Raddy RF919 AM/FM/SW/HAM/CB/Air/LW Radio With SSB! 1-30mhz Coverage, BT, SD recording and more!
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- Apparently when Raddy decided to enter the SSB radio game, they just kept saying yes when it came to what features to include. This sucker is packed! AM(MW), FM, UHF, VHF, WB, SW, CB, and HAM are all here. USB and LSB as well. That plus it can be used as a BT speaker, and can record radio to a micro SD card. It's a nice package that covers nearly every base you can think of, and more.
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I'm holding out for the next all band radio to include a coffee maker and a frozen waffle toaster. I need a "complete" field radio package. LOL. Nice Raddy though.... Thanks for the review.
At the rate they are going, it should be out next week or so.
Man, if they ever include a built in coffee maker…. TAKE MY MONEY! Lol
@@udx-294tn5 It needs to automatically add cream and sugar, if desired. Otherwise, it's a no-go! (My version of SSB...)
LOL! I don’t disagree with you… potential deal breaker for me too
Thats pretty handy all you need in a little radio thanks for sharing hope you and jenn are doing well
We are doing well, thank you for asking.
Curious how does it compare to the Eton 750 Elite? Two different leagues of radios but im curious if this $300 cheaper raddy keeps up? Keep the shortwave reviews coming!
In my opinion, the Eton is better. Not that this radio is bad, but the Eton is more refined
it would be cool to see how well it receives on the CB bands from your mobile, thanks for the review.
If I get time, I might have to try and film that.
@@FarpointFarms maybe lineup a few portables and test onboard antennas and a fallow up video with external antenna tested against a cb. My guess is the cb has better filtering in the radio for that band… those portables may be a good way to monitor the CB band while away from your transmitter
That's a cool little radio with really wide coverage! Thanks for the review.
No problem!
Thanks for reviewing the radio.
You are welcome
Eric I am glad that you are doing an informercial for this radio. I have one on pre-order. I should be receiving mine pretty soon. I will now know how to operate it. It is really loaded with features for the price. For the current solar storm check out 10 meter, 6 meters 54 mhz, and 2 meters during the day. They should be really active. At night especially late try out 20 - 40 meters. When the radio was first turned on the CW was the UK and Europe's newest Amature band just above the US FM VHF commercial broadcast band. The person was sending CQ CQ.
Thank for the tips on what to check and when. These solar flares can either make or break reception.
SSB is a huge deal ! Powdered up it's a stunning thing.
For many, SSB is a make it or break it kinda thing.
Thanks Eric!
You are welcome.
The OD green looks great. I may have to pick one up when they eventually go on sale
I do like that color as well, reminds me of old military gear
It looks and sounds really cool! Putting it on my 'down the road, save up for it' list of stuff i want....lol
I have a fund for those kind of things- My wish list items
Nice review on a great radio!
Glad you enjoyed it
Monitoring 121.5 MHz on the air bad will sometimes hear emergency traffic. Planes are way up there so it works well even in remote locations. Also 245 MHz is used for emergencies by military aircraft. And 123.45 MHz is sometimes used on air band for air to air comms, although not really legal unless it's over the ocean.
Thanks for sharing those frequencies, I am sure they still transmit even over land on occasion.
Just ordered mine from Amazon. Hope it works well.
I hope you like it
Just ordered one today.
Thank You for your video, this radio would be a good upgrade from my old Grundig.
I think it's got a lot going for it. It's a little compilated to figure out, but pretty cool.
I have never picked up long wave in over 25 years of shortwave. I was looking at a Raddy Rf750 and will see if you have a review on that radio before I order it. Thanks.
Morse code navigational becons used to use long wave. Last one I knew went silent around 1980
I am fairly sure that I've looked at that radio too. This one costs more, but it is a better radio.
1977 when I got my driver's license. The Decorah, Iowa Airport still had one going. The aerial antenna was not that big. Maybe 30 feet off the ground with a dozen redials hanging down 20 degree off vertical and a dozen redials level horizonal circling the antenna I had a AOR scanner that dipped low enough to pick it up and about 3 others. That scanner later was able to pickup 900 Mhz AM passenger phone call down links. Maybe for 20 seconds at a shot. But it was fun.
Longwave in Europe is fading… the few which remain decreased power recently, with 198 in the UK (BBC Radio 4) among the strongest
I had a 70 foot twisted copper wire going from the house to the garage out back for a SW antenna when i was a kid in the late 60s and my uncles Halicrafter tube receiver and you touch the dial and another station would come in and the radio traffic was very heavy with hundreds of tranmitters all over the world going 24/7 yet today there is nothing compared !
