D-328 Shortwave AM FM DSP Portable Small Multi Band Radio Stereo MP3 Player with Rechargeable Battery Earphone Jack Portable Multimedia Speaker with USB Micro SD Card Jack (Black)

The D-328 is a very good little radio. Unlike the digital sets that tune in 5kHz or 10kHz steps, this continuous tuning radio catches stations that may be missed with a digital radio. It's easy to quickly cover a shortwave band and locate stations. Tuning takes a bit to get used to, but once you do you won't be disappointed. The telescopic antenna works good, but an additional wire antenna can be clipped on for better reception. FM & shortwave reception is excellent, and AM is good, but not outstanding. The mp3 player works well; I loaded a uSD card with hundreds of old radio shows. Be aware that this radio is not stereo. This radio is small enough to take to picnics, camping, etc. My only complaint is the control lettering is molded into the plastic, and very difficult to read, although the operation is very intuative. Check out all the outstanding reviews on YouTube. I really like this radio!

A great little radio. It's been in my tacklebox and served on a number of fishing and camping trips and I've never had any trouble with it. Shortwave reception seems to be pretty good and the sound quality is better than you'd expect from the size. On a full charge and low volume you can start it up with breakfast in the morning and it'll go until bedtime, but you'll need to charge it the next day. It does take a while to recharge completely from dead. I haven't tried the mp3 functionality, just used it as a radio. It has a very long telescoping antenna for good SW reception. The fold-out stand in the back is a neat idea but doesn't actually work very well given that it's offset to the side; it will stand up but the slightest jostle will knock it down (just lean it on a rock)

I've had portable multiband radios over the decades, but (after one day, so far) this compact (3 x 5 x 1") unit is really a pleasure to have! Securely packaged - worked perfectly out of the box. Does not feel 'cheap.' Buttons are small, but not hard to operate. Easy to tune manually. Gets good aviation band reception in SF Bay Area (my main reason for purchasing). Also excellent local AM and FM reception with internal antenna. The manual (3 1/2" by 5 1/4", 23 pages, English only) has been criticized by others as hard to read or understand. It is small print, but readable by this senior. Instructions are complex because there are so many features built into the product. It suffers only slightly from "Chinglish" language expression. Some screen symbols (settings of functions) are very small on the 3/4" by 1 7/8" LCD display and thus difficult to read. It is very lightweight (8 oz with ext. antenna wire and battery). Sound quality is OK on speaker; even better using stereo headphones. It will take me awhile to learn all the built-in features, but so far - I say it is a winner, and highly recommend it.

I just got this. So far, in very limited usage, it seems really good on AM and FM. (UPDATE: AM DXing capability is there! Check the AM band out in the evening! I mainly listen to AM, and from what I had seen and read prior to purchasing, this radio does a great job for its size in resolving distant signals. I have found this to be true.) SW is not too shabby. A bit of wire attached to the telescopic antenna helps. It is a DSP receiver. So, you need to tune slowly so as to not skip over weaker signals. The radio is small so, you can quickly move the tuning needle all the way across each band. Again, tune slowly and be patient. It will be well worth it. This is a sensitive receiver that WILL pull a lot of stations in. I will add that I feel a tuning knob would probably just feel better on this radio (think Tecsun R-9012) than the wheel that it has. Certainly not a reason to decrease my rating, it is just a personal preference. The sound quality is pleasant and certainly acceptable for a radio of this size. It is not fatiguing at all. I highly recommend the D-328 to all enthusiasts who are looking for a good quality affordable pocket sized world band radio. This is a good choice for anyone that would like to get their foot in the door of Shortwave listening also. The only negative is that I would prefer that it could run on AA rechargeable batteries. I prefer them to the BL-5C cells.

Pros Great sound Also an MP3 player Sensitive DSP grabs stations, helping with tuning (see Cons) Frequency coverage extends well out of traditional bands Cons Bright strobing LED when playing MP3 files (I deducted one star because this is very annoying in the dark) Markings on the black plastic are hard to read The way DSP grabs a signal can make it hard to tune weak stations next to strong ones You have to remove the SD card to change MP3 files; connecting radio to computer only charges battery MP3 is play only Overall it's a decent radio, a value at the under $20 price

