RetekessV115 Shortwave Radio, Digital Radio AM FM, Shortwave Receiver with 1000mAh Rechargeable Battery, Presets, TF/AUX Playback and Recording, Bass Speaker, for Camping

I was looking for a small mp3 player with a speaker for when I do yard work or go fishing. This little radio is perfect. Sound quality is pretty good, loud if you want it to be, and there's a bunch of sound effect settings for the equalizer to try out, normal seems the best, but the jazz isn't bad either. Took some time to figure out with manual, bit of a learning curve initially, but it's not bad so don't get frustrated by it. Deleting station is a bit of a pain because I couldn't figure out how to delete all. Just buy a tf card of whatever size you want, power it on, connect to computer and it functions like a flash drive to load your music. You can change the play modes as well like random etc. I also love the ability to swap out the batteries using the BL-5C batteries which are cheap and solid. Radio works fine as well, but I don't listen to the radio much anymore.Anyway, portable mp3 player with speaker and a battery you can change out trivially for this price is a winner.

I was not expecting this small radio to be as good as it is!-Reception was excellent. I was able to pull in all the AM and FM stations I wanted, which other radios didn't pick up. (I did not try the SW.)-Sound quality is amazingly clear and good. The bass speaker really delivers, despite its small size. It's just mono, though (unless you use headphones).-I used apple wired ear buds, which worked fine (despite notes that said it wouldn't work with headsets).-The keys/buttons have a good positive click feel when pressed, so you can clearly tell when they're pressed or not. Really nice quality.-The only drawback is that the tuning and memory set up is a bit unusual. You press up and down buttons to scan through the saved stations, rather than each numbered button correspond to a saved station. It works fine for my needs.I am so pleased with it that I may get another.

Concerning the engineers who designed this thing--especially the the user interface--I have to think they were dead drunk when they designed the user interface. Either that or they had been abused as children and decided to use this radio to torture those who buy it and thus get even with humanity.I opened the packaging, removed the radio, and charged the battery. After that I fully expected it to work like all the previous radios I have owned, simply dial in a station and have it play, but NO! The system for locating a station and then connecting that station to one of the numerical push buttons is bizarre. I finally figured it out, no thanks to the manual; intuitive this radio is not. If you think you are a radio-savvy hotshot, this radio will give you a dose of humility.See those buttons 1-9 +0 on the front of the radio? You need to use those to enter the frequency of the AM or FM station you want to listen to. Really. The manual doses out information like the instructions given with a scavenger hunt. That is, not enough information for you to know what to do, just minimally helpful general hints. It's like the instruction manual is deliberately holding back information, trying to jerk you around.I finally mostly figured it out. Here are the instructions I wrote out on the back of the instruction booklet for myself:1. Enter frequency of station using buttons on the front of the radio (as described above)2. When a favorite station is tuned, push #5 (also labeled underneath as "memo") using a long press (not a short jab)3. As the "CH" flashes in the display, push the desired number (1-0 ) to assign the station you chose with the number 1-0 on the face of the radio.4. Then you need to lock into memory the station frequency with the button number you chose with a short duration push of the >II button.5. Repeat the steps above to set the rest of the stations you want to correlate with a numerical button 1-0.6. You can change listening to radio stations up or down the dial sequentially by pushing the I<< or >>I buttons.7. You can also change radio stations up or down the dial by pushing the button 1-0 that you set as I described above, the buttons associated with specific stations. But--and don't ask me why--it takes a full six seconds after you press the number of the station you want to listen to for it to change. You're gonna grow old waiting between stations. Pretty aggravating.But dang, I just can't stay mad at this little bas--rd. It's nice and small, compact, and it looks/feels well made, with nice haptics feedback. And this isn't just any ol' common small radio. It is also a digital recorder! Slip a micro card into its slot and it will record for hours! This is a big deal. It will record off the radio, or from your spoken words, or from an outside source, a source with a 1/8" plug or a micro USB plug. How cool is that. And during playback you can fast forward--fast back and pause. But good luck trying to get a good grasp on the various aspects of the recording function, same as with the radio.Another thing I like about this radio is the sound. It is very, very good for such a small radio. High volume potential and quite balanced and clear; an over-achieving amplifier and speaker.In summary, once I got a grasp on how it operates, I liked it. For its price, it is quite unique. But the user interface no doubt was designed by an alien from another planet. Be resigned to figuring out how it works.