There are many unlicensed ham radio trancievers awaiting a true disaster and ham radios are only standing by right now !
It certainly isn't like the old days, but there are still a lot of signals to hear on SW.
It’s got a lot going on. Thanks.
Agreed, they really packing in the features
great review . lots to hear on SW. the LW CW you got on 153 KHZ is a bacon used in air craft navigation. this is the old system before GPS and used as a back up system . their is 2 HAM bands in LW as well. need a big loop antenna to receive better .Sam with EXT AM loop antenna . yes we got a G5 solar storm. NOAA has warnings out. northern lights seen in NY last night. pic's and video from across the US on face book and you tube. CB messed up with HAM bands . AM aircraft band is used a lot. may just need better antenna and they talk in short times . they quick and scanning mist most of them. 18650 battery is a world wide standard, The time station WWV does broadcast solar weather info . just listen long enough . 2.5 /5/10/15/20/25 MHZ on 24 hours from FT Collins CO. has Mail voice ID. If you hear Femail voice IC that station WWVH Hawaii. great place to start to check how the bands are doing. them time clicks and beep are linked to atomic clock. that the best time we have.
Overall, I'm happy with it. I'll be playing with this one for some time to find all it's secrets!
Radio Satelor Rumunia 153 MHz
It looks like a very nice radio
I was impressed with all the goodies they stuffed in there.
Hmm , nice reciever . But , I operated radios with bigger frequency spread . 30 to 75 MHz . And I know there are other frequencies that up to the kilohertz range , that aren’t commercial .
I’ve been looking for a receiver that does the whole spectrum of electromagnetic spectrum except radar . Can you think of any one that has that kind of thing ?
Radio shack used to have a scanner that covered most of the spectrum , and Tandy put blocks on the bands you not allowed to listen to . Like cordless telephone frequencies
Short of something like a Icom 7300, I can think of no other radio that would go past 30mhz.
this reminds of a 70s radio but digital me likey.73s to the family.
I agree, the key pad is helpful
You'll wanna test again tomorrow, your testing receive while we are still in a G4-G5 Solar storm
I will do that- I know that they said that it will last through Sunday. Glad it was not like the Carrington Event- We all would have been screwed
@@FarpointFarms Oh yea, same, it was the combination of the X class flares and M class flares that really ramped things up. I charged my emergency power batteries just in case there was any kind of power disruption. But things are still online, it just killed the HF bands for a couple days but things are going back to normal.
hey question had cb radio yrs ago got out of it n recently got back into it looking for a good radio with am fm and lower n upper side bands but not trying to spend 4 or 509 on a radio with good antenna any recommendations?
For a base stations the Antron A99 is good, for mobile the tram 3500 is a good choice.
My old Realistic Astronaut 5 still works like a champ. Don't know about the new fangled radios :) best regards chuck,
I looked that model up, I have seen them before but have never played with one.
Maybe no luck on AM scan because it appeared as if it says NW AM which is narrow bandwidth am generally 2-3 kc wife. It's primarily used for signalling in CW . Not sure but must be Wide bandwidth am option that's closer to 10kc wide
AM is never great hear do to all the mountains in the way and the fact that there are no big radio stations near me.
@@FarpointFarms you'd be surprised but they're all in the garage right now lol. Thanks Eric
This radio has a 20W speaker? Boom! How did it sound to you, the music?
I have very poor hearing (deaf on one side) so for me it sounded fine
Wow.... they sent you the good one. $269
Ha! Yes! I love these guys and I guess they felt like throwing me a bone. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it's fun!
Also if you have a 6 meter or 2 meter receiver, look for people operating SSB and CW during the aurora.
I wonder if it will be silence with all of the interference of it? That is one heck of a solar storm
@@FarpointFarms VHF is supposed to benefit from aurora scatter.
The radio is cool but a bit steep in price for me. I have a sdr with HF support for $50 bucks which is good for newbies to shortwave.
It is a lot of $$ for a radio, but It does have a a lot stuff jammed into it.
@FarpointFarms I agree. It's featured rich with cool stuff. Anyway, a great review of this radio. 👍👍👍
Thank You. What is the cost of one of these radios?
There should be a link in the description. I don't mention prices since inflation has gone crazy.
