Degen DE27<\/a> from China. Interesting little radio, I haven\u2019t had a good chance to put it through its paces yet but my initial impressions are the radio seems well built and fairly intuitive to turn it on.<\/p>\nHowever, all the instructions are in Chinese so luckily there was someone in my office who could set the language to english otherwise, setting up the radio is a nightmare! I will have to take the radio outside to test its performance as the office environment is useless to listen in.<\/p>\n
The box says the radio tunes from 3.2 mhz to 21.850 mhz however, I havent been able to work out how to make it tune out of the standard SW Broadcast Bands yet. Toggling between 10 khz and 9 khz steps for AM is easy as it setting the FM band coverage but I\u2019m yet to determine the SW settings. It appears tuning is only in 5 khz as well on SW.<\/p>\n
As for venturing into MP3 settings and recording, I\u2019ll leave that, it seems too much of a challenge! The clock and calendar, sleep timer, alarms are all fairly straight forward but there is an \u201cE-Book\u201d setting which defies description! It has a USB flash disc function and inputs for a micro SD card. Charging the supplied Lithium battery is via a supplied USB cable.<\/p>\n
The display is easy to read and attractive with excellent backlighting. I\u2019m not expecting stellar performance on any band, after all, it was a cheap radio (about 40 AUD with free postage) but it is built around DSP architecture. Only a single bandwidth is available and there is no SSB capabilities. The radio hopefully will be ideal to throw onto a backpack or pocket as a travel portable.<\/p>\n
If DEGEN read these comments, perhaps an English manual put online would be extremely helpful to allow users to get the most out of the DE27.<\/em><\/p>\nI\u2019ll comment more on the performance later but for now, the radio shows promise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Thanks so much for sharing your initial impressions, Phil! Please keep us informed as you discover more about this little radio!<\/p>\n
This reminds me that I have yet to put my Degen DE221 through the paces. Stay tuned<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Phil Ireland, who comments: I\u2019ve just received my Degen DE27 from China. Interesting little radio, I haven\u2019t had a good chance to put it through its paces yet but my initial impressions are the radio seems well built and fairly intuitive to turn it on. 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