Sony ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM/FM Radio, Silver by Sony
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Digital camera reviews of Sony ICF-S10MK2 Pocket AM/FM Radio, Silver
Digital camera Review: Best $10 ever spent - Simple, portable and powerful reception
Summary: 5 Stars
I am pleased with this radio. For it's size and price, it does a wonderful job.Digital camera Review: Best 10 buck radio- hands down
Summary: 5 Stars
Remember many years ago when you got your first "transistor radio"? Well it's back again and working better than before. This radio is small enough to put into your front shirt pocket and yet pull in FM stations as well as a $200 stereo receiver! No kidding. The sound is what you would expect from a radio this size, but for 10 dollars this is THE one to buy.Digital camera Review: Best 10 bucks I've spent in years!
Summary: 5 Stars
BUY THREE!
I've never written an online review before but his radio is great and is worth the trouble.
I'm a Ham Operator and I restore tube radios for a hobby so I've spent a few hours listening to DX, I know crap, I know hype, and I know a miracle when I trip over one. I started looking around for a pocket radio to keep in my truck because sometimes I would be caught working away from the shop for hours without any news or music. If you're a radio nut you can guess what happened next. A month later, probably twenty hours online and more than a hundred bucks worth of pocket radios and I wasn't happy. I'd had fun and now had some radios handy around the house for "adequate" use (radios & led flashlights, can't have enough!). Even though I had run across this radio online and in reviews I didn't put it on my list of probables, It was just a $10.00 radio and I was limiting myself to vintage radios with discrete transistor designs or new IC designs over $30 or $40 dollars. After all I wanted a "good radio". I was pretty much interested in an analog radio because in this price range digital sets are usually noisey, battery hogs, and plauged by "birdies". Finally, I ordered one of these because "what the heck" ten bucks, if it sucks I'll give it away. When it showed up I plopped in a set of AA's tuned the dial and heard lots of stations, good sign. Any radio that has analog tuning with a dial thats two inches across is a challenge, but thats ok. Low and behold theres KGNC from over 120 miles away and it's 1500hrs(3pm). What the hay! Listen up buyers, This radio is TEN BUCKS and it can hear stations others can't. No one has learned how to put sensitivity, selectivity, and audio into one box this size but this radio is a miracle! Don't get me wrong this is not a Sony 2010 or a GE SRIII, but it's small enough and cheap enough to have one in every room of the house and in each car. And the speaker is good enough that you don't have to use phones. It has a telescoping antenna for FM. Some radios that cost 6X as much don't have a tele. ant., they use the headphone cables. That means even if your using the speaker you have to have the headphones plugged in or the FM stinks. Since this is still a new toy it hasn't yet made it to the glove box in the truck, I'm still playing with it. I live in the Panhadle of Texas and last night I listened to a talk show in Nebraska before bed; woke up and touched the dial and there was a great morning show in San Antonio. If this radio was $70.00 I'd give it 3 or 3.5 stars, for TEN to FOURTEEN dollars it is a true bargain! Some others may review this radio and subtract points because of selectivity or something, remember this radio cost less than a good burger and fries! I've spent thousands of dollars on radios; Collins,Icom,Yaesu,Sony, and others. I have better radios than this one but I've never had anything for >$15.00 that was this good.
Buy two or three, I did.
Jeff
Digital camera Review: Best AM reception I've found yet
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a couple of other small, inexpensive radios of this type. Had yet to find one as good as the model I got at Radio Shack 15 years ago. This one blows that away. I'm talking specifically about AM reception, namely the ability to dial in all available stations. This is the only one I've found that can easily receive all AM stations in my area, even at night when many of the signals drop way down. Clearly receives stations that I can't get on any other radio (car radios, stereo receivers, etc.).Digital camera Review: Best Little Radio Ever !
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be the best little radio ever ! And only $9.99 to boot ! Once again, Sony proves why they continue to be on top ! Excellent product for an excellent price. I bought FIVE of them , two of which are mine and three for that extra little stocking stuffer. Sound quality can't be matched for a small radio. Highly recommend this fantastic little Sony radio!
Amazon shipping was outstanding as well !