Many thanks to SWLing Post contribuor, Charlie (WA2ONH), who notes:
A good price for the XHDATA D-808 on eBay right now. No connection with the vendor. Buy at your own risk.
Thank you for the tip, Charlie! Looks like the seller has a 99.6% positive rating–impressive for the volume they handle. I suppose the only thing worth noting is shipping time–if you opt for free shipping, it could take a few weeks to arrive.
The price–$106.00 AU or $77.51 US–is a great price for the XHDATA D-808.
Hello, in the article Best of the best: Reviews of some of my favorite portable shortwave radios , about the XH Data I can read “decent battery life from four standard AA cells”.
Is it another version or a mistake? Or it uses, always a 18650 battery?
Thanks, best regards, Helder Maia, Portugal
It uses an 18650 cylindrical lithium-ion battery.
Its Australiian evil twin, the Digitech AR-1780, uses AA cells.
The Grundig Eton equivalent model is the Satellit, even at the cheapest price on the Black Friday sale, is still more expensive than this price, and it is not smaller. Any smaller models do not have features to compare to this model. So what are you talking about?
I wouldn’t try this radio if you want a good radio try the eton or Grundig very good and much cheaper for the smaller model