Nice radio. 👍👍
I think so with all those features
The tuning knobs look like deal breakers. They need to be mechanically solid and to use optical encoders. Also the sensitivity on SSB does not look good - 20μV compared to 0.20 μV on an IC-705.
Overall, I like it. I think reception is fine, but there is a steep learning curve to figure out all the many bells and whistles.
I’ve had mine for two weeks as of this writing and enjoy it but hate the manual which made mastering it much harder than it should be. Now if the sun would stop sending out CME which interrupt short wave and medium wave (AM) reception..😮!
WFM = Wide band FM NBFM = Narrow band FM.
73! Have a great day!
Thanks. I could not figure out the WFM mode. I agree that the learning curve on this radio is a bit steep. I am still figuring out how certain functions work.
@@FarpointFarms I am still learning the tricks on this unit also..😀!
73! Have a great day!
Does it have squelch for narrow FM?
I am not 100% sure, sorry
@@FarpointFarms found it out does. I'm liking this radio more and more!
Try an alligator clip on a long wire to pick up short wave radio. I used my old underground dog fence wire and run it outside. Works great
That is a great idea if you have one- Thanks for sharing
@@FarpointFarms I picked up a pack of alligator clips at harbor freight and I already had the wire. Clothes line wire should work also
Shame it does not have FM on the 10/11 metre band, FM would have made the set more suitable for European use.
Good point. Here In the states FM mode has been a flop. No one uses it.
WFM is just wide FM.
thanks for sharing
Can you let the intro song play a tad longer, as its a great part of your videos ... thx.
I have a video of just that intro song. Feel free to listen as much as you like
@@FarpointFarms thx
It's all very well these radios we would love to own if only it was as easy here in the UK as it is in the U S to obtain one over the counter even a basic AM F M set seems difficult for a shopkeeper to demonstrate at one shop I had to suggest putting batteries in only to be handed over to a red faced put out attitude of the shop manager please U S A come to our rescue Tandy..U K was our last Hope and gone it seems for good That is in the U S RadioShake
I miss RadioShack, I am sorry that it is as difficult as it is for you guys.
I am sorry to say that FARPOINTFARMSER, nor FARPOINTFARMER is considered a valid discount word on the link you provided. Price is not reduced. ???
Try this one: FARPOINTFARMS
WFM stands for Wideband FM .
Cool, thanks for letting us knkow
Lot of money for that radio
@johnd7400 Is there a cheaper radio that goes from Long Wave to 999 MHz?
With inflation, there is nothing cheap anymore-
@@FarpointFarms Ya Thats true.
Can't transmit tho ..kinda takes the fun out of it guess I'll pass.....I did want to see one in action ..thanks for showing us
Yes, this is only for receiving. I will say, they did pack it full of features.
HF was terrible for most people last night with the aurora, but I've noticed somebody commenting that medium wave AM was good.
I live in Eastern Wyoming and usually listen to Chicago AM stations when I drive to work early in the morning. I usually get fair to very good reception. This morning all I had was static. The only Am station I could receive was a local station in my town. I usually get Texas, Nebraska and sometimes California AM stations too. But not today.
@@binsbins1 Earlier last evening I was getting some signals on the 40, 30, and 20 meter HF bands. But 60 and 80 were unusable.
By midnight there wasn't much on 40, 30, and 20.
I'm in northeastern Pennsylvania.
I think the interference just killed every thing. I tried to listen this morning and nothing
Sirius XM was unaffected. I don’t know if that was expected or not.
@@binsbins1 I heard some people complain about GPS problems.
Nice review. I'm sure it's a great radio but for me a little pricy.
With inflation, everything is pricey.
Too expensive.
That is everything now with inflation. Even a dozen eggs is like $5
This radio doesn't have good aesthetics.
Sorry you don't like it.
tune mute on hof in not"wow" that sucks big time
If anyone can understand this sentence, care to translate?
@@FarpointFarms yeah "anyone" can translate when you missed something that other testers of tha radio apparently found that muting between the steps when tuning on hf.
2 numbers, NOT 3
Huh?
It's rubbish BTW ;)
Sorry you feel that way
@@FarpointFarms It really is, unfortunately.
For 269.00 on Amazon. No thanks
Always funny to see comments on my channel trashing radios for not having full coverage, or not having SSB, and then I get to see the comments when I finally show one that has all those features and people realize that adding all those things costs a lot of money!
@@FarpointFarms
Not to mention the inflation rate