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Grundig G6 Aviator AM/FM, aircraft band and Shortwave Radio, Black | 
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| Brand: Grundig
Category: CE
List Price: $120.00
Buy New: $99.99
You Save: $20.01 (17%)
New (2) from $99.99
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 5809
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 1.1 x 4.9 x 3
MPN: G6
Model: G6
UPC: 750254803147
EAN: 0750254803147
ASIN: B0014T5UM4
Availability: Pre-Order (1-2 Business Days)
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| Features:
| • | AM (520-1710 KHz), FM (87.5-108 MHz), Aircraft Band (117-137 MHz), LW (150 KHz - 510 KHz) and Shortwave (1711-30000 KHz) | | • | Set 9/10 KHz AM tuning; set FM tuning range | | • | Single Side Band (SSB) | | • | Dual conversion (1st IF - 55.845KHz, 2nd IF - 450KHz) | | • | Digital tuning with digital frequency readout (LCD) |
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Product Description
With the Aviator at your side, you?ll always have great listening options. Tune in to AM, FM, aircraft band or shortwave frequencies, including SSB, easily with direct keypad entry. Or, use the AUTO tuning feature to browse stations and stop on the next available frequency. You can also use D5 tuning to get a taste of what?s playing ? stop on the next available frequency for five seconds at a time. Use the international clock and wake-up alarms to keep you on schedule, wherever your travels take you.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 An unbeatable value October 7, 2008
Larry D. Wolken (Central Pennsylvania USA)
I've owned this radio since it was first introduced and I've owned maybe 30 or 40 portable shortwave radios over the past couple of decades. I find this little unit to be a great value BUT only if you're looking for the feature set offered. Obviously if you don't care about aviation traffic or SSB, you could do a lot better for the money. BUT in my experience there aren't any better value radios out there at this price point that do it all better.
The aviation band is just so-so in terms of sensitivity and overload protection from broadcast AM but I find the SSB remarkable. SSB signals are easily found with the fast dial speed and easily tuned in to "listenable" frequencies with the slow speed setting.
The shortwave broadcast band is very sensitive and fidelity with good headphones is quite good and the FM stereo audio is excellent again through earphones. The channel separation or selectivity could be better on the shortwave bands but it's not bad unless you have two very big guns right next to each other.
All in all if you're looking for nice small portable shortwave radio that can handily receive broadcast AM shortwave, SSB, AM/FM commercial broadcasts, the G6 can be a lot of fun at a very good price point
 Over Priced for Preformance September 7, 2008
G. Sargent (Ohio)
The Grundig G6 has a very nice feature set and is a very convenient size. The display is very informative and the radio is fairly easy to use, especially given all that it does. However, one buys a multiband radio like this to actually listen to it. Its performance overall is not in keeping with the $100 price point. Much better performing radio's are available at or below this price point.
My sample had significant overloading on the lower shortwave bands from local AM broadcast stations. Shortwave performance was ohterwise ok, but the unit was not as sensitive as other radios in this price range. Adding even a short external wire antenna of 15 feet only made the overloading worse. A major plus was it's SSB tuning performance ... far and away the best of the radios I've compared it to. AM BCB performance was ok but not as senitive as a Kaito 1102 or Degen 1103. FM performance was quite good. However the inter-station hiss was objectionable. As mentioned elsewhere, the AIR band is full of local FM broadcast stations bleeding through making it pretty much useless at my location.
So, this unit is pocket sized, is fun to use and has a ton of features but its overall performance will make it less pleasant to use ... especially if you happen to have other radios in this general price range to compare it to.
 Good Fun Radio, but you can find cheaper.... August 26, 2008
C. Hedstrom (Portland, OR)
I ordered this radio looking for something that would have a little more sophistication than my Kaito KA11. I like this radio, but in my experience it received the same stations off the whip antenna that my KA11 (a radio that costs half as much) received with a piece of copper wire strung off its whip. With an external antenna, the G6 was overloaded, showing full signal on nearly every station and getting a lot of static, noise and bleeding of other bands.
The air band had the same AM bleed that other reviewers describe. When I did get airband, I thought that it was boring. Obviously that's not the radio's fault, but it ended up being a feature that I would never use. The radio also has SSB but I couldn't find anything over the entire band other than weird stretched am stations and static after a week's worth of trying. I may have been doing something wrong, but I read the instructions cover to cover and looked on the web, and other than scanning the air, what can you do?
I bought this radio for better SW reception and it has pretty good SW reception (gets the major broadcasts like BBC, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Taiwan, CBC, UTC) without effort, just no better than the radio I already have.
If this is your first shortwave or want to give SW a try without hassling with external antennas, this would be a decent choice and you wouldn't be let down. However, Kaito's radios cost half as much, perform just as well, and include batteries and external antennas. They just have odd ergonomics and interfaces and hard to decipher instructions. I find those things a little charming. The only things that I prefer from this radio then my KA11 is the style and the jog wheel. FM and AM on this radio were very good, FM especially clear in Portland, OR.
 Small radio returned as defective August 18, 2008
Peter J. Lydon (Berkeley, California, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This small radio looked good, but soon began to turn itself off shortly after being started, and the volume failed to go beyond a very low level. These problems existed on both battery and AC power. After a phone call with the manufacturer, it is being returned this morning to Amazon as defective, and will be replaced, we hope with better luck.
Poor instructions but great sound August 1, 2008
C. Keeney (Magnet, IN USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Setting up the radio is a bit frustrating. There are quite a few symbols and numbers on the screen but no where in the book does it tell you what these mean. Normally most instruction manuals show what these are at the beginning of the manual but not this one. I also have read thru the manual and still have not figured them out.
The manual says that the radio can be powered by either 2 AA batteries or rechargable ones and neither were included. But 2 AA batteries were included. It also says earphones are not included but it comes with earbuds.
This might be a great radio if the instructions were any good. Even auto searching for radio stations is a bit confusing to me. It says there are 3 different search functions. One is stop, where it stops at each station it finds, the second one is D-5, where it stops only for 5 seconds and continues on, and the thirdly, auto tuning storage. I tried it all 3 ways and it never worked. I spent 15 mins trying to figure this out. And even though I was following the instructions, sometimes the button to select these functions worked and sometimes it didn't. Currently to find a station, I have to manually find it instead of hitting the autosearch arrow key and that's really frustrating.
I loved the feel of this radio as it feels like a fine suede. The sound is awesome, however, I had to stand in the middle of my kitchen and hold the radio. If I attempted to lay it down, the music changed to static.
I will update this review if I succeed in figuring out how to work the radio. I am really excited to try the shortwave, but as another reviewer said, the radio needs a special long wire antenna or 50 to 75-Ohm coaxial cable feed line.
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