The executive summary: Excellent shortwave, very good FM, good AM (medium wave). Worth many times its price. I bought this radio because I wanted a good-performing, conventionally-tuned pocket shortwave receiver with comprehensive frequency coverage. I didn't expect perfection for this price, but this receiver pretty much delivers it. Pocket shortwaves like this were more common 20 or so years ago, with entries from Sony, Panasonic, etc. I have a few of those older ones and this equals or exceeds their performance on every signal I listened to. Plus, this radio has much better shortwave band coverage than any other conventionally-tuned pocket radio I've ever been able to find. This includes currently-sold units as well as the vintage ones. If you like the older ones just because you're into radios, you might want one of those, but if you're looking for a radio to listen to, this little XHDATA performs better. As mentioned, shortwave coverage is exceptional, and well-chosen. You get 4.75 to 22 MHz in 9 bands with very few gaps. And then there's the reception. One radio I compared this to is a Sony ICF-SW11 (a larger analog shortwave portable) and this little XHDATA beat it on some frequencies and equaled it on others. I couldn't find any signal the Sony could pull in better. Once a signal is tuned the radio holds it very well, too. Unreal performance for this size and price. All tests were made with the radios' internal pull-out antennas only - no external long wires. To me it's important that a portable radio is something you can take with you and listen to anywhere without having to haul along extra paraphernalia. This is a DSP radio so you do have to tune slowly to hear everything that's out there. That's a pleasure to do, in fact, because the tuning thumb wheel moves very smoothly and is nicely weighted. The dial is also legibly marked and reasonably accurate. Shortwave listening is also enhanced by the speaker/audio quality of this radio. You get a warm, mellow sound not unlike that of a larger radio. There is none of that scratchy "transistor radio" sound at all. This makes shortwave sound very good, as the warmth of the sound gives the impression of a clearer signal with less background noise and static. FM has very good sensitivity and selectivity. As on shortwave, it holds a station well once you've got it tuned in. Sound quality is pleasant owing to that mellow quality, as described earlier. This gets more FM stations than most other small radios I own, owing to good selectivity. It can lock in on a weaker station right between two strong ones, which most radios cannot do. AM (medium wave) is not bad, but performance on this band isn't quite at the same level as FM and shortwave. Weak signals do come in but they're very quiet - in a few cases not loud enough to be listenable with the volume all the way up. If AM is your main priority, you already know that a bigger radio (with a larger internal ferrite AM antenna) is going to work better for you than a pocket radio of any kind. This one is fine for local/regional AMs during the day, and of course the dial comes alive at night with far off stations, as on all AM radios. MP3 player works great and has the useful feature that you can advance 10 tracks at a time. Saves having to push the forward or back button dozens of times to navigate through the audio files on your micro SD. The rechargeable battery is user-replaceable, as it sits behind a regular battery door. The capacity is 1020 milliamp-hours, giving very long playing times before needing to recharge. (For comparison, an iPhone SE 2020 has an 1,821 milliamp-hour battery - and look at the exponentially higher power consumption of a smartphone compared to a radio.) Tuner and all other controls work smoothly. The volume control is especially nice in that it increases the sound level very progressively across its whole range of adjustment. (On many other inexpensive radios, the first third or so of the volume control's range does little, and then the volume increases rapidly after that, so it's harder to get exactly the volume you want.) Feels well built overall. The glossy finish makes the radio look sharp, but it does show fingerprints. You can beat this XHDATA D-328 if you're looking for a pocket shortwave receiver. Performs as well as or better than much larger ones, for a very low price, and shortwave band coverage is better than that of any other conventionally-tuned pocket shortwave radio I've ever seen.

Useless on HF band. Nothing but noise. I'll be returning this item.

Bought this for type c and micro SD use and surprisingly good for FM and SWB. Quality and materials seem decent. The tuning is good you have to go slow. May work it with a wire added to the antenna for shortwave. Dinged one star because mine came with the slider for the power and all that broken but I fixed it I think. Time will tell. UPDATE I have had this now for a little while. I bought an XHDATA antenna to go along with it and FM comes in crazy clear. Its a 23 foot wire. The other cool thing is the shortwave. It picks up some SW but its going to take some time and maybe running my wire out side and testing it. I get some stations but its very faint. Lots of religious talk on SW so be prepared for that if you are stateside. Overall I think 4 stars is fair as is. With some work and time you can get into more shortwave but not having a screen and being strictly analog esque, has limitations if you are wanting to do SWR explicitly. Still its really good. Bonus bluetooth speaker basically with the micro SD.