent buy, particularly when the price is reduced on Amazon. It’s also generally cheaper than its competitors (TECSUN, SANGEAN) for radios with similar performance/features.